New to the group and a question

[Mike Oliver]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:37:05PM -0400, moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
>>My experience as an American in Canada:  If you don't tell them,
>>they usually can't tell.  That's in spite of my peculiar
>>Cal-Tex accent with a little Mississippi mixed in there
>>somewhere.
> 
> If you don't tell them where you are from, most likely they just don't
> care or maybe just don't think about it.  There are people from just
> about everywhere in Canada, and this doesn't seem to be a problem for
> anyone in general.

I'm talking about cases where it specifically came up.  I mentioned
that this would be the first time since I was a little boy that I'd
lived in a place where there was much snow, and I was asked if I
came from B.C.

>>Canadians like to think they're very different from Americans,
>>but with the exception of politics, they mostly aren't.
> 
> I don't think I have ever met a canadian that thought the place they
> grew up and the place they currently live were very important features
> of their personality.

Actually, to be honest, I found Canadians to be very conscious
of being Canadian.  One might even say "nationalistic".  That
was a bit of a surprise; I had expected them to think of
nationalism as unsophisticated and bourgeois.
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