[Sapio]

mogman1 wrote:

I can kind of understand anti-Americanism simply because no matter who is in power, there will be someone to hate them.

In Canada, some people are anti-American no matter what. It is partly because we have a hard time coming up with an identity for ourselves. Thus being Canadian is "noting being American". It comes out of that. I think that idea is BS, but it is common.

[uwish]

People are big on bashing the US, in particular similar to what Sapio has stated, they blame the US because we don't have a 'national identity'

This is stemming from the 'pay people to be different' ideology of Canada. It's a bit like the united church really, anything goes you don't even have to believe in god but hey...welcome over here!

I posted a nice article on this site about Canadian vs. American government and politics that touches on this subject a bit as well. You can find it here..

current-events-f59/the-american-way-t71962.html