JailForBush
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Tue Jan-06-04 07:43 AM
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Need Nicknames for United States and Canada |
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I'm developing a website that will feature 9/11-related information for the world's nations. Right now I'm focusing on North America and would like to come up with some catchy nicknames for the U.S. and Canada.
Here's what I'm working with right now:
United States: Shadow Democracy
Canada: North America's Class Act OR North America's Democracy
Do you have any better suggestions?
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JailForBush
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Tue Jan-06-04 07:48 AM
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Canada: America's Conscience
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Indiana Democrat
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Tue Jan-06-04 07:54 AM
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Tue Jan-06-04 08:00 AM
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Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 08:00 AM by Minstrel Boy
The other North America.
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gator_in_Ontario
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Tue Jan-06-04 08:18 AM
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Tue Jan-06-04 08:29 AM
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Tue Jan-06-04 08:29 AM
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6. Canada: America's Better Half |
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Tue Jan-06-04 08:35 AM
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7. US = Pinocchio --------- Canada = Jiminy Cricket.... give a little whistle |
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Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 08:42 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
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ElsewheresDaughter
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:39 AM
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9. the cricket....in other languages |
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Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 09:42 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
English Jiminy Cricket Danish Jesper Fårekylling German Jiminy Grille | Jiminy Grashüpfer Spanish (in Colombia) Pepe Grillo Spanish (in Spain) Pepito Grillo Finnish Samu Sirkka French Jiminy Criquet Italian Grillo Saggio Dutch Japie Krekel Portuguese Grilo Falante Norwegian Timmy Gresshoppe Swedish Benjamin Syrsa
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outinforce
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:14 AM
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8. Canada...AmericaLite, perhaps? |
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Or how about Canada = The Great White North, USA = Cultural Behemoth?
Or Maybe USA = Rebels Against British Imperialism, Canada = Loyal to God and King?
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Screaming Lord Byron
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:39 AM
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10. How about European America for Canada? |
outinforce
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:49 AM
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11. Might be OK, Except That |
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Although I have never been to Vancouver, BC, I understand that it has a very vibrant community of people from Asia. I have been to Toronto a number of times, and I can tell you that although Toronto is no where near as culturally diverse as New York, it is by no means a strictly "European" city.
I fear that calling Canada "European America" would, in some way, deny the many rich cultural contributions that the many non-Europeans hwo have chosen to come to Canada have already made, and are continuing to make.
I will say this, though. I appears to me (and I was born and raised in the United States and am quite aware of the many irritating charateristics that those of us who are USA citizens share) that more than a few Canadians are very much like many Europeans. They, for some reason, seem to take great delight in preening moral and cultural superiority over the United States, while at the same time exhibiting an almost total insensitivity to their own country's shortcomings.
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Screaming Lord Byron
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:55 AM
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13. Yeah, I should clarify. European in thought, global in race |
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Obviously we are extremely multi-cultural in our make-up, but the guiding philosophies seem to me to be European. As to the superiority / inferiority complex, yeah, of course that's there, but then, visit Alberta, where the opinion is completely the reverse, and equally out of whack.
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:53 AM
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12. plutocratic oligarchy |
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.. or perhaps just "oligarchy" for the US. canada: Side car
Democracy has nothing to do with either.
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Tue Jan-06-04 09:56 AM
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14. How about "Canada: It's still the 1970s!" |
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And I mean that in a good way.
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