Journal #5

This week we watched a video in class about Americans slandering Canadians on FOX network. This video really got to me. The Americans who were slandering the Canadians were very under-educated about Canada.
For one, Canada has a more respected military, and I'm pretty sure we could hold our own if we really needed to. Our Government's shoe is smarter than George Bush. At least the leader of our country didn't lie about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to get us on board with his dicision for us going to war. Plus we haven't ticked off any other countries in the UN, so I'm sure they would have our back before they supported the States in a war against Canada.
Second, Canada is lucky to be on the same continent as America? Hello! It's called geography! Who says that we so thrilled to be on the same continent as them? Also, geographically speaking, the majority of North America IS Canadian.
Third, the majority of dogsledding takes place is Alaska, a.k.a America.
Fourth, Canada is not obsessed with America. I would say after all that fuss and nonsense that Carlson Tucker was saying, that America is little obsessed with Canada. Also, Canada can't be "America's little brother" because Canada is bigger than them.
Canada has a strong culture, and I do agree that sometimes we do identify ourselves as "We're Canadian because we're not American". But we also have our own culture to souly identify ourselves by.
No offense to the Americans, but Canada is educated in a global sense, in a sense that we are living in a global community and have to think of not just ourselves. We are definately more open-minded, hence gay-marriages. Also, we're not as narrow minded as American's who think like Carlson Tucker, because we know that not all Americans think the same way as he does, also we don't think they all are dumb, like they are often stereotyped as.