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sundubuman · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

It's a current events forum. I've taught ESL for 9 years, it's the last thing I want to talk about.

sundubuman · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

yu wrote

It would be interesting to ask educated, un/poorly employed Americans who also pay a fairly high rate of taxes and also often have to put up with a lot of PC crap in a country swarming with fat chicks why they *wouldn't* consider a teaching job in Korea. "Uh, don't you need a passport to do that? ... isn't Korea dangerous? ... like, aren't they communist? ... I dunno, sounds weird..."

You're right about Canadians and Americans being far too similar, but the knee-jerk negativity towards life abroad is far more common in one than the other. On the other hand, most of the Americans who do come over (with a few noteable exceptions) are a lot diffferent from what you'd find at, say, the Fourth of July festival at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park.

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You just dig and dig don't you? Swarming with fat chicks?

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park????

I'm guessing you are a big supporter of the Nunavtian National Liberation Front.

I'm sure, beneath it all, you are a decent person, but frankly, you and your spreading anti-American stereotypes among young Koreans makes me sick.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

shortskirt_longjacket · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Pro-American Candain

canuckistan · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:

Pligganease wrote:

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Yu Bum Suk is basically the intellectual equivalent of Dulouz or Sundubuman. This should be kept in mind when deciding how much time and energy to devote to responding to his posts.

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sundubuman · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

30 million is only 10% of the American population. I would bet that a much larger percentage of Canadians visit the states every year.

sundubuman · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

the following is from an August Economist article

But they are not following a trend. Americans are travelling abroad less, and Canada is no exception. Americans made almost 10m fewer trips to Canada in 2004 than they did in 2000. Hardest hit is Ontario; Americans made up 95% of visitors to the province. (Alberta and British Columbia rely more on Asian visitors and Quebec looks east to European tourists.) William Fatt, the boss of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, which manages a string of posh hotels in Canada as well as London's Savoy Hotel, said his group's profits would be lower this year because the strong loonie and border hassles were keeping American customers away.

The Ontario government is surveying potential American tourists to find out why they are staying away. Border issues were the main reason, but respondents also mentioned the SARS respiratory infection, which hit Canada in 2003, mad-cow disease, terrorism and the fact that Canada recognises homosexual marriages.

The latest survey contained two other findings that suggest many Canadians and Americans will not soon go back to their previous friendly habit of dropping in on each other. One is that America is phasing in a new requirement for its citizens travelling to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean to have passports. Since only 34% of Americans over the age of 18 have a passport (compared with 41% of Canadians), tourism officials north of the border fear that potential visitors will be deterred by the extra paperwork. More worryingly, respondents gave anti-Americanism among Canadians as the second most important reason they were inclined to stay at home. Greg Hermus, of the Canadian Tourism Research Institute, an industry body, says that Canadians have similar fears about American attitudes. ��Both sides feel less welcome in the other country.�� The change in travel habits may be much more than a passing blip.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I grew up in Michigan.. there are 3 bridges to Ontario.. my parents live somewhat near one.

The mass majority of those going across back and forth have either Michigan or Ontario license plates on their cars. There are also continous lines all day and night - many of them commerce-related semi-trucks as well.

In short, its not a big deal for people in Michigan to just drive across to save money on whatevers cheaper on the other side (and vice versa) on a very regular basis. It also makes a good Sunday drive to drive up the other side of the shoreline.

In short, I'd be extremely suspicious of these 30 million visits by Americans as unique visits representing 1 person each.