Eaglesmack, "Actually a lot of these things that make Canada great are false but as long as it makes Canadians feel good about themselves I guess that is OK."
Most of them are true, and we can feel ok if we want to.
Eaglesmack, "Plus the author compares Canada to the US a lot which says quite a bit about his obsession with the United States."
All Canadians are 'obsessed' with the United States, our biggest customer, our biggest supplier, our strongest ally, our neighbour, our foremost benchmark in a million things, our top source of entertainment, our favourite villain, our cultural family and our flesh and blood. And most Canadians feel good about it, they just take feeling good for granted.
Were we given a choice by God as to where to park this monstrous country, seeing it nowhere on the earth - the 49th parallel, smack dab in the big mouth of the United states made by Alaska and the lower 49, would be the unhesitating choice of every thinking Canadian.
Were Americans given the same choice, they'd likely choose their existing location too. Most people feel affection for their country whether it is warranted or not. Somewhat surprisingly, Castro and Hitler proved that they cared nothing for their own nations and people, Hitler when he judged the German people unworthy of his delusions and wished destruction upon them, and Castro when he desired to wage a nuclear war with the USA and was stopped by Kruschev.
Eaglesmack, why would you wish to claim that our pride is false when it is not? Surely we are roughly equally conceited, prideful as the world, but we have the good reason of providence, the justification of luck, and a great debt to the dead.
