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I bet that's what Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Castro were thinking too.

I don't want to sound arrogant, honestly. But this is happening again, let's drop the country against country act and focus on the topic that we were given. If a guest from a non North-American country came on this forum and saw the question that was posted here and then saw our responses to it - I'd think that they'd be disgusted that the citizens of the two countries with the largest undefended border and the countries that rely most on each other are arguing over our respective opinions on what it means to be from our respective countries. These debates are what forums like "Mapleleafweb" are made for, yes, but the discussion going on currently isn't directly related to the original question, who's PM's were blocked or ignored has no bearing on Canadian pride.

I retracted what I said about the USA, and made MY opinion on what I BELIEVE it is to be Canadian, and now there's Americans telling us not only what it means to BE AMERICAN, but that my opinion is wrong, when I just did what they told me to. Can we just make another topic so we can beef at each other, and keep already-made topics what they are?

You're right, eh. That's right --- i went there. I said the world's biggest stereotype about Canadians. But seriously, Lily bud, you are right.

I just said that so I wont be labelled as anti-American (which i"m not obviously) my comment before that one demonstrates what I feel about being Canadian. Just So you know that I'm a Canadian patriot.

Like I said, I'm not labelling all the US residents, there's hundreds of millions of Americans like Condoleeze Rice and Colin Powell and Martin Luther King jr and Barack Obama and countless others, who will serve the planet great, and represent perfectly the creedo that the USA was founded upon. The very slim minority however, that refuses to accept others' ways of life, like gays for example or Muslims or Jews or whomever, those sometimes tend to be the individuals that speak the loudest and make the greatest impression on foreigners, which is very unfortunate.

Despite the facts, I must agree with the Yankees on this page. It's not a forum regarding what it means not to be American, it's what it means to be Canadian. Sure, when it comes to comparing us to another individual from another country, it must be to our largest trading partner and only territorial neighbour. But, the point is that I retract my statements for another subject regarding the differences between our countries, not what it means to be from Canada itself. Being Canadians means being from a country that made hockey, Tim Horton's, basketball and the G-suit. Being from a country where you can learn about most cultures from walking down the street, a multicultural and tolerant nation to everyone (despite several black spots of our past). The maple leaf is used by many non-Canadians travelling abroad in hope that they get the same respect that we do. Second largest landmass on the planet, largest coastline, and the best health care in North America PERIOD

The two modern-day economic depressions/recessions (1930s, and the 2000s) were caused directly by the USA, they're 11 trillion dollars in debt.

It's no secret that the industrialized nations of NATO, and the Anglosphere to be specific, spy on each others' citizens, with their permission of all things. The UK, for example, with biometric ID cards, detention without trial, and 4.2 million cameras, is Big Brother watching you? Do you think he should be watching us? Or do you think this is a gross invasion of our constitutional rights and privacy? Will the 21st century result in 1984?

If you're implying this, no I'm not a member of the nationalist white supremacist party of Canada, I'm not a member of any political party. I'm saying, however, that if people are forced to vote that it's A) a breach of freedom and if they aren't voting in the first place when they don't have to, they certainly wont vote with respect when they're *forced* to. If they wish to vote, let them educate themselves so they can make an informed decision, not jeopardize the country's freedom and its political well being.

Vancouver for example, is largely composed of 29% Chinese, 6% South Asian. It supports, also a "rich-range of multicultural media," including three Chinese-language dailies (Ming Pao, Sing Tao Daily and World Journal." "Daily broadcasts are made in Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi, Korean and Tagalong. It's also home to BC's longest running Ukrainian radio program, Nash Holos." There's as many Buddhists as Protestants and Catholics. In all of Vancouver, 47% of the population is of a visible minority group. To learn about other cultures and languages, take a quick trip to the Punjabi Market, Little Italy (common in the northern USA also), Greektown or Japantown. Vancouver constitutes the largest native community in the province of BC, and it hold's one of the countries largest gay communities. That's the very definition of multiculturalism. Compare that to the southern USA where, the majority, not all, it would be quite difficult to be homosexual, for example, with ministers like Fred Phelps Sr, or rednecks riding around in cars labelled "Fagbug," or teenagers with signs saying "God hates fags!" or "fag=anal=sex=DEATH." and NO, i am not labelling the USA as all of these people, absolutely not. I'm simply saying that in my experience, Canada, on average, has a great wider variety of culture, languages and religion, and is more accepting of people with different ways of life, compared to numerous locales in the USA.

Discrimination is nothing new to humankind, and in this modern era, it's common for less educated individuals to label the entire Muslim population as .... well you know how they're labelled. So, as intelligence scholars here, let's hear your opinion, some practical experience, like meetings and travel to the Arab world would be appreciated as well.

I absolutely agree, New York is amongst the best locales to discover the many cultures in North America. My point however, is the South States, their past excluded, as, in my experience of Las Vegas and Dallas, the only other culture, probably, you'd have a chance of witnessing is Latin American, and few others as in the northern USA and all of Canada.

Well said, and this was the entire goal of Trudeau's law on multiculturalism. It's amazing that you can learn about almost every global culture by walking down the street in Ottawa, Toronto or Vancouver to name a very few. No disrespect intended, but I find such a phenomenon difficult in most southern US cities, hopefully that's changing however.

"Obviously.....as far more Americans died in total. Canada did not play a major role in the Pacific at all. Americans note the fickleness of Canadians wishing us to join their wars in a hurry, even when they have not been attacked." - bush_cheney2004 (sorry for this format, I was just getting the quotation fundamentals worked out) I respect and enjoy debating your point bush_cheney2004, while I disagree with it. I would, however along with the other Canadians on this forum, appreciate it if you refrain from insulting the quality of our soldiers, especially those dead from past conflicts. And had the Nazi Germans and the Japanese not attacked your vessels and naval bases in WWI and WWII respectively, we all know that your nation would of sat nice and tight while Canada helped decide the fate of the world. Ask an intelligent non-North American that, and you'll see what I mean, go to Vimy Ridge maybe, or Ypres, or la Somme, then come back and we'll have some more friendly debates.