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tsatske -> RE: Contrasting Neighbo[u]rs [?] (11/12/2008 5:45:28 AM)
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They eat their fries with Mayo.
My second husband, who can't possibly get a D stuck in front of him for internet abgrevations, had these observations while we were married:
That Canada is very prejudiced about accent, and, he felt, very rejecting of his speach as a child, immegrated from Europe, and his European French was very unacceptable.
That he felt Canadian women were very prudish and not open sexually. (but he was a special case. I doubt others feel that way - more likely, they just wouldn't do HIM, with, I have to say, good reason....)
He said he felt the American attitude towards freedom was much stronger than the Canadain attitude, which, in his opinion, could be traced back to the way the west was settled in each country. His description:
americans loaded up some wagons with their wives and children and a gun and an ax and went out and settled the frontier. Canadians sent the Mounties and said, 'send word when its safe'.
Not that I agree, but there are some freedom differences that shock me, like BDSM porn being illegeal.
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