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Funny how Americans don't feel the need to write articles illustrating how we are better than Canada. I'm not a psychiatrist but that would indicate to me the presence of an inferiority complex.
Btw, the current unemployment rate for the US is 4.6%, for Canada it is 5.6%.
A most interesting article, which the image below does a good job of summarizing. By almost any metric that matters, the thing that has been the psyche of Americans that the "American Dream" was something to aspire to and one that was never ending, it is clear that things have changed.
The erosion has occurred over time, but it seems like in the last 20 years, it has declined in reality of being achieved.
Less earnings, less corporate jobs, less population, SNOW, outrageous cost of living. I'm out. I'm hoping to move to Liberia one day soon, that's a real example of the American Dream.
I have noticed this, and written previously on the topic. These are excerpts:
Written by me on April 7, 2007:
I am staying in Niagara Falls, and just finished an intelligent, though slightly liquor-stoked conversation with an Ontarian. He asked why Americans in general and Bush in particular doesn't show Canada and Canadians more respect.
I think these are entirely the wrong questions. I pointed out that I met a Peterborough, ON school teacher who did not know what happened at the Plains of Abraham and didn't know who Montcalm and Wolfe were. I also asked why, if Canadians are not proud of Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach (Normandy), why should Americans show more respect for Canada than it does for itself.
I am currently reading David McCollough's 1776, about the founding of my country. It reminds me that people had to fight for their rights, initially, as Englishmen and when that became untenable for total independence.
History and circumstances were kinder to those that followed. Great Britain learned, albeit the hard way, that subjugating a free people is an impossible and unsatisfying task. The birth of Canada, Australia and New Zealand as free countries was quieter and far less traumatic. It also did not generate the impetus for unification and national pride.
I feel, as an American that Canada has more than earned the right to the same pride that Americans feel. You earned it at Vimy Ridge. You earned it by joining WW II immediately, much to the shame of my country for abstaining. You earned it at the Canadian embassy in Iran in 1980. You earned it with your help in Miami in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew and in New Orleans in 2005 after Katrina.
You have a great country. Time for a bit brassier pride!!!
Finding one person that doesn't know some history doesn't reflect on a nation. Canadians have pride --it just isn't as demonstrative and loud.
For me it is like the church where the parishioners yell and jump and down and Amen the preacher compared to a mass where the parishioners answer in unison -- never speak out of turn, etc. The second church parishioners are just as devoted --just not as loud.
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