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This was inspired by a comment made on a thread about Canada and the US. A poster said
"All that conceit, corruption, deception, and murder in American politics. That's why we can come up with awesome shows like House of Cards for your viewing pleasure "
When in fact the original show was British and based on a book written by a British author.
It got me thinking about some things Canadians took credit for in error. Like the invention of the zipper.
So? What things have you or your country claimed to be yours…but turns out, wasn't?
The entire country believes that Santos-Dumont invented the aeroplane. In USA, a lot of people believe that the Wright brothers invented the aeroplane. But in fact the aeroplane has not one single inventor.
According to my knowledges, the first studies about aviation began with Sir George Cayley, in Britain. The 'Eole' of Ader was the first heavy-than-air machine to fly by self propulsion. What Santos Dumont created was a mechanism of steering machines across the air, but he used balloons, not still aircrafts. The Wright brothers were the first to build a steerable aircraft, and later Dumont built a steerable aircraft with self propulsion (the "14-Bis"), with a public demonstration in the Champ de Bagatelle, in Paris.
There is always some disagreement between Canadians and Americans over Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. If you want to make things even more complicated you can even throw Scotland/UK into the mix.
The Canada-US thing also exists with respect to James Naismith and basketball.
There is always some disagreement between Canadians and Americans over Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. If you want to make things even more complicated you can even throw Scotland/UK into the mix.
The Canada-US thing also exists with respect to James Naismith and basketball.
True, but those are things that people argue over nationality, rather than the person. It's more of a grey area since both arguments have some weight. Naismith was Canadian, but he created basketball while in the US..so the discussion usually ends with the facts that basketball was invented by a Canadian, while living in the US.
The Bell thing was discussed in another thread….don't want to start that one again here.
Remember the ad slogan "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet"? It was meant to convey the "American-ness" of the Chevrolet brand.
But baseball was invented in England.
Hot dogs are German in origin.
Apple pie was "invented" in multiple European countries and subsequently imported to the US by immigrants from (among other places) Sweden and Holland.
And Monsieur Chevrolet, though he did live and work in America, was Swiss.
Remember the ad slogan "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet"? It was meant to convey the "American-ness" of the Chevrolet brand.
But baseball was invented in England.
Hot dogs are German in origin.
Apple pie was "invented" in multiple European countries and subsequently imported to the US by immigrants from (among other places) Sweden and Holland.
And Monsieur Chevrolet, though he did live and work in America, was Swiss.
But where did they say "WE INVENTED ALL THOSE THINGS!!"
no where, sorry
I think its quite obvious that Baseball, Hot Dogs and Apple Pie are all large parts of American culture (which obviously is what they are trying to get at)
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