Happy Canada Day!
Canada's new identity:
So maybe there is a Canadian identity emerging from all of this. Adams reprints in his book a 2002 New Yorker cartoon showing a man and woman in evening dress having cocktails. The man says, "You seem familiar, yet somehow strange -- are you by any chance Canadian?"
But consider how maddening it must be to live next door to a country that has almost 10 times your own country's population, and significantly more money, science, art and adrenaline to show for it.
One way to come into your own as a Canadian is to look at what Americans are up to -- and do the opposite.
Canada can say it's Canada because it has gay marriage, universal health care, gun control and so on, and America doesn't.
Says Griffiths: "I think if the United States ever got a handle on universal health care and gun control, Canada would have a major identity crisis on its hands."
oh yea, and they have some awesome rock and roll bands, too.
So maybe there is a Canadian identity emerging from all of this. Adams reprints in his book a 2002 New Yorker cartoon showing a man and woman in evening dress having cocktails. The man says, "You seem familiar, yet somehow strange -- are you by any chance Canadian?"
But consider how maddening it must be to live next door to a country that has almost 10 times your own country's population, and significantly more money, science, art and adrenaline to show for it.
One way to come into your own as a Canadian is to look at what Americans are up to -- and do the opposite.
Canada can say it's Canada because it has gay marriage, universal health care, gun control and so on, and America doesn't.
Says Griffiths: "I think if the United States ever got a handle on universal health care and gun control, Canada would have a major identity crisis on its hands."
oh yea, and they have some awesome rock and roll bands, too.