Posted on 07/05/2004 6:14:03 PM PDT by quidnunc
Can West News Services, owners of several Canadian newspapers including the National Post as well as the Global Television Network commissioned a series of polls to determine how young people feel about the issues that were facing the country’s voters. Dubbed "Youth Vote 2004", the polls, sponsored by the Dominion Institute and Navigator Ltd. were taken with a view to getting more young people involved in the political process.
In one telephone poll of teens between the ages of 14 and 18, over 40 per cent of the respondents described the United States as being "evil". That number rose to 64 per cent for French Canadian youth.
This being Canada, the amount of anti-Americanism that was found is not surprising. What is significant is the high number of teens who used the word "evil" to describe our southern neighbour. As Misty Harris pointed out in her column in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, evil is usually associated with serial killers and "kids who tear the legs off baby spiders." These teens appear to equate George W. Bush and Americans with Osama bin Laden and Hitler, although it is unknown if the teens polled would describe the latter two as being evil. Whether someone who orders planes to be flown into heavily populated buildings would fit that description would make a good subject for a future poll.
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Equating our youth with GWB, yeah right.
JMJ.
Desperation deluxe.
CanaDUH is little better than France.
Damn little.
Over 40% of Americans think that Canadian teens are irrelevant.
Prairie
Understatement of the year. :-)
Yes, we'll conduct a little experiment with these ignoramuses: we'll give them a choice that they have to live with, no getting out of. They can live in the U.S. or Cuba...one or the other. We'll see what they choose. I'm afraid a lot of these ignorant foreigners will have to undergo a lot of pain before they realize where their bread is buttered. The ill effects of leftism are not so much the countries they've destroyed in Eastern Europe and Asia but the influence they have in the West.
40% of Canadian teens think Alanis Morrisette is talented. Coincidence?
Over 40% of Americans think that Canadian teens are irrelevant.
The number is closer to 50%!
Now, just what would they think if the US had to come to Canada's defense, since Canada doesn't have much of one?
Another left wing country going down the hole, just like France.
Don't make me stop and come up there.
It's all the pot they recently legalized, it's impairing their judgment.
I remember when I was a teenager, I didn't know my ass from my elbow. It wasn't really until my mid-twenties that I actually got a clue. Young people are bombarded with rubbish ideas from an early age, some people never actually grow out of it.
More than 50 percent of American teens think Canada is our 53rd state.
That's a joke. Imagine if we were evil. We could wreck the planet. Our weapons, our technology, etc.
But no, instead we create amazing inventions and spread them to the rest of the world. We create amazing drugs and all sorts of medical breakthroughs and share them with the rest of the world. Etc,etc,etc.
Nowadays, we have the unwanted and unaskedfor job of fighting global terrorism brought against all the rest of the world by the evil of islam. Why most of the rest of the world sits by on the sidelines. Or, even worse, sits there and calls us "evil" while our kids bleed for them.
America evil? What crap! America is the guardian angel of the rest of the planet!
It's been a long weekend. ;-)
The little buggers sure like the American dollar tips they get at the fishing lodges.
I'd say the "glass was half full", 60% think America is right on!!! Not that it matters anyway, hell, 40% of American teens probably think America is evil.
The McKenzie brothers? EH!
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