>Hakan: So you're a Canucklehead? Well, that explains some things....
>
>Glen: Heeey, what's that supposed to mean? :)
>Just joking!
Hakan:
>Nationality seems to be important on the web. Before I got on line, I >used
>to believe that the US & UK were mates. Now I know better. The >nastiest
>flame wars I've seen have been when the yanks and the limeys >have started
>to tell each other what they really think about each >other. And they
>always bring up the War.
Hmm well, I can't say the Canadians are too terribly fond of Americans at
times either. They are certainly, by far, more patriotic than Canadians to
the point that this patriotism could almost be classified as a
fundamentalist religion. Canadians also tend to find Americans' knowledge of
geography (particularly Canadian geography) frightening. I have many
personal horror stories of conversations with Wisconsinites who had no clue
where Quebec and Manitoba were situated, thinking they were side by side and
thinking that they were in armed conflict. Manitoba has a large francophone
community! In fact, the large province of Ontario (right _above_ Wisconsin)
seperates the two provinces!
A friend of mine and I had fun showing Minneapolis residents, who live so
close to Canada ironically, what a "loonie" looks like (it's our coin
dollar). They generally have never seen it, probably because they are more
interested in having vacations WITHIN their own beloved country.
Of course, these are generalisations but... well, I worry about the US alot.
I just don't want atomic bombs to blow up accidentally because they just
didn't know how to convert from standard to metric, y'know what I'm saying?
- gLeN
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