Posted on 10/28/2005 3:00:35 PM PDT by Fair Go
He may have done his homework, but he's turning it in a little late. This is over 2 years old.
Still relevant. The problem still exits, still festers.
Too true.
Interesting point. I remember reading about 1/3 of the colonists were Loyalist. Most of them them left after the Revolution and they didn't all go back to England.
Indeed the first Canadians, apart from the French from what's called Lower Canada later (now Quebec), are the Loyalist Americans who remained loyal to the Crown in 1776. If I remember correctly, after 1783 most moved north to British North America and only a few returned to Britain.
Even today, their descendents still yield tremendous influence in political and cultural influence, particularly in Ontario. If you visit places like Kingston, Peterborough, Waterloo, Toronto, London, they have lots of monuments to the United Empire Loyalists. This is why Ontario on one hand is fiercely socialist (it is un-American), and on the otehr hand has the most sentimental attachment to the monarchy as the head of state of Canada (it is once again un-American to have a monarch as your HOS).
Wasn't the Royal American Regiment based in Ontario? What is it exactly?
Seems like the author of the article, who incidentally was a very well educated university professor, has really a raw nerve.
Having served in the Canadian Armed forces in my youger days, I get really pissed off at articles which intentionally try to destroy Canada, North America and the relationship between Canada and the U.S.
I'm always astonished at the apparent ignorance of so many of our friends that they would even give this sort of pure unadulterated horseshit any airtime.
You really have to wonder what motivates people who write this stuff and those who pass it on...
And, yes, it totally pisses me off.
It may offend you but the fact of the matter is the person who wrote the article was very well educated and informed. There can be no denying that the phenomenon exists. I am sure the insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere take great comfort from anti-Americanism in Canada and elsewhere in the world.
I'm sure the elitist highly educated University professor cannot be wrong...
I have met thousands of "ordinary" Canadians in my day and I come from a very large family (BTW, all highly educated as well) and the Canada and Canadian attitude described by the author are alien to us.
It's somewhat discouraging to see the level of ignorance.
I, like many, many Canadians donated generously to the U.S. victims of Katrina.
Why do you not see articles which report the fact that Canadians donated far more to their rich neighbour south of the border than to the victims of far worse disasters in Pakistan or Africa, eh?? Probably just another manifestation of our anti-Ameicanism, eh??
But believe what you want - continue to repeat the lies which could eventually result in the self-fullfilled prophecy where Canadians and Americans dislike each other.
I just don't get it...
I wonder if Glazov didn't get an unusually intense dose of anti-Americanism thanks to his being a professor and moving in those circles.
American university professors are anti-American enough. Just imagine what a Canadian university professor must be like.
If I were you, I would probably worry about your own nation itself less it implodes in a decade rather than worrying about other people blackmouthing Canada.
Did you read a survey two months ago saying that 1/3 of Canadians from BC to Manitoba want to consider secede from Canada and form a new country? I predict by this time in 2015 Canada will just be Ontario and the Maritimes and the rest will have left the confederation. The alienation is ideological - sick and tired of the ideological orthodoxy shoven down the throat by the "central English Canadians" on the part of the West. When Western Canada separates, I predict Australia will welcome them with open arms.
I think the PEW international poll of attitudes towards America and Americans, show that Canadians (a solid majority) view Americans more positively than any other country (except Poland and India - both for obvious political reasons).
Those who believe that are smoking dope.
There's as much chance of that as some of the southern U.S. States returning to Mother Mexico when they become predominantly spanish speaking.
Why? PHD generally means piled higher and deeper.
Read several of Glazov's articles before you give him much credit . In one he threatens to leave Canada , his bags he claims are packed , yet he's still here . If conditions in Canada and Canadian nationalists bother him that much , why is he still here ? This is not the land of his birth , what's keeping him from leaving ?
In a two parter he extolls the value of not being circumcised What can I say , maybe Russians have less to lose .
This article is well past two years old , full of generalities to the point one could write a book disputing them . If one cared . So what if Canadians are accused of having an anti American streak ? History will tell you we've only been invaded by the US 4 times , with at least 10 different armies . Maybe there's a reason we choose not to be American . The only county we've ever invaded was Germany .
Oh , I forgot , Russia too . But only once.
As a Canadian , why some one takes the time to hunt up such an article ,( it was posted on FD before), is beyond me. They need a life.
Thanks dude.
Nice to see another Canadian chime in on this.
Until you're post, it was ironic that I was exposed to more anti-Canadian sentiment in this thread than the total cumulative anti-American sentiments I've ever heard expressed in the past 55 years by Canadians..
Go figure, eh?
Someone or some parties are obviously preying on the ignorant in an effort to disrupt our relations with our American neighbours...
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