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From: bjorn@alberta.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: 'Free' Trade?
Message-ID: <215@pembina.alberta.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 05:48:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 05:48:46 1987
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In article <827@ubc-cs.UUCP>, andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
> In article <1469@hcrvx1.UUCP> chrisr@hcrvx1.UUCP (Chris Retterath) writes:
> >As for Americans buying out Canadian culture, don't hold your breath.
> 
>      Exactly.  Why do that when they can simply up the power on
> their transmitting stations and widen the distribution of their
> magazines, and rake in all sorts of extra profit without having
> to cater to their new market?

Your statement is contradictory.  If simply by making their
product more accessible US media vendors will be able to "rake
in all sorts of extra profit", they are obviously catering to
A MARKET.  I have this sneaky suspicion that you would like to
define for others how they should be catered to.  You don't have
to watch US tv and you don't have to read US rags.  Cultural
control in the form of a force fed "approved" diet coupled with
restricted access to, and censorship of "non-approved" material
I find rather odious.  What I'm seeing is `cultural nationalism'
and an inferiority complex.  A common phenomenon in some countries,
usually directed at the US.  I do speak from experience.


	Shape my mind it's malleable,

		Bjorn R. Bjornsson
		bjorn@alberta