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WCDT - August 8 to August 12, 2022 (strips #4846 to #4850)
Tormuse:
"Canada's, like, barely another country, though." Ooh, them's fightin' words! As a Canadian, I'm going to have to politely disagree! :P
Seriously, though, I'm not gonna give a historical/cultural lecture; all I'm gonna say is that I've lived in Canada for 40 years, and I could never, ever live in the US; in fact, things are so messed up there, I'd be scared to even visit.
John Allenson:
Having friends who have degrees in library science looking for jobs in Canada as Canadians; I find it doubtful that Claire would be in serious competition.
I agree that Canadians are likely to get irate at being told we're barely different from the USA. I also saw the same thing when I lived in Europe when someone mistook a Swiss or Austrian for a German. You'll even get the same reaction if you referred to Scotland as being the same as England even though they've been the same country since James I.
shanejayell:
--- Quote from: Tormuse on 09 Aug 2022, 07:59 ---"Canada's, like, barely another country, though."
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I blame South Park.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA
Tova:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 09 Aug 2022, 05:02 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 09 Aug 2022, 04:07 ---Is the claim that "Canada's barely another country" actually a thing that people think? :roll:
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it's another blatantly colonial project empire, it's *right there*, it's controlled by whites in a partially-ethnic caste system
it tracks more than it doesn't in a lot of ways
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I'll accept "more similar than different" but "barely another country" is risible.
pwhodges:
Jeph, having moved from one to the other, is just making a point.
Marten OTOH, being from California, might see it differently.
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