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Originally Posted by lurkette
I look at Canadians with slight envy. I would love to live in a country that had the essential freedoms that the U.S. enjoys (and more, at this point, given the state of health care and recent decisions about gay marriage), but without the "My Country Right or Wrong!!" jingoism and the schizoid Jesus-freakness/rampant individualism that seems to be pervading our culture at this point.
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Canada is more secular regarding hardcore religion/fanatics etc. The church always pops up at the notion of gay marriage and spurts its tired verbal diahhrea ad nauseum but that is to be expected. If I were part of an institution that was declining in support for decades, I would try my hardest to keep it going too.
Most Canadians appear to be open minded regarding many issues. The typical associations do exist, that being people that no matter what, will never try and see the other side of things, but I believe they are the minority who like to bitch because it's easier than actually doing something about such causes.
A good example was last week when President Bush was in Ottawa. Protesters galore. To me a better protest would be to start with ones own government than another countries however,...but that would assume a follow up,.. and work,... and effort,... and well,....it's just easier to bitch about another country then go home and watch American t.v.