01-05-2011, 07:57 PM
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warrior bodhisattva
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Location: East-central Canada
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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Kirk... I am convinced it's a weather thing. The northern states have similar weather to Canada. The southern states, and their warm climates, breed a different social and political beast.
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We're like Fire and Ice.
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In this 2003 bestseller, which won the Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy, Michael Adams offers the surprising argument that the values of Canadians and Americans are diverging in important ways. Despite the two countries' profound economic integration, their many historical, demographic, and geographic similarities, and the ubiquity of American popular culture in Canada, Adams argues that Canadians and Americans increasingly view the world differently. Relying on thousands of social values surveys conducted in Canada since 1983 and in the United States since 1992, Adams describes cross-border differences on matters ranging from religion, authority, and the family to entertainment, consumption, and civic life. Fire and Ice offers an illuminating portait of the evolving values of two nations separated at birth.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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