Reply #4: oh yes we do ;) [View All]

[iverglas]

We get to watch all that amurikan teevee, and see just how lucky we are!

The sad thing is that you don't get to watch much of anything else -- if ya did, more of you would know how lucky we are, and maybe want a piece of it. Your own piece, I mean, of course. ;)

It's the utter unsophistication of the public manifestations of US politics that amazes. Slogans from the 18th century, wives with shiny hair, constant invoking of "patriotism". It really is -- and this is said dispassionately, just as an observation, not meaning to poke fun (not that we aren't wont to do that) -- like looking at a third world country of the tin-pot general variety. I hasten to say that this is what looking at the trappings and ceremonies of it all looks like, and that I don't mean that the informed observer isn't aware that there is infinitely more on offer than just that.

What even most Canadians don't realize is that Canada is an extraordinarily sophisticated society. It is *modern* in every way. The superficial similarities between us and the US obscure the very real differences for too many people, and the over-exposure to the US side of it pushes out the details and the breadth of what our side is really like.