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So here this. Basically if there is one thing I’ve learned from dating a Canadian for about a year is that almost everything was invented in Canada… Or so they tell me…
foxjump drawing.So here this. Basically if there is one thing I’ve learned from dating a Canadian for about a year is that almost everything was invented in Canada… Or so they tell me…
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Not compared to, say, Spaniards and Italians. But when I travel in the US I do notice subtle differences. Most aren't individual, though, I'll give you that. Take two people, stand them in front of me and ask which is Canadian and which is American, and I'll probably have no idea. They at least have to speak, or something... accents sometimes give them away. Americans, for instance, cannot say "about" correctly -- they insist on distorting it into something like, "a-boat." (As in, "look, there's a boat in the river.") Taken as a crowd, though, subtle differences exist. Driving over the border from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, for instance, I used to notice how a lot of the Americans seemed to dress guadier. And the homes were 100 times more likely to fly a flag somewhere on the premises.
If you look at demographics, the differences are more pronounced -- we have our own mix of religions, for instance. Canada has fewer members of the Southern Baptists, and other bible-belt denominations, few Mormons, not so much Methodists and so on. We have more Anglicans, however (what the American's call Episcopalians). We have about the same percentage of Roman Catholics, but they are more likely to be French Canadian than Hispanic, for obvious reasons. The percentage of Catholic Irish and Italians is about the same. On top of all that, repeated polls show that Canadians are just plain less religious than Americans. Answering questions, Canadians typically rate the important of their church far lower than their cousins south of the border -- not be a few points but something like 10% compared to 60%. Canada is one of the least religiously inclined nations among the G20, America is hands-down the most.
Another whopping different is in the black population. In the US its about 15% I think, in some parts much higher. In Canada is was practically zero when I was born, though the number of blacks have increased through immigration over the years. Most black Canadians are from Africa or the Caribbean, the rest from the US -- or their parents are. Unlike the US, Canada still doesn't have a large "native" black population.
I find that the Americans who seem to most resemble Canadians are from the northeast, around New York City or other East Coast metropolises, and parts of the midwest. The farther away from that part of the US, the "weirder" Americans get -- they begin spanking pinatas and think French Toast is for pouring maple syrup over. Of course, pehaps if you're a Canadian from Alberta, you find Americans from Wyoming and Montana to be most Canadian-like. And residetns of BC will probably find more in commmon with Yanks from Seattle and Portland.
Another big difference between the two countries is violence. There are about 150 murders in Canada every year, and we are a country with 1/10 your population. Statistically, there should be about 1500 murders every year in the US. Actually, there are ten times that number, closer to 15,000! That probably doesn't mean much to the average Joe -- for all intents and purposes you are not likely to be shot down the moment you step out of your house in Cleveland, and it does happen sometimes in Vancouver or Toronto.
So there are many differences, and I find them interesting, even if they aren't immediately obvious.
If you look at demographics, the differences are more pronounced -- we have our own mix of religions, for instance. Canada has fewer members of the Southern Baptists, and other bible-belt denominations, few Mormons, not so much Methodists and so on. We have more Anglicans, however (what the American's call Episcopalians). We have about the same percentage of Roman Catholics, but they are more likely to be French Canadian than Hispanic, for obvious reasons. The percentage of Catholic Irish and Italians is about the same. On top of all that, repeated polls show that Canadians are just plain less religious than Americans. Answering questions, Canadians typically rate the important of their church far lower than their cousins south of the border -- not be a few points but something like 10% compared to 60%. Canada is one of the least religiously inclined nations among the G20, America is hands-down the most.
Another whopping different is in the black population. In the US its about 15% I think, in some parts much higher. In Canada is was practically zero when I was born, though the number of blacks have increased through immigration over the years. Most black Canadians are from Africa or the Caribbean, the rest from the US -- or their parents are. Unlike the US, Canada still doesn't have a large "native" black population.
I find that the Americans who seem to most resemble Canadians are from the northeast, around New York City or other East Coast metropolises, and parts of the midwest. The farther away from that part of the US, the "weirder" Americans get -- they begin spanking pinatas and think French Toast is for pouring maple syrup over. Of course, pehaps if you're a Canadian from Alberta, you find Americans from Wyoming and Montana to be most Canadian-like. And residetns of BC will probably find more in commmon with Yanks from Seattle and Portland.
Another big difference between the two countries is violence. There are about 150 murders in Canada every year, and we are a country with 1/10 your population. Statistically, there should be about 1500 murders every year in the US. Actually, there are ten times that number, closer to 15,000! That probably doesn't mean much to the average Joe -- for all intents and purposes you are not likely to be shot down the moment you step out of your house in Cleveland, and it does happen sometimes in Vancouver or Toronto.
So there are many differences, and I find them interesting, even if they aren't immediately obvious.
The list goes on... For instance, Chester Alan Arthur, 21st. President of the United States, 1881 to 1885, might have been born in Canada and illegally elected. The story goes that he switched places with a brother who was known to have been born in Quebec, and died, so that it was actually Chester Alan who was born in Quebec and his brother in the US. There seems no proof either way since record keeping was pretty lax at the time, but Chester Alan Arthur's Democratic opponent had a field day with it.
A Canadian invented the electron microscope -- there's an actual plaque on the spot near where the old lab stood. Alexander Graham Bell built the first practical hydrofoil at Bras D'Or, Nova Scotia and had probably begun work on the telephone before moving to the US to finish up.
Reginald Fessendon is likely to have been the first person to transmit voice or music by radio, not Marconi.
The first trans-Atlantic flight was made by two Brits in a Vickers aircraft, from Newfoundland to Ireland, not by Charles Lindbergh. His flight was a couple of years later, and only enters the record book because he was solo -- it was a stunt, in other words. There is no practical value to flying the Atlantic solo, and nobody does.
I'm sure there's a book about this, edited by John Robert Colombo... if you don't recognize the reference, you're probably not Canadian.
A Canadian invented the electron microscope -- there's an actual plaque on the spot near where the old lab stood. Alexander Graham Bell built the first practical hydrofoil at Bras D'Or, Nova Scotia and had probably begun work on the telephone before moving to the US to finish up.
Reginald Fessendon is likely to have been the first person to transmit voice or music by radio, not Marconi.
The first trans-Atlantic flight was made by two Brits in a Vickers aircraft, from Newfoundland to Ireland, not by Charles Lindbergh. His flight was a couple of years later, and only enters the record book because he was solo -- it was a stunt, in other words. There is no practical value to flying the Atlantic solo, and nobody does.
I'm sure there's a book about this, edited by John Robert Colombo... if you don't recognize the reference, you're probably not Canadian.
Eli Franklin Burton constructed the first electron microscope in North America, though the Germans had been at it for years prior. Reginald Fessenden moved to the U.S. in 1886 and only began his experiments in 1890. The very first trans-atlantic flight was actually made by an American in an American aircraft, but it had stopped to refuel. The very first non-stop flight was made by two Brits, yes, not Canadians.
Now don't make me get my list of things invented in the US! It's impractically large.
Now don't make me get my list of things invented in the US! It's impractically large.
Once you start getting into details, it sometimes nobody invented anything, anywhere, anytime. The invention of the motion picture camera is an especial mess, with every country having its own inventor -- it all depends on how you define a motion picture camera, it seems.
Pizza is only Canadian if you substitute maple syrup for the pasta sauce.
Seriously, I notice some talk about who makes the best pizza. I've had pizza in a rather large number of places, and every city seems to have it's "norm". l like 'em all... almost. There are a few places that produce genuinely awful pizza -- the Washington DC area produced the rankest I was aware of, using a cheese made from oil substitute, rather than actual cheese. They may have given that up since then... one can only hope so.
People always think the pizza from their own city is best -- it's what they're used to, I think.
Seriously, I notice some talk about who makes the best pizza. I've had pizza in a rather large number of places, and every city seems to have it's "norm". l like 'em all... almost. There are a few places that produce genuinely awful pizza -- the Washington DC area produced the rankest I was aware of, using a cheese made from oil substitute, rather than actual cheese. They may have given that up since then... one can only hope so.
People always think the pizza from their own city is best -- it's what they're used to, I think.
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