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At the end of the day Canadians have a lot in common with Americans and act like Americans. For some reason Canadians on here think that all americans act like we are from the south. New England, the midwest, and western Americans all share great similarities with Canadians. I've travelled internationally and no matter how hard Canadians try to deny how close our people are culturally, the rest of the world shares your same views.
That seems to be a common belief among many on these forums beyond Canadians. Many don't realize that the US varies greatly in culture from place to place at times.
Anyway, the Midwest and west coast are the most like Canadians and I can't imagine Canadians being more similar to British being that they're so similar to these parts of the US.
As a proportion of population. Don't forget Canada's overall population is about 50% greater than Australia. Australia's foreign born population is now over 28% of the total, while the figure for Canada (2011) was 20.6%
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I think we view Canadians and the US as North America, Canada cold but stunning, the US just a mixture of sun, snow, prairie and Elvis. I've only been to Florida ! I assumed Canadians had a bar not pub culture, would love to check out Canadian pubs�� Canada does seem to have an old world woolly view of Britain, a shame because we are trendy and sporty, I don't know any Hugh Grant or Colin Firth lookalikes, tonnes of Jason Statham lookalikes. Still whatever floats your boat
Britain has changed a lot, it is more full, more stressed and violent sadly. More in comment with the 1700's. A lot of the world would be shocked at how gobby the UK is, a lot of polite reserved Americans ( most are ) can't seem to handle it. But we are more dynamic for sure
Britain has changed a lot, it is more full, more stressed and violent sadly. More in comment with the 1700's. A lot of the world would be shocked at how gobby the UK is, a lot of polite reserved Americans ( most are ) can't seem to handle it. But we are more dynamic for sure
More dynamic than you used to be or more dynamic than the Americans?
At the end of the day Canadians have a lot in common with Americans and act like Americans. For some reason Canadians on here think that all americans act like we are from the south. New England, the midwest, and western Americans all share great similarities with Canadians. I've travelled internationally and no matter how hard Canadians try to deny how close our people are culturally, the rest of the world shares your same views.
Just to let you know, that's what 'official' Canadian propaganda drums into our heads from birth, which is that we are supposed to be different from the US in some indefinable way. I personally never bought that line of nonsense and I'd say most people from non-United Empire Loyalist stock don't either. Canadians are firmly north americans and we have no qualms about that. When I travel and encounter americans, I often don't even bother telling them where I'm from; as far as I'm concerned, I consider myself to just be from a different region of NA.
That said, we're more in line with a Massachusett's or Wisconsian view of government as a levelling institution that ensures peace and orderliness within society. I'm politically involved personally to remind our self-absorbed public officials that one of their principal tasks is to gather public funds and disperse them to those who cannot look out for themselves due to poverty or limitations imposed on them by some infirmity or another. That doesn't mean, though, that our governments here effectively fulfill their obligations to the indigent; like in most places of the world, officials just love to court the wealthy and privileged (because they want to end up as one of them I imagine). I'm at heart a socialist.
Authentic British pubs are quite rare in Canada. Very few of them for example serve British-style pub food. It's all stuff like Buffalo chicken wings and nachos.
I think we view Canadians and the US as North America, Canada cold but stunning, the US just a mixture of sun, snow, prairie and Elvis. I've only been to Florida ! I assumed Canadians had a bar not pub culture, would love to check out Canadian pubs�� Canada does seem to have an old world woolly view of Britain, a shame because we are trendy and sporty, I don't know any Hugh Grant or Colin Firth lookalikes, tonnes of Jason Statham lookalikes. Still whatever floats your boat
I'm in 32C heat right now, just outside of Vancouver. I could use some of that cold.
Our pub culture, albeit different, is ingrained enough in our culture that even though we are officially metric, we kept the old imperial measurement for a pint of beer. It's like it was a sacred thing.
There was a lot of fuss made about establishments advertising a pint, that wasn't 20 imperial oz. It's illegal to do so.
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