I've been accused here of being anti-American but I don't think it's true. Both my grandfathers came from the States and a lot of my family is there, or have married Americans who are living here. Americans are mostly nice people who I lost some respect for in electing Bush not once but twice. So it's been the government that I've had issues with but that should change. Sure it will still be looking after their own self interests but it should be with a more enlightened view.
It's an old joke that Canada inherited the best of all worlds.
British Government
French Culture and
American know how.
Instead we ended up with
French Government
British know how and
American culture.
This last one kind of gets to me at times as I watch us unquestioningly become more Americanized the longer I live. Just the recent use of the world and us calling the United States, 'America' when in truth they are only a part of America and this upsets me because the other part of it is the rest of the world than includes us as a part of this America and we lose our distinctive nationality. Hey a lot of their culture is great, good movies, good music, good baseball etc. There is just too damn much of it sometimes and as has been said before it's like sleeping with an elephant.
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