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From: chrisr@hcrvx1.UUCP (Chris Retterath)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: 'Free' Trade? -- culture
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Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 16:15:48 EST
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!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews writes:
>Americans think of Canada as "that place where our winter storms
>come from".  Opening up Canada to the American media would mean
>opening up Canada to a view of the world in which America is
>disproportionately more important than Canada.

Face it, folks, we Anglos in Canada are a part of a North American
popular culture. As the market is so big, we have to be louder to be heard;
unlike, say, the Aussies on the other side of the globe.

Eighty years ago there were Canadians griping about their puny
voice in an Imperial Britain that encompassed the world. The same 
kind of people today worry about the small mention of Canada in American
news.

It's like some insecure hick wanting everyone to know about the little
burgh he grew up in. Or some snob in hogtown assuring you that Toronto
is the cultural equivalent of New York City.

Well, Canada may be a great place to live, but Americans don't have
to be interested in it. By the same token, we are usually not interested
in American politics at the state level. It just doesn't concern us most
of the time, and, like Americans, we don't watch things we don't care
about. The media merely reflects these preferences.

None of this, of course, has anything to do with free trade.

	Chris Retterath.