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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2019 20:17:14 GMT
Named after a waterfall in America I assume.
Niagra falls. Viagra rises.
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Post by Jim on Aug 15, 2019 5:45:32 GMT
Named after a waterfall in America I assume. Niagra falls. Viagra rises. The Canadians disagree.
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Post by bills on Aug 15, 2019 7:42:44 GMT
Named after a waterfall in America I assume. Niagra falls. Viagra rises. The Canadians disagree. Why would they? Canada itself is in America, just not the United States of.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 15, 2019 7:47:41 GMT
Canada is a watered-down version of the USA.
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Post by patty on Aug 15, 2019 7:49:06 GMT
Canada is a watered-down version of the USA. Canada when I visited proved to be very different to the USA... I would not describe it as a watered down version of the USA...
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 15, 2019 8:53:08 GMT
Many of the Canadians I've met had a chip on their shoulder, seemingly because of their proximity to the USA. Similarly with New Zealanders, too close to Australia I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2019 15:55:46 GMT
In my experience the 'chip' is only evident if you ask a Canadian "Are you from the USA?" or a New Zealander "Are you Australian?".
Get the nationality right from their accent at the outset and they positively beam.
Rog
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Post by bodger on Aug 15, 2019 16:17:17 GMT
..................... a bit like the men from the Valleys then ?
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 15, 2019 16:48:56 GMT
"Canada did not pack Indigenous people onto train cars and send them to be gassed, or march them into fields and execute them with machine-gun fire. However, our country committed not “cultural” genocide, but just regular genocide.
We forcibly took children from families — sometimes at gunpoint — and flew them to remote locations they could not escape — sometimes in tiny handcuffs — where they were submitted to a program of forced labour and “education” designed to destroy their cultures and civilizations. This desire to destroy cultures seems to be the reasoning for various public figures’ use of the adjective “cultural” before genocide. The other reason, I presume, is that some cling tightly — and childishly — to the idea that Canada has always been on the side of goodness and justice, and they find it very hard to accept, admit, and announce that we are a country that committed a program of genocide that lasted for many decades."
Canadians are hypocrites. They insist you must call 'Indians' "First Nations" but refuse to return the land they stole from them.
"The sad, depressing reality chronicled in James Daschuk’s tour de force, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life—describing the extermination of Canada’s First Nations—is the mirroring American readers will observe the same situation in the United States. The clichéd expression of “the vanishing American Indian” is no figment of one’s imagination but the result of centuries-old policies of racism, greed, and the march of Western civilization into the North American continent, with little or no regard for indigenous peoples, the rightful owners of the land. Perhaps the most startling figure in a book replete with shocking details is the speculation, made fifty years ago, that “the indigenous population of North America at contact with Europeans might have been 90 million people.” "
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Post by JohnV on Aug 16, 2019 14:19:04 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Aug 16, 2019 14:44:29 GMT
He is correct, USA and Canada are both a part of the American continent, the Americas.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 16, 2019 14:56:04 GMT
He is correct, USA and Canada are both a part of the American continent, the Americas. There is: North America (a continent) South America (a continent) South America is populated by Incas, Aztecs, Mexicans and other sorts. North America is populated by USA citizens and Canadian citizens. The Canadians are a bit jealous of the US citizens because they have Las Vegas, Donald Trump and the Friends TV series. But the Canadians do have Jim Carrey. Although he did give his girlfriend a sexually transmitted disease.
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Post by thebfg on Aug 16, 2019 14:58:56 GMT
Collectively known as the Americas or it was when I was at school.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 16, 2019 15:06:58 GMT
Yeah but you said "part of the American continent, the Americas" and that makes no sense at all. 'The Americas' is two continents. Did you know that South America used to be joined to Africa?
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Post by thebfg on Aug 16, 2019 15:58:45 GMT
Yeah but you said "part of the American continent, the Americas" and that makes no sense at all. 'The Americas' is two continents. Did you know that South America used to be joined to Africa? It is sometimes and often referred as one. However Canada is in America as is the USA.
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