Averett

Well, it read that you were pissed about it. It's not like any of us have the time to read every single post and say "well, I see what you're saying there, but let me ask you how you feel." That's a bit much, don't you think?

We all have to realize that when we post things online, well, people are going to make assumptions. We can't see your face as we could if we were having a coffee discussing things. You could be rolling your eyes as you post something, but I can't know that.

I don't have a problem with you at all. But at points in this thread you're not coming across any better than those Ignorant Americans out there.

Maybe somebody needs to come up with some sort of quiz. One testing American history and culture, and one testing Canadian history and culture. I have Canadian friends so I might know a bit more than the average American about the culture. I have no idea if Canadians learn American history in school. I know I didn't learn much Canadian history. Is this because we don't think it's relevant? No, I don't think so. I think it's more of an issue of there only being so much time in the day.

Should Americans and Canadians and Mexicans know more about eachother? Of course. But it doesn't look like we can depend on our school systems to do this.

silent_jay, I'm curious about what you might have learned about American history in school. In high school we had classes called "World History" or "Global Studies". Basically take a few weeks and learn some French or Russian history. Living in New York we do have some shared history with Canada and the French and Indian War. Seems like there might be more of a chance for a Canadian to take an American history course than for an American to take a Canadian history course.

Sheesh, I wrote a lot..

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