what is ur opinon or what do u think of when u see canadians? what is ur impression of them?
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I think Canadians are A LOT nicer than americans, they are not SOOOO incredibly ... They actually genuinely care for ppl...
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I was unaware Canadians hated US people, with exception to the French Quarter. I was in Canada and was treated very kindly by almost everyone I met. They are the most, laid back, easy going people I have ever seen and just being around them reduces stress. I don't agree with what you stated but I am sure people have had other experiences. Mine were wonderful and I really want to go back. It was the best vacation I ever had, eh?. Thank you for asking, eh?
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ooh that is a scary thought, bad enough living above them. makes me wonder though:\nif we did join with the usa, would Americans be able to find us on a map then?\ndo Americans think that as soon as they joined Canada, the states would suddenly turn colder?\nwould Canadians have to start hating minorities?\nwould Americans think that Canadians would want to replace there igloos with wooden houses?\nwould Canadians have to drill holes in our head and suck out half our brains?\nwould Americans have to finish high school and stop sleeping with their cousins?\nthere is just too much to think about!!
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Got this e-mail today.  This is a good read - funny how it took someone in England to put it into words...\n\nSunday Telegraph Article\nFrom today's UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation\nKevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph\n\n    LONDON - Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region.  And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.\n\n    It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries.  But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.\n \n    That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an  address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.\n \n    Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.\n \n    Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." \n\n     The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and  the fourth-largest air force in the world.\n\n    The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of ourse, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.\n\n    So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.\n\n    Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1
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I know several Canadians that put US folks to shame where politics are concerned. They are much more attuned to international affairs, domestic affairs than their southern neighbors are attuned to Canadian affairs.
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Generally I think Americans are ambivalent about Canadians.\n\nWe like their beer (Molson), probably eat their beef (Alberta), can appreciate their hockey (Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs), adopt their artists (Alanis Morrissette, William Shatner, Jim Carrey, John Candy, and so on), and film in their country (Vancouver).\n\nWhile I've nothing against Canadians, and indeed respect them, as a FIB I'm more passionate about my beloved Cheese-Head neighbors to the north and happy Hoosiers to the east. All in all, I'd say that Iowans (my western neighbors) are most like Canadians.\n\nRegarding Manifest Destiny: here are some sections from Wikipedia related to its definition and how it affected our relations with Canda, Texas and Mexico. Please visit the link for the complete write-up.\n\n"Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States had a mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom. Sometimes advocates said there was divine sanction (but atheists were often just as supportive). Advocates of Manifest Destiny believed that expansion was not only good, but that it was obvious ("manifest") and inevitable ("destiny"). Originally a political catch phrase of the 19th century, Manifest Destiny eventually became a standard historical term, often used as a synonym for the territorial expansion of the United States across North America towards the Pacific Ocean.\n\n"(It) has always been a general notion rather than a specific policy. \n\n"The phrase ... was first used primarily by Jackson Democrats in the 1840s to promote the annexation of much of what is now the Western United States (the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, and the Mexican Cession). \n\n"British North America\nAlthough Manifest Destiny was primarily directed at territory inhabited by Mexicans and American Indians, the concept played a role in U.S. relations with British North America (later Canada) to the north. From the time of the American Revolution, the United States had expressed an interest in expelling the British Empire from North America. Failing to do that in both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, Americans came to accept the British presence on their northern border, but fears of possible British expansion elsewhere in North America was a recurrent theme of Manifest Destiny."
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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 am a Canadian who has American roots, and have brothers and sisters in the States.  I also lived there for a couple of years.  Both countries have their up and down sides.  Medical treatment in Canada is far easier to obtain whether you are rich or poor. No one is denied treatment just because they cannot afford it.  Our social programs are better for those less fortunate. Freedom of speech is strongly endorsed and supported here, and we feel quite free to voice our opinions to our government.  Hate propaganda is not tolerated and carrying weapons will land you to jail.  The scenery is beautiful and if the cold weather bothers you there's always the west coast which rarely sees snow.  Although the crimes stats and drug problem has escalated in recent years it's still one of the safest countries to live in. Our peace keeping efforts are well known and respected around the world . In the past month our government has allocated a large amount of money towards tightening up our security to combat terrorism and our immigration laws are to be tightened up immensly.  We have realized that our immigration laws have been too lax and a much more vigilent screening process is being put in place.  I may be a little biased but my vote goes to Canada.
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*Cries her Canadian Eyes Out* Awwwwwww, I'm so boring waa waa\n\nI think because the Un-Canadians aren't creative enough to see all our wondrous talents and awesome personalities. Take that  and smoke it baby!!!!
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they love canada, canadian beer and ice hockey, plus it is a beautiful country, from the newfoundland fishing towns to calgary,  to beautiful lake louise. a clean and refreshing place. i dreamed of living there when i was a child , but things didn't turn out that way. i would sure like to visit many places if i ever get the chance. thanks for asking and giving me a chance to tell you what a great place you are blessed with in which to live.
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I think the US and Canada get along quite well, actually.  We are like siblings sometimes.  We squabble over silly things, but when it comes to important things, I think we get along well, or at least agree to disagree.  I am a proud dual citizen, US/Canada and I love both countries very much.  There will always be ignorant people in both countries who verbally put the other down, but there will always be those uneducated, intolerant types.  Luckily, they are not the majority.
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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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Much less so than in most countries.  However, in all countries, there is some bias....Canada is one of the better countries that way in my opinion.
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I am Canadian. I actually like that commercial. Its showing that people from all over the world can get along.
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..one thing's for certain, they make some of the best beer on the planet.  For that alone, I love the Canadians.\n\nhttp://www.unibroue.com/english.cfm
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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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As a Canadian, I have to say, we are a strong Country.  But we are not srong because we can push over other governments, or blow people up; we are strong because of our citizens and our faith in humankind.  Canadians are educated, healthy and generally most of us are able to be not only wise but objective when making decisions that influence the world's population.  We are not oppressing other nations due to any lack of power, but because we have no desire to oppress anyone.  \n\nCanada sends aid, in many forms to countries all over the world, including the US when they require assistance. \n\nDusty made a few comments, that need a bit of clarification because I dont want him or anyone else to feel pity for us Canadians.  \n\n1  We have customs problems because your US government implemented huge taxes, legislation, and conditions during the free trade agreement from 1988-89.  Also, since 9/11 your US Governemnt stiffened customs fees for all forest products.  (I live on Vancouver Island, and we have 200 trucks leaving every day from logging camps, directly exporting those logs to your side of the border, 2hours away) and shamefully the companies were sold to US firms under trade agreements, and those raw log exports have crushed the 3 communities that depended on the manufacturing of those raw logs. aside from the fact that those logs were clear cut in the first place, going against all logging practices in other areas of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia at that! we are not a Country to be pitied.  Actually, I pity the US citizens, your Goverment does an excellent job of oppressing you, its benefactors, maintaining the widening gap between rich and a poor, a poorer job of educating and encouraging its youth. \n\n2 our dollar value may hover at $.78 or whatever, but if we actually claimed full value for our dollar, many of our citizens would be crushed by the rise of inflation, the Countries we support would not be able to receive our aid, many variables affect our dollar value, with the intention of 'the good for all' not the 'good for me' mentality that coexists next to us.