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When I was in Canada, I just recognized that Canadian Cities completely look like US Cities. They just eat burgers, fries, and for breakfast: hushbrown potatoes, biscuits, pancakes with syrup, drive automatic. So, Canadian Guys, what's left from Britain? You still have the Queen of England. What does she say about that?
When I was in Canada, I just recognized that Canadian Cities completely look like US Cities. They just eat burgers, fries, and for breakfast: hushbrown potatoes, biscuits, pancakes with syrup, drive automatic. So, Canadian Guys, what's left from Britain? You still have the Queen of England. What does she say about that?
Fish and chips, silly-sounding shortened words (e.g., "brekkie"), a national anthem that's not about war.
Fish and chips, silly-sounding shortened words (e.g., "brekkie"), a national anthem that's not about war.
The national anthem isn't from the British, it is from Quebec, an old franco Canadian song.
The anglo Canadians used God Save the Queen well into the 1960's but since then they joined the franco Canadians in using O Canada as the official song.
When I was in Canada, I just recognized that Canadian Cities completely look like US Cities. They just eat burgers, fries, and for breakfast: hushbrown potatoes, biscuits, pancakes with syrup, drive automatic. So, Canadian Guys, what's left from Britain? You still have the Queen of England. What does she say about that?
Anglo Canada was founded by the losers of the American revolution called the loyalists.
They betrayed the other Americans by supporting Britain's empire and even still they ended up losing.
They had little other choice than to settle to the north in Canada where they formed a rival, significantly less-successful version of Anglo America.
Ironically this Canada came to depend on the Americans for everything from economic basics to the latest trends.
This is why anglo Canada appear to copy America, it's because they do so jealously, and also accounts for anglo Canada's renowned inferiority complex.
Anglo Canada is the less successful relative who made a few questionable choices, and now they are forced to inhabit the barely habitable northern backwaters on the border of the once rival turned success-story.
For example, Canada has blatantly copied several American holidays. Thanksgiving, Independence Day (Canada Day), Memorial Day (Remembrance Day), and on goes the list.
You could say that the patriots were the traitors because they rebelled against Britain, while the loyalists remained, well, loyal. Also, loyalists were persecuted by patriots after the war, so they fled to Canada. And politically, Canada strikes me as much more similar to the UK/Australia/New Zealand than to America.
America and Canada are similar in a lot of ways, but I wouldn’t call Canada a clone; their mindsets are different. For instance I find that a lot of Americans think of themselves as future millionaires and therefore are more reluctant to increase taxes on the rich, while Canadians tend to be content with just living a modest, decent life, just to name one example.
BTW what’s up with all the Canada-bashing, America-praising threads lately??
The national anthem isn't from the British, it is from Quebec, an old franco Canadian song.
The anglo Canadians used God Save the Queen well into the 1960's but since then they joined the franco Canadians in using O Canada as the official song.
The French version is also a bit more belligerent.
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