Wednesday, December 08, 2004
What it takes to be a REAL Canadian
Let the rampant updating continue. I saw an interesting article online today that irked me, although it could have just as easily made me think that we were being complimented. Check out the link to follow along with what I'm saying: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/12/07/canada.tshirts.ap/index.html
So apparently an American T-shirt company has made a Canadian kit for American travellers to disguise themselves in. It's useful for when the travel abroad, particularily to Europe, but want to avoid all the hassles of being American. First things first, what happened to American pride/the over-confident feeling of being the "best, most powerful" country in the world? Has that feeling eroded so much that now you have to parade around as Canadians, who obviously live in the real best country in the world? Americans have to realise that they'll never be Canadian, so they may as well not even try, and you know something is wrong when they have to pretend to be Canadian through a kit that costs $24.99. Oh and one more thing, smart Europeans will definitely be able to tell the difference between a real Canadian with a real maple leaf patch sewn on to his or her backpack and someone who buys it online and who practices putting an "eh" on the end of sentences in the airplane.
So apparently an American T-shirt company has made a Canadian kit for American travellers to disguise themselves in. It's useful for when the travel abroad, particularily to Europe, but want to avoid all the hassles of being American. First things first, what happened to American pride/the over-confident feeling of being the "best, most powerful" country in the world? Has that feeling eroded so much that now you have to parade around as Canadians, who obviously live in the real best country in the world? Americans have to realise that they'll never be Canadian, so they may as well not even try, and you know something is wrong when they have to pretend to be Canadian through a kit that costs $24.99. Oh and one more thing, smart Europeans will definitely be able to tell the difference between a real Canadian with a real maple leaf patch sewn on to his or her backpack and someone who buys it online and who practices putting an "eh" on the end of sentences in the airplane.
