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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (7 children)
[–] GrizzlyBur 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I can't tell whats more annoying: if they did it out of malice or indifference.

Either way, the cultural homogenizing effects of mass social media is a mistake and must be fought against. Countries that primarily speak English are at the greatest threat of this. If I had a magic genie I'd wish that Canadian's native language was anything other than English so people's minds wouldn't be so easily poisoned by all the dumb bullshit media the US produces. There are genuinely people in Canada who believe they have Second Amendment rights.

I've been saying this lately, but Canada as a whole needs to emulate what Quebec is doing to protect its cultural identity. Limit American media coming into the country. Defend and cultivate our unique cultural identity at all costs.

Anyone that says Canada is not distinguished culturally from America is ignorant. I am a dual citizen who has lived in and loved both countries. Just because we are neighbours, mostly white, and speak the same language, does not make us identical. We have a different social fabric. The biggest difference is that America is a extremely individualistic society, and Canadians are a collective society. I'd call us socialist, but that word immediately turns off the listening ears of Americans as they have been programmed since McCarthy to reject socialism in all forms -- even though America has dozens of socialist programs such as social security and food stamps. To explain socialist concepts to Americans you have to use synonyms. It's like feeding a dog a pill covered in fucking peanut butter. Gotta "trick" them to help them because they just don't understand otherwise. I don't wanna trick anybody I just wanna help but stupid fucking billionaires got these idiots convinced socialist concepts are gonna destroy the country. Oh no! We made your medications cheaper and allowed you to unionize so you can get better wages and job security! So evil! I swear, if you changed "Union Dues" to "Employment Insurance" they'd be all aboard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Anyone that says Canada is not distinguished culturally from America is ignorant.

This one struck me particularly delightfully because i've been getting into Letterkenny of all things and you very clearly do. Hell i can see that as an aussie,

Should add, that probably sounded incredibly puerile, but most of our english-speaking country media is still dominated by the uk and US (although NZ is making inroads) We don't get much Canadian stuff down here, the last big one was due south and that was very pastiche.

[–] dankm 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What @[email protected] said before me, but also, try out Corner Gas. It's family safe and also hilarious. It's been credited with introducing other Canadians to Saskatchewan culture since 2004.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Family safe is not a concern, but keep the recs coming

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