RE: [microsound] foreign canadian

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

look at you all you sound like a bunch of fucking anthropologists!!
Let us Candians speak for our selves, we definately do not need you
americans analysising our culture!!!!!
neil...
(not a large fan of american culture for the most part)


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Philip Sherburne wrote:

>My senior year of college (in New York state), I took a Canadian literature
>class, with much discussion of Canadian "identity" in arts & culture. My
>professor told a story: apparently the Canadian board of tourism, or some
>such organization, held a contest to come up with a phrase that would work
>as the equivalent of "As American as apple pie."  "As Canadian as..." maple
>leaves? Mounties? Public healthcare? I don't recall what the winning entry
>was, but apparently much attention was given to one of the runners up:
>
>"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances."
>
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>Subject: Re: [microsound] foreign canadian
>
>>I am not sure where this leads, but I live very close to Canada, in
>>Rochester, NY, and travel to Toronto, Montreal, etc... often and find
>the
>>government and culture far more tolerant and the media is not screaming
>(as
>>loud).   Anyway, I hope no one has a problem with me because I live in
>the
>>U.S. , I am a person and do not represent the government or the media.
>:)
>>
>>The video store in Canada that had a Canadian film in the foreign
>section
>>was most likely owned by some US, conglomerate that sucks the identity
>from
>>all it touches, or not.
>>
>>Marc
>
>
>And even our 'Canadian' advertising is corrupted, like the 'Canadian'
>Wendy's commercial that shows people being handed American money as
>change.
>Them ad's is apparently 'Made in the USA', dawg gone it!
>
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