If someone from another country (or the U.S. in particular; not always viewed as another country, as in "foreigners") asks you what Canadian means, what you are, how you're different from Americans, what do you say?
Many Canadians, journalists have stated so many times, are of the mind that the only answer is something along the lines of "not American." But if asked why, in what respect Canadians are different from Americans (obviously generalizations but overall), many Canadians are at a loss or come up with something superficial such as backbacon ("What's Canadian food?" Woman does not live by bread alone; note that the word man is included in woman so it covers both), not me, eh, urbanites don't end many sentences with "eh" eh, but The Great White North, eh, tried to explain "Canadian culture" around rural Canadians, and saying "eh" isn't exactly a worthy identity.
Hockey ... lots of countries play hockey, including the U.S.
British and French roots were kept here so Canada is "closer to Europe" than the U.S. is, so on and so forth, but if you want killer answers, really want to know and be able to explain what being Canadian is and why, with no mistake about it (unless you're in Alberta, one of the members of its alleged superior race) the link below gets to the root of it and also to the root of the failure of the reform/alliance/"new conservative" party, trying to use American political marketing in a country that has very little in common with the U.S. and has far more in common with the Netherlands (Holland).
The U.S. is, um, "uniquely" different from all Western democracies and certainly of Canada and that is explained as well. You will never fumble for an answer again as to what being Canadian means -- unless you need to move to a Jesusland part of the U.S. to find a repressive ("conservative" around religious discriminaton/superiority complex) culture you'll identify with.
I wanted to post the whole thing but the copyright forbids it ... so click on the link or be forever lost!
It doesn't address economics<->socio-economics but it certainly applies. The same principles that make (the majority) of Canadian society up apply to much improved productivity and innovation, though the current structure/systems of the Canadas aren't doing a very good job of working with us on that one, yet.
The word "Humanist" is used in the paper but it also means new capitalist. Humanist comes across as some socialist idealism to me (as in, something the NDP might prop up), because I focus more on economics<->socio-economics and how our structures/systems are failing us, miserably, but just replace the word Humanist with new capitalist if the word bothers you.
It's written for the perspective of outsiders who don't understand much about what Canada is, particularly the U.S.,
Why Are We So Different? A Canadian View
Many Canadians, journalists have stated so many times, are of the mind that the only answer is something along the lines of "not American." But if asked why, in what respect Canadians are different from Americans (obviously generalizations but overall), many Canadians are at a loss or come up with something superficial such as backbacon ("What's Canadian food?" Woman does not live by bread alone; note that the word man is included in woman so it covers both), not me, eh, urbanites don't end many sentences with "eh" eh, but The Great White North, eh, tried to explain "Canadian culture" around rural Canadians, and saying "eh" isn't exactly a worthy identity.
Hockey ... lots of countries play hockey, including the U.S.
British and French roots were kept here so Canada is "closer to Europe" than the U.S. is, so on and so forth, but if you want killer answers, really want to know and be able to explain what being Canadian is and why, with no mistake about it (unless you're in Alberta, one of the members of its alleged superior race) the link below gets to the root of it and also to the root of the failure of the reform/alliance/"new conservative" party, trying to use American political marketing in a country that has very little in common with the U.S. and has far more in common with the Netherlands (Holland).
The U.S. is, um, "uniquely" different from all Western democracies and certainly of Canada and that is explained as well. You will never fumble for an answer again as to what being Canadian means -- unless you need to move to a Jesusland part of the U.S. to find a repressive ("conservative" around religious discriminaton/superiority complex) culture you'll identify with.
I wanted to post the whole thing but the copyright forbids it ... so click on the link or be forever lost!
It doesn't address economics<->socio-economics but it certainly applies. The same principles that make (the majority) of Canadian society up apply to much improved productivity and innovation, though the current structure/systems of the Canadas aren't doing a very good job of working with us on that one, yet.
The word "Humanist" is used in the paper but it also means new capitalist. Humanist comes across as some socialist idealism to me (as in, something the NDP might prop up), because I focus more on economics<->socio-economics and how our structures/systems are failing us, miserably, but just replace the word Humanist with new capitalist if the word bothers you.
It's written for the perspective of outsiders who don't understand much about what Canada is, particularly the U.S.,
Why Are We So Different? A Canadian View
