Heh, college students will sign any petition that comes before them, and sometimes even pretend to care right before they go out that night to get wasted and hopefully "get some"
Some Americans know a great deal about other countries as we're the melting pot of the world, but I imagine the majority doesn't have time to spend learning about our neighbors to the north. You think the majority of Canadians know who General Zachary Taylor was? I bet more people in Canada and America know what ghetto booty means. Just a quick point to prove the history of ones culture isn't the most common knowledge to have.
Cultural Relativism is bullshit.
I do like the use of the word ignorant though, because we are definitely that in the purest meaning of the word we just don't know not that we're stupid like the word ignorant conjures up, but just we're oblivious. But the whole world is ignorant to American culture as well. And sadly to say so is a lot of America I blame TV.
And I don’t think the Canadian TV show that pokes fun at Americans is disrespectful. I think it's probably funny, but with that acceptation I hope Canadians don't feel belittled by our portray of them in shows such as Southpark, or other incidents where they're linguistic differences or hockey obsession is used against them either.
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