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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
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There's a lot of ideas that get repeated a ton that become so entrenched in people's knowledge everywhere that we'd call propaganda if they happened in China or Russia or even the US for us here. A good chunk of the divide occuring in the US is some people realizing that US exceptalizism is basically a myth and they are just a country of people like everywhere else and the rest of the people sticking to the 'USA is best' talk.
Canada and Alberta have the same type of propaganda/myths that arent' really true if you dig into it.
- Canadian hockey players are grittier and have more drive than other countries
- Canada's soliders were more heroic than others in wars
- War of 1812 was a big Canada/UK win
- We are better people than other countries
- Canada would be a backwater economically if it wasn't for oil and gas
- Alberta oil is greener than other countries oil
Some of that is 'good' propaganda - its beneficial to a country that its people are proud of it and willing to contribute to it - but it doesn't make it true.