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From: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: definitions of culture
Message-ID: <396@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 11:47:07 EST
Article-I.D.: cognos.396
Posted: Wed Feb 25 11:47:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 02:36:08 EST
References: <192@fornax.uucp>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
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In article <192@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp writes:
......

>However I think it is instructive to enumerate some examples   of
>our country's behaviour and see how it compares to other countries,
>and in particular in the context of free trade to see how it compares
>to the US; if only to get a "flavour" of the culture.

.....

>That's all off the top of my head. Anyone with more positive/negative
>examples?
>
>john

. Being a first generation Canadian of Chinese decent, I would praise the
  Canadian multicultural policy. It makes me feel equaly comfortable behaving
  in western or oriental manners as my mood suits me, neither of which is
  viewed as abnormal.

. An obvious difference between U.S. and Canada was demonstrated recently
  by the border refugee problems between U.S. and Canada. If the U.S. has as
  liberal and non-political refugee policy as Canada, these people would not
  be flooding from U.S. into Canada!

. Another difference can be viewed in the treatment of rights by our respective
  constitutions. U.S. tend to treat rights as absolute and literal, e.g. right
  to bear arms, whereas our charter of rights is worded in terms of reasonable,
  relative infringment etc. This gives the courts more power, but I think it
  creates less instances where everyone agrees that something is wrong, but the
  constitution says it is right.

disclaimer: I chose to be here, so I am biased.
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