July 1 is Canada Day or Dominion Day as I like to call because I admit right now that most displays of Canadian Nationalism I have recently seen distress me. Most of it is anti-American and strangely bellicose (Canada kicks Ass! for example). Canada has been a country that went about its business in a quiet and determined way. Not any more. The Americans have made a great nation which has given them the right to brag. The Americans are also very self-possessed. Seeing this makes many Canadians jealous. Many in Canada want us to be like America when the truth of the matter is we can't. We should really compare ourselves to Mexico and all of South America and see how fortunate we are, how much better we are. We are not a second fiddle nation; we are the second best country in the Americas. Not bad. And yet many Canadians think and act like second fiddle people. They have become the sort of people they accuse the Americans of being. They are stupidly nationalistic and jingoistic. America does criticize Canada but it isn't a fetish like it is for many Canadians who somehow think that there is a competition between the America and Us. Canadians, in fact, look down on Americans. Americans like Canada but mostly don't obsess about it....
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