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Originally Posted by Table 5
Not really though. Everyone has their share of dumb idiots and narrow-minded thinking, but it's never really taken to the same extreme as it is in the US. With both good and bad, taking things to the extreme is the most American of qualities.
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This is a news story and is spreading based on its uniqueness.
The U.S. is almost 10x the size of Canada. I would presume it also then has 10x+ the amount of news sources. All the websites I visit on the net are U.S. based or Canada based so a story has to be really crazy for it to cross the ponds and for me to see it. The more people in the U.S. also are the ones helping spread the stories, making them more visible to us here in Canada.
Based on all of this I would expect to see 10x+ the amount of these crazy stories from the States than I would Canada or elsewhere.
Off the top of my head I've recently heard that a Calgary school is getting rid of honour role because it hurts the self esteem of non-honour role kids, another school in Winnipeg fined a parent because they didn't provide ritz crackers in their kids lunch.