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Originally Posted by jayswin
What? Are you just guessing or do you know this? It seems weird as in the 90's there wasn't a lot of patriotism amongst students for Canada and hearing people talking about wanting to go to America when they grew up was extremely common. Canada wasn't "cool".
Then around the 2000's Canada started to really separate itself from the States in positive ways and the US started to look more mean and cold, and there was a huge swing in patriotism. Canada became the cool place that students were proud to be from, and you still see that in spades amongst our age group today.
I can't see how that swung back the other way with how our two countries have continued in the same opposite directions. Was this anecdotal or did you read this somewhere? Seems very odd, if true.
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
You sure about that?
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No guessing. It's been going that way for decades. Canadians love to proclaim they have a unique culture, but walk the streets of any Canadian city and you will be hard pressed to notice the difference between the locals and their American neighbors. They dress alike, they look alike (a few pounds lighter on the Canadian side), and they are even beginning to sound alike. The city scapes are the same, as are the malls. The cultural imperialism of the United States has greatly impacted Canada, and the adoption rate of things American is crazy. Consider the impact of media and entertainment on Canadian culture alone. Who are your favorite bands? Your favorite TV shows? Your favorite movies or movie stars? Who are your favorite media personalities? The ask yourself how well you know American history versus Canadian history? How well do you know American events as they happen? What are your favorite pass times? And on, and on. The literature from Sociological, psychological, mass communications, and political studies support this. Canadians have been the proverbial frog in the cultural pot, slowly coming to a boil. I still think Canadian values are different, and will take longer to change, but culturally there isn't much of a difference anymore.