Re: Inuit

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> >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.

Fifty-four forty or fight!

> 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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