RE: [microsound] foreign canadian

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

again in your american arrogance you fail to realise that in canada we
have 2 first languages and that for some of us english is not our first
language and that french is! (again I hate american arrogance some times
what a bunch of fucking know it all's, with out really knowing any thing
at all)
neil..


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, marc_mcnulty wrote:

>It is spelled: Analyzing or Analysing, in the US and Canada in that
>order.  What countries spelling do you refer?
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>At 11:46 PM 8/20/2001 -0400, you wrote:
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>>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)
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>>On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Philip Sherburne wrote:
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>> >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:
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>> >"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances."
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>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: obscure@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >To: microsound
>> >Sent: 8/20/01 8:49 PM
>> >Subject: Re: [microsound] foreign canadian
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>> >>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.
>> >:)
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>> >>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
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>> >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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