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Originally Posted by Daoust
I think we Canadians are entirely too sensitive about the whole issue. I am included in that. We're always looking for ways to make ourselves look better than the Americans. Lately it hasn't been hard. We keep looking for ways to get the upper hand. I think with the fresh drinking water (see last weeks issue of Macleans Magazine) we'll finally have something on them.
We'll always have the inferiority complex, so we just have to learn to live with it.
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I don't actually agree that we are too sensitive about it, nor do we have an inferiority complex. I think we are finally standing up for ourselves, showing some national pride, and thumping our chests about it a little bit.. and I think that kinda pisses some of the Americans off. For years, chest thumping was, quite frankly, the domain of America. They had it all. Now, they don't... we have a some of it. It's like the kid whose mother tells him he has to share his ice cream with the neighbour kids - he's sullen, pissed off, and starts to call the neghbour kids doody-heads. Meanwhile, the neighbour kids are LOVING their ice cream, and telling others how good it is.
I always get a chuckle when I hear "The Canadians want to be just like us".. as a people, we ARE just like them. As a nation... I want nothing to do with the (current) US brand of politics and media.
I'm quite happy - and PROUD - to be a Canadian.