Re: “Canadian, eh? The hole truth”, article in the Toronto Star, Jan.20, 2008
Christine Sismondo, apparently with all sincerity, wrote that one characteristic of “what makes us Canadian” is “a shared distain [sic] of our neighbours to the south.”
Firstly, did this writer mean ‘disdain’?
Secondly, which monolithic “us” does Sismondo refer to, who have such a laughably biased attitude? Does her mythical “us” mainly consist of like-minded boorish Toronto Star readers, to whom such an assertion would be a naturally accepted dogma?
Sorry, I don’t subscribe to Sismondo’s blanket contention that Canadians define themselves by denigrating Americans.
Mostly, that's the department of Canada's NDPeers and the Liberals. It's in their DNA, isn't it?
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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