GJZ, our countries developed differently. The US placed emphasis on the individual. You see it in political representation, states rights, independence, the Civil War. Americans often think of Canada, a federation, as a socialist state because it is so different: medicare, equalization to provide a national social standard for all regions, rich or poor. We don't have the polarization around issues that you have there. Of course, it's a lot more than that.
Where America was a melting pot of immigrants building a great nation, Canada is a multicultural experiment, a Metis nation in some respects because our native people were the dominant group for more than half of 500 years of European settlement here. We didn't have a Wild West. When you went to the barricades against overseas abuse of power, we stuck with the nutty king across the sea. Two countries, different peoples. Both sovereign, brothers in arms.
Last edited by King Brown; 01/13/10 04:43 PM.
