A Question For Our Canadian friends

Cookie said:
Jim, I think I hear your mother calling you. LOL
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If you did it's incredible, she passed away 23 years ago. You folks can look in any dictionary you want but the answer is you are specifically North Americans or Americans. Like it or lump it. *smile*...it's easy to be a good winner. PS You are also Canadians.
 

Poor Jim, really, he's just looking for attention ... or so bored that this is the only excitement left for him.
 
Cookie, I think this is about an unwillingness to accept another's perspective as having validity. I can't imagine telling an American how to define their identity, can you? That would be arrogant and presumptuous of me. Each nation has the right to define itself, regardless of what outsiders write/say/think. Particularly in a democracy.
 
Fer the love of Mike, I think we all know what North America is, what South America is, what Canada is and what the U.S. is.

To say that Canada is America is just as ludicrous as saying that the U.S. is England because they speak English.

This has gone from plain dumb to quite a bit dumber.
 
Cookie said:
Fer the love of Mike, I think we all know what North America is, what South America is, what Canada is and what the U.S. is.
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Mike is a Canadian name.

And evidently he doesn't know the differences.

To say that Canada is America is just as ludicrous as saying that the U.S. is England because they speak English.
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Not saying Canada is America - it is PART of THE AMERICAS.

This has gone from plain dumb to quite a bit dumber.
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Now you're in MY ballpark!
 
I think that it's pretty clear that Canadians are loathe to be mis-identified as somehow being affiliated in any way with the North American country known as the United States of America.

Why? It is not my place to say, I'll let the Canadians explain...
 
Hey, folks! Hows about we resurrect that old idea about just eliminating the border and creating one big, wonderful country?

If nothing else, it could:

Save a lot of money spent watching all those boarder crossings.
Eliminate unfair taxes on one guy's booze vs. the other's.
Get rid of half the combined politicians.
Myriad other benefits, the number of which pale into insignificance quickly.

Forget the idea! All it would accomplish is end Forum identification squabbles! :D

imp
 
No thanks Imp. We don't want guns or capital punishment, high murder rate. Hmm. Or right wing misogynistic evangelicals. We don't want all the wars either. You don't want our socialist perspective, or tough anti hate speech laws. Or our higher taxes.
Or tough gun laws. Or our indifference re not being a global power. We like being unimportant.
 
Jim and the crew --- harassing and posturing to the few Canadian women on this forum will not make you tough guys, the very opposite. Go back to bed.
 
Actually it seems to be primarily about respect. We were asked by op if we defined ourselves as North Americans. We replied in the negative. For some reason, some American posters took exception, and felt the need to correct us. Why? This is about a sovereign nation having the right to decide for itself it's own identity. No one else need agree, after all, it is not about anyone other than Canadians. Certain comments were construed, I think correctly, as dismissive toward women, a bullying approach. Again, a respect issue. To us these behaviours came across as contempt. It is distressing to be treated this way.
 
tnthomas said:
I think that it's pretty clear that Canadians are loathe to be mis-identified as somehow being affiliated in any way with the North American country known as the United States of America.

Why? It is not my place to say, I'll let the Canadians explain...
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Another American's balls are floated on thin ice! THIS ought to be good! imp
 

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