Canada VS United States
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Originally Posted by kfar09,Jun 23 2008, 07:39 PM
Canada = cold. No thanks. Cold weather absolutely blows. The only time I want it to be cold is when I go skiing.
We have pretty similar climate regions to most places (but not the very hottest) in the US. Toronto annually sees peak temperatures around 105-110F, and already sawabout 104F last month.
I boat in the summer and lie on beaches roasting my sack off, but in the winter I get to enjoy some skiing, boarding, and snowmobiling.
Methinks you haven't been to Canada, except maybe in the dead of winter.
The US has the Tail of the Dragon. Closest thing I could think of would be running some of the mountain roads in British Columbia. TOTD WINS.
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Gymkata, I was laughing in my chair at the pic you posted 
I agree with the statement about the differences within the US being greater than the typical differences between US vs Canadian citizens. Compare a stereotypical small-town southern bigot (lived there for 10 years--they are out there), a high-strung New Yorker, a casual midwesterner, and a stereotypical Malibu girl. We've got lots of variety, and I'd bet there's a greater difference between a "normal" American in one area of the country compared to another than there is in a "typical" American vs "typical" Canadian.
My opinions, stereotyping America: Americans are generally nationalistic (often in a prideful and even dogmatic way sometimes). We typically will either feel most of our unpopular (in Europe/"the world") efforts such as the war in the middle east are justified or we don't like it but still do little about it, and we generally don't investigate the details much.
And on keeping up with news/current events, many americans don't care because we don't feel we'd get an accurate picture anyways by pulling up a quick news report--we just pick our biases with the source in that regard, and I feel so does Europe, they're just more homogenous in their culture and views, so the source quickly changes from "biased" to "right." I also always felt like Americans are happier on average than Europeans (at least in Scandinavia and Germany), but I don't know about how that compares to Canadians.
I feel like Canadians really try hard to distance themselves from the US; that's probably why Europeans like them better--they like them when the like the US politically, and they don't hate them as much when they hate the US politically.
And European health care and higher education is easier to attain--I wish we could capture that--but both IMO are better on average in America provided you can afford it. That's the whole 'market' vs 'socialist' philosophy at work and little more. We frequently choose better but not equal for all; Europe frequently chooses inferior but equal for all. And we both think our view is just, so that shows that we view justice differently.
I agree with the statement about the differences within the US being greater than the typical differences between US vs Canadian citizens. Compare a stereotypical small-town southern bigot (lived there for 10 years--they are out there), a high-strung New Yorker, a casual midwesterner, and a stereotypical Malibu girl. We've got lots of variety, and I'd bet there's a greater difference between a "normal" American in one area of the country compared to another than there is in a "typical" American vs "typical" Canadian.
My opinions, stereotyping America: Americans are generally nationalistic (often in a prideful and even dogmatic way sometimes). We typically will either feel most of our unpopular (in Europe/"the world") efforts such as the war in the middle east are justified or we don't like it but still do little about it, and we generally don't investigate the details much.
And on keeping up with news/current events, many americans don't care because we don't feel we'd get an accurate picture anyways by pulling up a quick news report--we just pick our biases with the source in that regard, and I feel so does Europe, they're just more homogenous in their culture and views, so the source quickly changes from "biased" to "right." I also always felt like Americans are happier on average than Europeans (at least in Scandinavia and Germany), but I don't know about how that compares to Canadians.
I feel like Canadians really try hard to distance themselves from the US; that's probably why Europeans like them better--they like them when the like the US politically, and they don't hate them as much when they hate the US politically.
And European health care and higher education is easier to attain--I wish we could capture that--but both IMO are better on average in America provided you can afford it. That's the whole 'market' vs 'socialist' philosophy at work and little more. We frequently choose better but not equal for all; Europe frequently chooses inferior but equal for all. And we both think our view is just, so that shows that we view justice differently.
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Originally Posted by MikeyCB,Jun 24 2008, 11:02 AM
We have pretty similar climate regions to most places (but not the very hottest) in the US. Toronto annually sees peak temperatures around 105-110F, and already sawabout 104F last month.
I boat in the summer and lie on beaches roasting my sack off, but in the winter I get to enjoy some skiing, boarding, and snowmobiling.
Methinks you haven't been to Canada, except maybe in the dead of winter.
The US has the Tail of the Dragon. Closest thing I could think of would be running some of the mountain roads in British Columbia. TOTD WINS.
