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Old 10-09-2014, 11:50 AM
 
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So, if you say that people in that region are "all the same", save for religion and politics, that's even more the case for Canadians and Americans, save for politics, right?

I don't necessarily think this, just following the logic.
I don't know. Canadian and American histories are very different. Plus, Canada is a very small country and the immigrations patterns over the last 10-20 years have surely ensured that the demographic make-up is different between Canada vs USA.

Overall point I was making is that consuming foreign entertainment and food doesn't make you foreign. Just because I eat Mexican Food and listen to Mexican music and watch Mexican movies doesn't make me Mexican.
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Old 10-09-2014, 12:01 PM
 
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I don't know. Canadian and American histories are very different. Plus, Canada is a very small country and the immigrations patterns over the last 10-20 years have surely ensured that the demographic make-up is different between Canada vs USA.

Overall point I was making is that consuming foreign entertainment and food doesn't make you foreign. Just because I eat Mexican Food and listen to Mexican music and watch Mexican movies doesn't make me Mexican.
There are some major historical differences (i.e. American Revolution and American Civil War) but Canada and the US were still founded by the same Europeans around the same time and developed in tangent over time in a very similar fashion. There is shared language, food, music, clothing and other cultural traits. So I'm not sure if they are "very" different on a global scale when looking at day-to-day lifestyle and interests. China or Russia is "very" different compared to the US and Canada. Austria and Germany are "different" but not "very" different compared to say Spain and Korea.
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Old 10-09-2014, 12:27 PM
 
Location: Canada
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There are some major historical differences (i.e. American Revolution and American Civil War) but Canada and the US were still founded by the same Europeans around the same time and developed in tangent over time in a very similar fashion. There is shared language, food, music, clothing and other cultural traits. So I'm not sure if they are "very" different on a global scale when looking at day-to-day lifestyle and interests. China or Russia is "very" different compared to the US and Canada. Austria and Germany are "different" but not "very" different compared to say Spain and Korea.
If we're going to get beyond the fact that all peoples have common ground somewhere, if you look hard enough, East and West Germany became different enough for it to cause problems in less than 50 years. And the differences went beyond full store shelves versus empty store shelves.
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Old 10-09-2014, 01:00 PM
 
Location: M I N N E S O T A
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Dear god, how inane a discussion is this going to become before you stop talking about hamburger for cry'n out loud?

Today's news is about Canada and it's people feeling less and less inclined to follow lock-step with U.S. on issues of security, foreign and domestic. Shouldn't that be of a higher import as a cultural indicator than the relative consumption rate of hamburgers?
Okay next topic.

Music
Canada Top 40 @ Top40-Charts.com - Songs & Videos from 49 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 30 Countries

Florida Georgia Line at number 9!
Looks like "New Country" is making its way to the Great White North...

Movies

List of 2010 box office number-one films in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Main topic is pretty much been covered, we all know Canadians are culturally very much like Americans (and that is not a bad thing)
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Old 10-09-2014, 01:01 PM
 
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If we're going to get beyond the fact that all peoples have common ground somewhere, if you look hard enough, East and West Germany became different enough for it to cause problems in less than 50 years. And the differences went beyond full store shelves versus empty store shelves.
Good point. An example of essentially the same people driven by two very different political belief/systems. Canada and the US have different political systems too, albeit not as different as Communist vs. Democratic ones. It is really a question of the "magnitude" of differences when talking about different aspects of culture - politics, food, clothing, music, religion, language, lifestyle etc. Some aspects are more different than others when comparing the US and Canada, many overlap.
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Old 10-10-2014, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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Well, don't we call it the 'weird' coast or something like that? And speaking of weird, I don't know if this is just a BC thing, but anyone heard of 'earthing?' I only know about it via the west coast and my step-grandchildren. Apparently what we used to call 'playing in the mud' is now 'earthing' in BC. Earthing Canada | Get Grounded. Feel Better.



Naw, this is different. Canadian weirdness is different than American weirdness. If anyone did the above except for Alberta, we would all think they lost their minds, regardless of our political views. Even supporters of any of the above views in other provinces, would still think BCers had lost their minds. It's just not our form of weirdness. See earthing. I don't know if it originated in Canada or even BC, but that would be in line with BC weirdness as perceived by the rest of Canada.
I've heard the term " left coast ".
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Old 10-10-2014, 02:01 PM
 
Location: Vancouver
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Dear god, how inane a discussion is this going to become before you stop talking about hamburger for cry'n out loud?

Today's news is about Canada and it's people feeling less and less inclined to follow lock-step with U.S. on issues of security, foreign and domestic. Shouldn't that be of a higher import as a cultural indicator than the relative consumption rate of hamburgers?
One would hope so.

There are some here though, that give the superficial too much weight when judging Canada's culture.
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Old 10-11-2014, 02:46 AM
 
Location: Canada
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Well, perogies and cabbage rolls are everywhere here. Therefore we have no culture of our own. We are clearly Eastern European.
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Old 10-11-2014, 02:48 AM
 
Location: Canada
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I've heard the term " left coast ".
I thought that was what Americans called their west coast. I thought we called ours something else. I could be wrong though.
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Old 10-11-2014, 05:08 AM
 
Location: Alberta, Canada
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Looks like "New Country" is making its way to the Great White North...
"New Country" has been here for twenty years, at least.
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