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[Dome Vans]

[Adventurer]

[quote="Geckoman"]Out of all the countries in the world, do you know which country has the biggest identity crisis of them all? Canada!

Canadians have a HUGE identity crisis. They have the biggest identity crisis out of all the countries in the world. In fact, their identity crisis is so huge that the word "Canadian" should be put under the definition of "identity crisis" in textbooks. Being Canadian is a textbook example of what it means to have an identity crisis. Nobody suffers more from having an identity crisis than Canadians.

If you ever spend much time with Canadians, particularly if you have gone up and lived among them in their country, you will discover a people that have a huge identity crisis. They are wantabee Brits and will praise England ("London is the greatest city in the world," etc.). After all, they still have the Queen of England as their head-of-state (and whom still has legal power). One would think that the head-of-state of Canada would at least be a Canadian. But in reality they are just like Americans. But Canadians want to prove that they are not American and they do this by resorting to anti-Americanism. So in their attempt to prove that they are not American they bash America. But in reality Canadians are so much more similiar to Americans then they are to Brits.


[If you want to say that Canadians and Americans are similar they are in many ways, I am sure.. They are in many respects similar, but they are not just like Americans. You can say they are in some ways a cross between the mindst of Scottish and British Europeans and Americans. You completely discounted the British influence just because Canada is in North America. Canada was basically part of England until 1937. Americans are similar to Canadians and Canadians are similar to them, because they are from the same continent and they were both originally part of the British Empire. Also, you discount the French influence in the country.

By the way, Australians have the Queen; she is not Australian. There are major similarities and differences between Americans and Canadians on average and most people get along.

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[ardis]

I wouldn't say they figuratively bow down to foreigners because they totally trash talk us when they think we aren't listening. I don't speak Korean but when I'm out with my Korean friend, she says that she can sometimes hear Koreans making fun of foreigners. A bartender in Hongdae even told my boyfriend that he needs to learn Korean.

Anyhoo, I think a lot of foreigners get this idea that they're hot sh*t when they're in Korea. I worked with this blonde chick who was by no means my definition of attractive or even cute, but she always went on and on about how Korean women have this inferiority complex and that she just *knows* they all are *so jealous* of her blonde hair. "I mean...like...why do all these Korean women feel so inferior to us? Like...they should just, you know, like, appreciate themselves instead of like, being soooo jealous all the time." Babe, no one was jealous of you. Trust me.

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[Yu_Bum_suk]

[anyway]

I N V U!!

[nicholas_chiasson]

Unless you are in Canada or Korea, you'll meet 10 americans for every canadian...and thus one is more likely to meet a crazy american...because if 30% of people get on your nerves...You have to meet 30 people to find "one canadian idiot" but you'd find 9 american ones. This is hypothetical though.

[Dome Vans]

Problem with that Nicholas. If you're out on the town and you see a bunch of 'north Americans' absolutely leathered, being weird, having a fight etc and you have no idea who they are, but hear the accent, you'll assume that they are from one or the other. If they're being loud and abusive then most probably American and plain wierd then probably Canadian.

I'm basing this on assumptions. Which make an ass/ out of u/ and me

Good bank talk that.

[meangradin]

To Geckoman

First, look up "tautology" in the dictionary. I think you will find it helpful in the future when you try to produce a piece of writing.

Secondly, people who speak in superlatives are , well, dull. "Of all the countries in the world the biggest..." Come on; have you been to all the countries in the world? You know going from Texas to Arizona is not international travel, don't you?

Thirdly, and this might surprise you, but some Canadians actually might think that Canada is a better country than, hold your breath here, the USA. How crass! Don't people know that it's a subjective truth that the USA is "da bomb." So what that Canada cares about its citizens demonstrated by its decent and available health care, etc...

Or maybe they are just having a laugh at the Americans expense. You make it sound that on the news every night we have a segment about how awful the USA is, and how much better Canada is. When in fact, we get taught this everyday at school; anti america 101.

You know we are connected (in a geographic sense), so you would be the most logical country to poke fun at; especially since the Bush run in office.

Also, I suspect most of the Americans in Korea are liberal democrats; you know, based on that whole Republican attitude that the USA is so great that one never has to leave. In fact, isn't it unpatriotic to have a passport these days? But I digress. My point is that many of the Americans that I and my fellow Canadians (in our group) meet share very similar views, so there is no genuine bashing; at least this is the case in the circles I travel.

But anyway, there are obnoxious Canadians and Americans; just ignore them.

Oh, and to answer your question about what do you get when I mix a British wanterbe (your spelling?) with an anti american [Canadian], you get a dual UK-Canadian citizen.

[Privateer]