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[jhuntingtonus]

I've long had interest in how Canadians see themselves, and how much their identity is mainly from not being the US. I came across the following interesting, and I thought hilarious, quotation from London's Times Literary Supplement, something called "Letter from Toronto":

"Canada is one of those happy places where - in Voltaire's phrase - there it no history, and nothing ever happens: no wars, no earthquakes, only a few plagues, and no Monica Lewinsky. In fact, the whole point of Canada, and of its system of government, is to prevent things from happening. And, if anything does happen, to pretend it didn't."

Canadians, what do you think? What sets aside Canadians from others?

[8 years down]

[D.D.]

Maybe we focus on what is common between us and other nations. That might explain while in a backpackers the canadians tend to sit and talk with most nationalities and the american will quite often be sitting by themself reading a map for the next days tour.

Being canadian and have lived away from canada for any years I find canadians I meet just like any other country in that some are cool and others are idiots.

I always kind of feel judged by Canadians and think they like to try to use their intelect to act superior to others. Canadians are like the shy person who masks it by acting superior to others.

Canadian women have a complex about being fat or becoming fat.

Canadians also tend to supress their emotions. I remember when I first left canada and worked in an italian restaurant I was always scared the Italians were going to kill each other because they were so emotionally expressive.

Canadians in their late teens and 20 's also think it is cool to waste themselves with dope and alcohol. Dope is a huge problem in canada and people accept it as cool and normal rather than seeing it as a supresive drug.

Certain canadians think canada is the bees knees and are not open to hearing about anything outside canada and if they do travel they wear canada clothes and talk all things canadian.

Canadians act very nice but believe me they can be two faced.

Canadian customs thinks canada is so great that they treat you very badly if you spend to many years outside canada. I think this sums up how the average canadian thinks canada is the best country. So when i return to visit i get treated like crap by some people and customs because I must be confused to not spend so much time in canada.

canadians are smarter than americans in many ways and will be making fun of you if you are american and you wont get it because you are not smart enough-haha.

[JBomb]

Canadians do have a huge superiority complex when it comes to the USA. A lot of it is because we constantly have to try to come up with ways that we are somehow different than the USA when really there is not that much at all. The WE ARE BETTER THAN YOU SO THERE is kind of all we got. Being stoned and in a coma is a perfect way to sum it up though. Nothing happens and everything is so slow you feel like you are running in mud and hardening cement at the same time. Even its intellectualism and attempts to portray itself as intellectual is designed to send you running in endless circles. It seems to make us happy though. As long as we can shout out loud that shit is shit and crap is crap and we are not American when we pretty much are it makes us feel better and content to go back to doing nothing.

[D.D.]

[riverboy]

Were kind of like Americans with better beer, better hockey, better weed, higher taxes and of course...........TUQUES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuque

[Quack Addict]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFs5l9K--7M&feature=related

[Underwaterbob]

Canada doesn't have much, if any, of a uniform national identity. It's the second largest country in the world, the 36th most populous, very culturally diverse and a mere 143 years old. A lobster fishing east coaster has little in common with a Quebecois businessman has little in common with a Torontonian Muslim Imam has little in common with an Albertan oil baron. Give us another hundred years and three times the population and maybe some kind of congruity will pop up.

[Steve_Rogers2008]

someone once said the best time to invade Canada is during "Hockey Night in Canada." hopefully Don Cherry would be available to lead the war effort for 'em....


too bad he hasn't been able to survive a coup and take over Canada. imagine if he became the first czar of the Great White North...

[Seoulio]

[Fox]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Captain Corea]

[D.D.]

[D.D.]