RabidMongoose
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Originally posted by: Tom
sometimes i wonder what people did before there was an internet..
Canada is American.Originally posted by: LocutusX
I just read the OP, not the rest of this thread.
As a lifelong Canadian... I'd have to say that it was pretty spot-on. Canada has long had an identity crisis. However, it's inevitable... there's not much anyone here can do about it. Canada is doomed to being an anti-American political entity, simply because it is the part of North America which is Not America! That's how its always been defined, and that's how it always will be defined... until the UN takes over the world and we all sing and dance in a circle and rejoice under a World Government(tm). <insert Kumbaya recitation>
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Canada is American.Originally posted by: LocutusX
I just read the OP, not the rest of this thread.
As a lifelong Canadian... I'd have to say that it was pretty spot-on. Canada has long had an identity crisis. However, it's inevitable... there's not much anyone here can do about it. Canada is doomed to being an anti-American political entity, simply because it is the part of North America which is Not America! That's how its always been defined, and that's how it always will be defined... until the UN takes over the world and we all sing and dance in a circle and rejoice under a World Government(tm). <insert Kumbaya recitation>
Mexico is American.
They're just not the US.
Personally, I don't understand the whole 'Let's freeze our national identity' thing. Countries have been changing politics, culture, and people for millenia. Why should that suddenly stop now?
Rabid Mongoose accuses Stunt of nationalism... and yet, why is nationalism such a bad thing? Certainly, the feeling is more prevalent among the Americans on this board, yet they don't see it as a bad thing when it comes to themselves. Nationalism is necessary for a strong national identity. It's chauvinism that poisons things. And I'm not going to name names anymore, but you know who you are - you posted enough times in this thread to make my point.
Originally posted by: Kibbo
Can, you are seriously overestimating the practical effects of having a Queen.
I'll admit, in our past debates you have come up with a couple of good points (surrounded by a ton of crap) that suggest we should maybe scrap the monarchy.
Thing is, in day-to-day life, it has virtually no effect on us. It is not in our head. We don't think about it. Your psychological theories are rediculous, and if you spent one second inside a Canadian's head, you'd it.
Canadians feel insecure because our culture is very similar to the behemoth next door, and we fear that what is unique to us may be overwhelmed. That is the major reason many of us want to keep the Queen, because it keeps us different.
Also, calling a slightly higer property crime rate "crime ridden" is a bit of a stretch. If that were adequate reason to adopt rediculous language like that, we could say that your higher violent crime rate, and the fact that crime in your country so much more often leads to serious injury, means that you are a "violent ridden" society, that you are barbarians who beat each and shoot each other with the slightest provocation. I don't say that. Post the exact difference in crime numbers, tell me how much more crime is in Canada. Tell my what percentage is the difference, and what proportion of both our overall crime rates that is. Is it three times the amount? 4 times? Is our crime rate 1% higher? At what point is it high enough to use the words "crime ridden?" At what point is the violent crime rate high enough in your country to be called "violence ridden?"
Personal question, do you regularly Google to find negative statistics about other countries? Do you do so about your own? You often seem to bring in "facts" (without a supporting link) that are peripheral to the discussion at hand, and use them to tenuously support arguments. Not saying that all of your posts are like this, as I said before, you so bring up good points sometimes. But you take tiny, meaningless statistics, and blow them up to huge proportions. I'm halfway to thinking that you don't actually believe the stuff that comes out of your mouth, and you do it to get our goats.
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
CanOWorms, you really need medical help.
What's this unhealthy fixation of yours with the Queen of England?
Some of the greatest places to live in this world are still monarchies - Scandinavia, Holland... there are schools of thought who still debate the merits of constitutional monarchy. Sure beats having a presidential republic with a madman or a babbling idiot at the very top. I don't remember seeing British children showing me a postcard of the Queen as being one of their most treasured possession on Earth, but I surely do remember being shown postcards of Clinton and Little Rock, a few years back, in Phoenix.
Who's the stupid one here?
You are just as blind as the worse Canadians Nora speaks of... and you embody the most disgusting traits of the Americans, in the eyes of a Canadian, European, or anyone else in this world, outside the U.S. Every time I happen to come across one of your posts, I shiver.
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
CanOWorms, you really need medical help.
What's this unhealthy fixation of yours with the Queen of England?
Some of the greatest places to live in this world are still monarchies - Scandinavia, Holland... there are schools of thought who still debate the merits of constitutional monarchy. Sure beats having a presidential republic with a madman or a babbling idiot at the very top. I don't remember seeing British children showing me a postcard of the Queen as being one of their most treasured possession on Earth, but I surely do remember being shown postcards of Clinton and Little Rock, a few years back, in Phoenix. Who's the stupid one here?
You are just as blind as the worse Canadians Nora speaks of... and you embody the most disgusting traits of the Americans, in the eyes of a Canadian, European, or anyone else in this world, outside the U.S. Every time I happen to come across one of your posts, I shiver.
As for Nora, it's funny how she still concedes that "there's still more homelessness, racism and income inequality" in the U.S. than Canada, despite of its "endless and repetitive cycle of hand-wringing and angst". It's also quite obvious her American upringing cripples her outside her own country - and she'd be infinitely worse anyplace else in the world than Canada.
On a large scale of things, Canada and the U.S are two giant social laboratories. The Canadian "multicultural" experiment is ran with a watchful eye towards the results of the "melting pot", and, to quote Bono, the world needs more Canada, not more U.S. Also, keep in mind that Canada is a newer country. It became a state in itself less than 150 years ago, and it's still looking for a national identity (something the Americans weren't too quick in obtaining, either). At this point in its infancy, it's easy to look at differences between itself and the States. We are vastly larger than you, and yet we have a ten times smaller population, out of which more than 10 percent arrived here only in the last 25 years. At this point, with the influx of Asian and European immigration, we are definitely starting to see ourselves in a different light. The old colonists (francophones notwithstanding) were from a similar mold with those who populated the U.S., so the similarities were larger in the past. But as morre immigrants arrive, who have no reason to feel kinship towards Washington, it's possible the rift would enlarge. Canadian nationalism will become reality at some point, and the next generations will not be too keen about their predecessors indebting the country so much to the U.S. If I were to judge, I'd say Canada will become more and more unlike the U.S. over the next 100 years. And definitely will outlast it, regardless of military might.
*edit*... Rabid Mongoose accuses Stunt of nationalism... and yet, why is nationalism such a bad thing? Certainly, the feeling is more prevalent among the Americans on this board, yet they don't see it as a bad thing when it comes to themselves. Nationalism is necessary for a strong national identity. It's chauvinism that poisons things. And I'm not going to name names anymore, but you know who you are - you posted enough times in this thread to make my point.
They are completely out of the touch, the sort of people who will go along with whatever they are told.
Originally posted by: RealityTime
anita, please ignore the two of them. canoworms refers to me saying we are rampant with crime here because of a typo of all things on my part. he didn't like hearing about how rampant violent and gun related crime is in his country, when compared to ours on a per capita basis. [/i]
Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
CanOWorms, this is the very last time I will ever reply to you, so I'm going to keep it short. Unfortunately, I cannot do what I'd have done 200 years ago, when I could have challenged you to a duel (admitting that you'd have taken up such a gentlemanly challenge) and hopefully be done with you. So I'm going to just assume you're dead from now on.
You missed your last chance to show any kind of brains, in your reply. You could have offered some arguments worth sinking one's teeth into. You have no idea of the difference between different forms of state organisation, are clueless about constitutional monarchies vs. absolute monarchies - and for a Christian American, your lack of knowledge concerning the European monarchies' claims of divine descent is at least bizarre.
And to top things, you accuse me of being a "a xenophobic, ultra-right wing whacko, trying to deport refugees".
Actually, I laughed at that, considering that some time ago, someone here called me a "Commie bitch". You should get into some sort of agreement with my other "fans".
All your posts - for what I know, I've only seen you in P&N - have to deal with some alarmistic, highly acidic criticism of Europe. Some time ago I asked if you ever had a bad sexual experience with a burly European man. You have failed to convince me otherwise. Come to think about it, must've also been a painful case of home invasion, because you're obviously not travelled enough. I bet if you ever go to Paris, McDonald's and Euro Disney will be your first and only stops.
Again and again, you are only showing exactly the same kind of bias that the article quoted in the OP criticizes about Canadians. You only look at information that supports and fuels your absolute hatred and/or disdain and/or contempt for all things non-American. "I am different. I am American! Not perfect, but damn close!" Pathetic, really.
But I'm going to stop here.
As many on this board know, I'm an atheist, but since I am considering you dead from now on, I see no harm in these parting words: May your God have mercy on your soul. Adieu.
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: Stunt
I have no idea why there is an anti-american sentiment in Canada...
I believe that a large portion of it is due to envy and a massive inferiority complex. Much of the Canadian identity and culture is now focused upon it. It was so sickening to live in it. Thankfully not everyone in Canada suffers from such an affliction.
Originally posted by: SickBeast
Based on the way you talk about Canada on these forums I can see why the people here would give you a hard time.
I've lived with several American students over a 2 year period, and we never had any issues regarding anti-American sentiment. I'm still good friends with one of them. He's from Texas no less, and I voted for the NDP in the last election (it doesn't get much further left than that).
To generalize and say that all Canadians hate Americans is ridiculous. It's been blown out of proportion by the media because of that crazy MP stomping on Bush dolls.
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Canada overall is a greaty country. I've stated this multiple times. However, there is an inferiority complex infecting a good portion of its population, IMO.
Originally posted by: SickBeast
Canadians stating their dislike for your country implies an inferiority complex? Are you kidding me?
Have you ever thought that maybe they are simply opposed to things like the war in Iraq? It sounds to me like you have a superiority complex.
Most Canadians do not feel inferior to Americans. They just tend to vent their frustrations regarding the local bully.
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: SickBeast
Based on the way you talk about Canada on these forums I can see why the people here would give you a hard time.
I've lived with several American students over a 2 year period, and we never had any issues regarding anti-American sentiment. I'm still good friends with one of them. He's from Texas no less, and I voted for the NDP in the last election (it doesn't get much further left than that).
To generalize and say that all Canadians hate Americans is ridiculous. It's been blown out of proportion by the media because of that crazy MP stomping on Bush dolls.
I was raised from the time I was a child that Americans are our closest allies internationally, and I'm certain there are countless others out there with a similar outlook. If you look back historically, we've had each other's backs covered more times than we betrayed one another. :beer:
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Sheesh, if someone moves to Canada because a thick tongued muddle minded handpuppet became president then he/she is to sensitive for their own good and will have a hard time no matter where they live.Originally posted by: yllus
As a Canadian and having lived in this country for 23 years, I can personally attest that much of what it said in that article is true. A friend of mine is a recent American expatriate who moved to Canada when GW Bush won in 2000. She, a hardcore Democrat, tells me that she's found the anti-Americanism pretty hard to deal with - especially in the hall of our university but also elsewhere. Be wary - Canada is not the promised land of multiculturism that people think it is; at least for our closest ally.In "officially multicultural Canada," hostility toward Americans is the last socially acceptable expression of bigotry and xenophobia. It would be impossible to say the things about any other nationality that Canadians routinely say -- both publicly and privately -- about Americans. On a human level, it can be rude and hurtful.
Originally posted by: SickBeast
It sounds to me like [Rabid] has a superiority complex.
