How is Canada Perceived From Where You sit?

[bilbous]

I kind of liked the Fox "trailer puck" as it can be hard to follow on a small tv with a lot of static. I miss the old days of small arenas and fewer teams when a player had to be tough to survive. These days I mostly only watch the play-offs and then only until the last Canadian team is out. Montreal is overdue for a cup. Sadly, I don't know how they can manage. The Loafs are a laugh and don't deserve to ever win again. Go Sens! Hehheh.

[davo]

i really like canadians, very nice and polite and they also speak very quietly and softly lol.

As history goes, canada was started by convicts too right ?

We have lots of canadians living here in australia,  they fit in well.

I know not to mistake canadians for americans at it annoys canadians lol, but ive only ever met one american living here, they never seem to move here.

And no im not going to start putting down americans as the current trend goes.  I only know one american, his accent is funny, and he thought maccas was a different chain of fast food not just aussie slang for mcdonalds.  They are cool ppl.

[Nurahk]

I agree with davo, Canadians are better

And bilbous, we hold the record for stanley cups...and we hold it quite high above everybody else.  The habs are just giving everybody else a chance to catch up.

[bilbous]

I know that very well about the Habs, the fact remains that they are long overdue for a cup. A Montreal team has won the cup in every decade since it was first presented, there is not much time left for them to do so in the 2000's. The tradition MUST continue or the NHL may as well go the way of the CFL.

[LARAGORN]

I agree with bilbous, in the patriotic area. If you love where you live, it is human nature to feel what you love, is slightly better than anything else. If this statment was untrue, then there would be no conflict in any area, everyone would love everything and everyone all the time (wouldnt that be kewl).

[bilbous]

I expressed myself poorly, however, in a way that unintentially gave offense.

[Akaye]

@bilbous: I understand you weren't trying to offend from your last post as you explained what you meant to me. So no worries.

Just to make it clear I love my country but I don't put it above another. This does not make me not patriotic. Patriotic means to show love of ones country. You don't need to point out what you do best as a country to show love for it. Of course there are things we do better, just as there are things that other countries do better at. I just don't go rubbing what we do well in the other countries face. To me that is abit snobbish. I could live in the worst place in the world and still take pride in my country even if it didn't do the best at anything, that is patriotic.

[Coneitic]

Ever see bowling for columbine? the kids they interview from canada make canada look real bad, they should eggs thrown at them!

[zanzibar]

Ever see bowling for columbine? the kids they interview from canada make canada look real bad, they should eggs thrown at them!

Really?  I didn't see it that way.

[Akaye]

Ever see bowling for columbine? the kids they interview from canada make canada look real bad, they should eggs thrown at them!

Explain how they made themselves look bad? The movie was focused on the USA and it gave a bad image of the country. I think your example was poorly picked.

[Stronith]

Canadas very arrogant. Tho they have a great country they do have problems. But they find a way point out americas flaws and where they succeed as america cant, to overshadow their own problems. But hey its cool.

I AM (proud, not arrogant)


Of course we have problems of our own - it's just that American problems are more entertaining to discuss.  Thank Fox / CNN etc for that.

[The Wandering Djinn]

Hmm... where would Rock Music in America be since the 1970s if it hadn't been for the contribution made to it by Canadian musicians?

Bachman Turner Overdrive
The Guess Who
Rush

Bryan Adams
Joni Mitchell
Neil Young


....no doubt there are many many more, but these came to mind without resorting to Google Search

[Stronith]

Hmm... where would Rock Music in America be since the 1970s if it hadn't been for the contribution made to it by Canadian musicians?

What would Rock Stars in America be without Pamela Anderson?

[Peacer]

Hmm... where would Rock Music in America be since the 1970s if it hadn't been for the contribution made to it by Canadian musicians?

What would Rock Stars in America be without Pamela Anderson?

Harny

[zanzibar]

What would Rock Stars in America be without Pamela Anderson?

HIV negative.