[novachick]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

novachick novachick:

Any state that has farm boys and cow boys I'm there

I suspect that any state that has boys...

Nope if I'm moving to the US I want farm boys and cowboys They are built for play fighting and good with their hands and heh heh never mind

[Toro]

Regina Regina:

Yank-in-NY Yank-in-NY:

If he had a choice between death and becoming an American, he would choose death.

See!! Darwin had it right after all.

[eh1eh]

westmanguy westmanguy:

I am an American in a Canadian body.

I would move to the USA in a heartbeat if job/finances prevailed.

Then my first act as a citizen would be getting a Republican membership..

And you're still here . Again, Good Bye.

[ShepherdsDog]

he's like herpes. this is a flare up

[Brenda]

Wow, according to another thread, we are all human, so who cares where one is born?

[eh1eh]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

he's like herpes. this is a flare up

[Yank-in-NY]

Brenda Brenda:

Wow, according to another thread, we are all human, so who cares where one is born?

Bravo! That's the bottom line.

[ShepherdsDog]

well there seems to be some influence. the people who settled in holland found a land overflowing with vowels and the poor welsh were driven into a hinterland that could only support consonants.

[Toro]

It should be noted that you do not need to take an intelligence test before posting on the Internet.

[sasquatch2]

$1:

Based on the right wing slant of many Americans, I'd guess that that would be their answer.

Yeah well the americans by and large percieve Canadians as left-wing. Too many Canadians confuse patriotism as anti-americanism. In fact most lefties certainly are anti-american. Nothing to do with the usual criteria of left VS right.

Most intelligent Canadians/Americans expect a degree of anti-americanism from Canadians as they realize that Canada in reality was based on the revolution rejected---hence anti-americanism.

That being said the relationship between the countries, in wartime,in times past, reflects the love-hate relationship.

Many living canadians are ex-US servicemen.

For every draft dodger who fled to Canada----perhaps 20 Candians mustered in the US for Viet Nam.

The flood of American volunteers to British/Canadian armed forces prior to pearl Harbour is a well known phenomina. Same with WW1.

More Canadians fought in the US Civil War (on both sides) than fought in the War of 1812 for Canada/Britain.

[Strutz]

Toro Toro:

It should be noted that you do not need to take an intelligence test before posting on the Internet.

Gee, do you think we could find evidence of that on this site?

Not that any particular members come to mind...

[dog77_1999]

Toro Toro:

It should be noted that you do not need to take an intelligence test before posting on the Internet.

So why did I have to give my Social Security number and credit card number the the Internet Patrol Officer that emailed me?

[bootlegga]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Yeah well the americans by and large percieve Canadians as left-wing. Too many Canadians confuse patriotism as anti-americanism. In fact most lefties certainly are anti-american. Nothing to do with the usual criteria of left VS right.

My point was that even our conservatives are still well to the left of the Republicans, and are considered by the far right as almost as bad as the rest of us commies.

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Most intelligent Canadians/Americans expect a degree of anti-americanism from Canadians as they realize that Canada in reality was based on the revolution rejected---hence anti-americanism.

That being said the relationship between the countries, in wartime,in times past, reflects the love-hate relationship.

That is a two way street as there are plenty of Americans who are anti-Canadian. It doesn't show up as much as we are far less of a factor in their affairs than they are in ours.

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

More Canadians fought in the US Civil War (on both sides) than fought in the War of 1812 for Canada/Britain.

Maybe because 50 years later there were a lot more Canadians than there had been in 1812.

[BartSimpson]

bootlegga bootlegga:

That is a two way street as there are plenty of Americans who are anti-Canadian. It doesn't show up as much as we are far less of a factor in their affairs than they are in ours.

Correction: there are plenty of Americans who are anti- (anti-American) -Canadian.

We get a little sick of people who constantly berate us for not being socialist, pacifist, more like Europeans, and then wondering why our President doesn't make it a point to kiss up to the Canadian PM (Chretien) who openly endorsed his opponent.

Chretien was a perfect example of the anti-American Canadian who thinks that they can insult us as they see fit and that we're just supposed to suck it up and play nice afterwards.

Chretien broke with tradition by endorsing Al Gore in the 2000 election and then Bush returned the favor by not making Canada his first visit after becoming President.

Granted, that little pissing war was quickly and easily forgotten at the Executive level when Canada was so kind to Americans after 9/11.

But still, there is a knee-jerk reaction that many Americans have when Canadians are mentioned and a lot of us think of Carolyn Parrish and how she wasn't censured for her outrageous comments. That she wasn't censured was seen as tacit approval of her comments.

Harper coming in as PM certainly went a long way to improve relations.

We'll see what happens with 2009 - hopefully Harper (if he's still PM) will have the good sense to not take an official stand endorsing a candidate for President.

[Toro]

bootlegga bootlegga:

That is a two way street as there are plenty of Americans who are anti-Canadian. It doesn't show up as much as we are far less of a factor in their affairs than they are in ours.

I have been living in the United States for a decade. Not once have I ever had an American disparage me about Canada. I did have questions about what was up with us not joining the war in Iraq, but not one single time has an American slagged my about Canada. In ten years. Maybe others have, but I certainly have not.