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I've seen pictures on google images and google maps of Canadian small towns and Canadian cities and they look exactly the same as in the US. Also, I've seen videos of Canadians and met some Canadians before and to be honest, I would've never thought they were from Canada if they didn't tell me. They talked and acted like the typical american person.
Well, if I pay attention, the Canadians do say aboot instead of About, but I think for the most part they talk just like Americans. I think Canada must pay a bit more in taxes and have more social programs but I mean, you still have to work, it's not like its a big difference. I also thought Canadians could get into college for free, but they get loans from the government and they have to pay back with interest, just like Americans.
I think that maybe if the US had a little bit bigger government and had the metric system, Canada and the USA would be just about the same. The average person in say China, India, Mexico, Brazil or Nepal would think Canada and the United States are the same thing.
Americans and Canadians frequently can't tell one another aprt either. Canadians don't actually say aboot.
Anyway, which country pairs and the most similar depends on who you ask. Culturally, Americans and Canadians are virtually indistinguishable.
But then again, so are Serbs and Montenegrins, to the point that many say Montegrins is a nationality but serb is the ethnicity of both.
Norway and Sweden perhaps.
Then there is a threesome with Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
From my American perspective, Canada and USA seem more similar than any other pair but I'm sure those who live in any of the other pairs would disagree.
Very interesting answers. I wonder if there are any other countries that are very similar to each other, that are near each other.
I guess Guatemala and Mexico, but I would say mostly Guatemala and Southern Mexico since Chiapas used to be part of Guatemala kind of in the same way Texas was part of Mexico.
OP is correct. Canada and the USA looks and feels overall the same. However, there are still some differences (government, currency & bilingualism and the French in Quebec).
On google map and even in real life both nations looks the same and hard to tell the difference. However, in Canada they usually have single yellow line painted on the roads vs. double yellow line in the U.S., also no text on Canadian 'Do not enter' & 'Yield' sign. Funny but easy to notice
it's like that in most countries outside the US. See in the US, if you got a ticket, you could argue that the sign didn't SAY yield or do not enter.
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as far as numbers go contempt is ok in my book just kidding need to walk a bit nice site by the way
