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I have lived in the USA for 19 years and have not had one person that hasn't kind of known about Canada. People ask about the winter and I say like Detroit - -oh okay. They get it. Canadians don't have a clue about the south east...(that's where I live) and have been known to say silly things or ask dumb questions.
The fish reference....many many many folks over the years (even before we lived here) that we met in the USA had been to Canada or knew someone who had to fish. Maybe that's why
I know plenty about Canada, I just know very little about their politics and from what I know about my fellow Americans here in the Northeast, this is extent of most of our ignorance.
I would also add that, judging by this board, many Canadians are incredibly ignorant about the US. In my almost 50 years, I have never met a single bible thumper.
that's just your (wrong) opinion. Plenty of cities have very cold winter yet little snow. So they are not winter? Snow is not a necessity for winter, just like thunderstorm doesn't naturally come with summer.
Try to convince those in Ulanbaatar that they don't have real winters.
So when someone from the US asks about Canadian winters, one thing they may not know, is what a SW BC winter is like.
I get you. But I live in New York state about 40 Trudeau Units a/k/a kilometers from New York City. Much of New York is virtually uninhabited wilderness. In fact in 1982 after my bar exam I was taking a 21 year old bar exam taker (he graduated high school at 15 and law school at 21 so not a stupid person) hiking about 100 Trudeau Units from New York City. Not a person and barely a road in sight. He asked what state we were in and I said "New York."
But let's be honest, most people, when you say "New York" think of the city and not the state.
I get you. But I live in New York state about 40 Trudeau Units a/k/a kilometers from New York City.
exactly what kind of nonsense is that? The US is the one that adopts a strange system that's not compatible with the rest of the world, not Canada.
For some reasons, Americans tend to think, if the US uses system A (even if it is the only one) while others uses B, other countries are wrong and silly. Trudeau units? Seriously? I mean, do you know anything about the rest of the world? Says someone who claims to be in law school at 21, exactly which law school admits such ignorant and arrogant students?
Of all the countries in the world, only three backwaters still use the archaic Imperial system of weights and measures:
Liberia.
Myanmar (a.k.a. “the country formerly known as Burma”)
of course not, but that doesn't prevent many people who live in NJ to claim they are from New York when their permanent address apparently shows a different state.
It's also worth noting (in case anyone had any doubts) that Pierre Elliot Trudeau did not invent the SI/Metric system.
Though I am sure he would have liked to have credit for something like that!
I almost burst into laughs when I see "trudeau units" as if Canada is the only weird country that uses the metric system. Why not "Hollande units" or "Cameron units" or "Abe units"?
And it is from some American prodigy who attended law schools at the age of 21.
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