Canadian-ness [was Re: American-ness ]

Mark Baker distobj@acm.org
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:44:40 -0500 (EST)


> I do think that Canadians
> struggle for an identity other than the rural, Canadian Tire, shinny-on-the
> pond images of our past and the current "inoffensive Americans"  image we
> adopt abroad.

Heh, well, I've always figured that the struggle for an identity, *is*
our identity.  Maybe that's why we're so smart; we go meta so easily.
Then again, that we keep struggling against it seems kind of stupid.
But if we stopped, we'd lose our identity.

My head hurts.

MB
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