First off, let me direct your attention to the information under my user name. I’m from Canada. I understand today is the Fourth of July. Americans celebrate this day because it is their independance day. Now, let me tell you something that just makes me laugh at some people’s ignorance.
This girl, she’s a friend of a friend. My friend gave me her MSN address so we could have a good chat. She’s really is funny and keeps me amused when I’m up at 2 in the morning trying to finish a chapter on a story I’m working on.
So, this morning, she messages me and says “Happy Fourth of July.” I tell her thanks, but I’m from Canada so it doesn’t apply to me. She askes me what I mean. How can I NOT celebrate the Fourth of July? I tell her that Canada tends to celebrate three days earlier for our own celebration day. She just couldn’t grasp that concept. (“Well, that’s certainly not every American of you.”) Yikes, she’s in her mid twenties, lives in Washington state and doesn’t know that Canada isn’t a part of the U.S.
I had a laughing fit. Then I tried to explain to her that Canada isn’t a US state, but a whole different country. She said “No way! But you guys pay taxes for us.”
We celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s in October and not November like the American Thanksgiving, but we do celebrate it. True it’s not for the original reason, but people who aren’t Catholic/Christian can still celebrate Christmas, if that puts it into any perspective.
Tim Horton is our President. He has been President for something like 40 years (I’m a little iffy on my history, sorry). When we pluralise it, Tim HortonS, it refers to the President and his cabinet, often refered to as the Company.
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And who says we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving?!?!?!
I was once chatting with some random American guy on ICQ or Mirc or whatever, and when he learned I am from Canada, he had a ball. . . teasing me about how we only have one or two intersections, and one or two tall buildings, and that there are absolutely no attractive women here (and that’s why Tom Green moved to the States, he informed me.) He joked that if I ever visited the U.S., I’d be overwhelmed by all the buildings, all the people, and all the traffic.
He wasn’t joking.
Another guy didn’t know the nation’s capital, or the name of our Prime Minister, even. I mean, that’s pretty darn basic, I think, given we’re neighbours and sometimes make the darned news.
Then again. . . A group of us were talking at work and a co-worker mentioned Independence Day by saying, “You know, the American Canada Day. Whatever it’s called.” heh
You know I have a friend of mine in London or somewhere there abouts and I asked him what he was doing for the fourth.
But, he loves me so he laughed and gently reminded me that we weren’t from the same plot of land.
I felt like a goof.
Sometimes I take for granted that just because I can talk to someone any time within minutes that we are all on the same continient.
I’m not worldly and I’m not stupid but age, race and location tend to be forgotten when chatting with someone whose company one enjoys.
The minute he laughed I realised my mistake and apologised and he said it was cool, that he had been to the states to see the fourth once and would love to come back.
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