RE: Similarities and Diff
As an Englishman who's spent the last 4 months in all of north america (toronto right down to mexico city and back anti-clockwise), I honestly think it's got something to do with acceptance of government and figures in power, after spending a couple of days in georgetown nr washington I got fed up with this nonsense about George Washington and his band of cronies.
the fact is, the man was a liar, a cheat, a man who sold his soul to the corporations and did a very good marketing stitch up job against the english, every school child is taught that he could never tell a lie lol, and they accept this mostly, a lot also believe that this "war on terror" is about freedom and liberty, and they accept this, as I said, the english took land, but they never said they were giving freedom.
soz, but the fact is, Canada has grown into an independant nation, a nation which is generally much more accepting of ethnic minorities, and generaly because they (apart from in defence of their own nation against the said country) didnt fight for their freedom, which was handed over as they grew as a country, they arent forever upsetting their so-called allies with an arrogence only seen before from the previous global super power in the west.
basically, Canada is a good example of what the US could have looked like....generally a much nicer, pleasant place