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I don't understand the OP question. Canada is much more attractive to live and much safer. Of course Mexico is great to visit as long as you be careful on avoiding certain neighbourhoods.
The Canadian side of Niagara Falls, is better than the American side.
That's because if you want to see both falls in all their glory, you need to be on the Canadian side. I kinda thought that this was obvious but I guess not.
It's also a fact that the US has far more other accessible natural wonders than Canada.
Asserting ones culture is asserting ones culture. If it were as easy as " just being " there would be no need.
Again, i don't think there is anything wrong with asserting and protecting ones culture...within reason.
Asserting it vis-Ã -vis an entity that's perceived as an existential threat (rightly or wrongly) is not the same as saying "look at me!" to the entire world.
And I'd say "LOL" to the idea that Quebec does this in any serious way.
What irks "other" Canadians mostly is that most Quebecers identify with Quebec primarily as opposed to with all of Canada.
It is what it is, but it's no more artificial and fanciful than any other form of national identity, which all tend to be fairly artificial or constructed to a degree except for some ethnostates like Iceland or Japan...
I don't understand the OP question. Canada is much more attractive to live and much safer. Of course Mexico is great to visit as long as you be careful on avoiding certain neighbourhoods.
more attractive and much safer?
why would a US resident move to Canada?colder climate,weak economy and its national healthcare system has a long waiting list,you could wait up to a year for major treatment.
One advantage is language,while in Mexico,you need to speak Spanish .
Folks retire to Mexico because its standard of living is much lower.
Here in Vancouver we get told that we sound like Californians. To a degree, I agree, but the big difference is in vowel sounds, and pronunciation of a lot of words, like fragile, process, permit ( in terms of a licence ) etc. Also terms can give us away. Things like " freezing" instead of "novocaine".
Also I find a lot of Americans drop the " t " more often in words like " interesting". You hear " inneresing " a fair bit.
Californians exposed to the BC "accent" never mistake it for a California one. You're right; it's in the vowel sounds, and certain vocabulary differences. There's the famous "a-BOAT" vs. "a-bout".
Yes, there's "inneresting", but there's also "IN-tresting".
I wonder what a US southern accent sounds like to Canadians. And Brits, as well. I wonder if the spoken English in some corners of the south (or Appalachia, as well) is even intelligible.
I wonder what a US southern accent sounds like to Canadians..
It's certainly instantly recognizable to Canadians. Caricatural in fact.
Though I'd argue that most Canadians can't tell the various US southern accents apart. They all tend to get lumped in together.
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