Question to Americans; Do you know anything about Canada?
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Yes, it is on the continent of North America. It has two languages that are spoken: British English and Canadian French. Canada's leader is the Prime Minister. It is divided into provinces. Commercial fishing, timber, and agriculture are very intrinsic to Canada's economy. Tourism is beginning to become a large industry. There are many pristine areas containing abundant wildlife. The major cities have everything that one would find in any major city anywhere on the planet. There is more I could say but I hope this answers your question. Not all American's are uneducated or close-minded, there are plenty that do know about other parts of our planet. :)
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Yes they did, primarily because they moved further away from the United Kingdom. Canada had originally been a colony, but over time they have become more and more independent, along with the rest of the Commonwealth countries. WWII marked a very fast decline in the British Empire. \n\nCanadians are very sensitive about the subject, and survey after survey shows that there is a lot of anti-American bias among Canadians. The French Canadians harbor their main resentment against the English Candians, but in English Canada, their "conservatives" are more apt to like the US, and their "liberals" (American definition) are more apt to dislike the US (Ha! just as American liberals/Democrats are apt to dislike the US!) Western Canada is by and large conservative and very comfortable with Americans. But, the fact remains that Canadians are very similar to Americans, much moreso than they are to any other country, so it's sort of the resentment between a big brother and his kid sister.
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I have been a Canadian all of my life. We are basically a peace loving nation. One of our prime minister came up with a UN peace keeping force that tries and keep an eye on uncontrol situation in many countries before they become a war. Another thing is that we don't get involved in conflicts we know we can't win ie the Vietnam War. On a whole Canadians don't feel their government federal and provincally don't do enough for them. Even though we do have free medical care that's going the way of the dodo bird. On the whole Canadians live a lay back sort of life style in the shadow of the great American Eagle. And if you do talk to a Canadian in between the ages of 40-100 don't mention the avro arrow that was best airplane ever developed for it's time in Canada in the early 60's but the plane and plans for making further planes were destory. I wonder who didn't want to get ahead of them as a military nation?
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I am Canadian with many relatives in the US.  I have spent 35 years between the two countries and let me tell you, there are many social differences between the two countries.  I could spend the next two hours writing on the subject, but I will try to sum it up quickly and simply.  \n\nThe United Nations examines many cultural and social aspects when they determine their top 50 countries to live in list.\n\nLiteracy, infant mortality, life expectancy, murder rates, corruption, and poverty to list but a few. Using these aspects to measure a country's "status" as it were.  Canada has fallen on the list over the years to Norway, but for most of the 90'S we were #1.  The US was around the 25-30 area.\n\nI point out to my American relatives (all of whom believe that their nation is the best in the world, even though many have never travelled) that their communist neighbour Cuba has a higher standard of living than they do according to the UN.\n\nAs humble as we Canadians like to think we are, we are very proud and grateful that many of the negative social challenges that are ever present in the US don't exist here (at least not on the scale it is in the US).  I don't know one Canadian who would ever want our two nations to merge.\n\nWe have a relatively unknown multi-cultured utopia up here and we would like to keep it that way.
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I really don't mean to be rude but the really scary thing is that you have a family. Where did you hear that America will be nothing in a few years? your grilled cheese? 200 years ago the strongest country was England 100 years ago it was France or Russia.............. wow ........................................do us all a favor and don't tell people that your American, or from the United States, tell them your Canadian or something. Wow You've got to be from Oklahoma or Pennsylvania>
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I personally like Canadians and think it is perfectly ok to assume an american persona when drunk. This is also good for america as we europeans believe them to be religious fanatics and it would give them some good press if we thought they could cut loose, throw up in the street and start a punch up like all us normal people.
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Only *dumb* Americans resent Canada. I've met some Canadians and I've been to Canada, and I see *no* reason whatsoever to resent them.\n\nI think some idiots took the South Park song "Blame Canada" a bit too seriously and have absolutely *no* idea what satire nor sarcasm really is.
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I think that most people have an open mind on issues between Canada and the United States. I live on the east coast of Canada and many of our citizens have sought travel, work and schooling to the United States in our modern times. You have to judge a person by their respect for each other not their culture or origin.\n\nAs a Junior High School student in Canada(60's), my geography class had to learn the name of each State, their capitals and a product of each region. \n\nMy wife and I just returned from a visit to CT and RI where we stayed with friends that she made while working for Collette Vacations, a US based Travel Company.\n\nThe First Nation People from Quebec,Canada and Upper New York, former fisherman from the Canadian Maritime Region especially Newfoundland worked in the high steel industry helping to build the "Empire State Building" in New York, New York. They were referred to with great respect as "The Indian Crew" and "The Fish Crew", many of the relatives of these original steel workers assisted in the rescue and recovery efforts during 9-11.
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No idea.  I'm not America.  But in Canada, we're all queer!
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The full name of the country is The United States of America. \n\n"America" is  a shortened version of the full name. \n\nTrust me on this one, most Americans are well aware that the Continent of North America also includes Canada and Mexico!!\n\nIt is simply a shortened version of our country's name. We also refer to our country as the USA.\n\nPlease, please, please, can everybody just get over this for once and for all, and find something more important to take umbrage about?
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Americans seem to be less educated than those from other developed countries in the world.\n\nI could go on and on but frankly, Americans can stand to learn a lot more about everything, including Canada.
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Dude above me!?! \nWe have a huge land mass, perhaps you should compare the populations of aforementioned US and Canada?\n\nI agree with your motto! Can you add something at the end for me? "the beaver is a truly noble animal"\n\n~proud Canadian
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I don't know I live in Canada.
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I'm Canadian and I'm in the process of moving to the U.S and I can't wait!  Canada is a liberal hell hole.
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I am a United States citizen, I have traveled into Canada on many occasion and I really like their people, they lead the way as far as health care and social networking things but that is because they have not had to build a war machine. I wish that our government was more like theirs but the United States leads in so many other ways I would have to vote for us.
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dick Cheney, And I'm Canadian and i know that, let me ask you a question (nicely), Off the top of your head who is the prime minister of Canada? (if you are American)
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I am not American, I am Canadian and very proud of that fact.\n\nThere are things I admire and envy about the USA< but then on the other side there are also things I do not appreciate or admire. This war in Iraq is one of them...\n\nI think it was a huge mistake to go in and do what they have done. The civilian casualties are such a shame!