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- I believe we should leave the designation of what a country's citizens are called alone
Canadians...........Yes
Mexicans............Yes
Usians..............Big No.......Americans works just fine for me. gmctoyman wrote:
And here I thought Canada was in America !
Noper. Canada is in North America...along with Mexico of course.- And here I thought Canada was in America !
Orion wrote:
A family member works for a company that has operations on both sides of the border and has to contact them all on a regular basis.
She has a couple of surprising observations.
The first is how much LOWER the incomes are in the US for the exact same jobs.
Ah, but their $ go further. Or did your relative say anything about their standard of living.
'Tis true except that one e-acquaintance of mine and his wife, both 64 have recently run into health costs, tres terrible health $. Such are making them think of moving to Ecuador.
:C- I have been reading these posts and have felt all kinds of emotional reactions within myself. I have been angry, sad, happy, relieved, surprised, shocked. I have laughed and felt like crying.
The thing is we do live in different countries. We eat, speak, spell, respect, drive, police, elect and run our governments very different. All these things are what makes us able to enjoy foods, shopping, vacations etc. If we wanted the same we would stay at home.
It is wrong to judge how others live but we are human. We all, not only Americans and Canadians find fault in other countries and people. We are not perfect.
I travel because of these differences. I want to hear the quirky accents in Canada and the US and the rest of the world. I don't make fun of them but try to understand them. Learn new words, new meaning.
We all have opinions, we don't want to be the same, think the same. We are living in different cultures and a great thing about that is we can have forums like this. We can all learn from each other. None of us are any better than others. We all have something to offer each other, "respect". Orion wrote:
A family member works for a company that has operations on both sides of the border and has to contact them all on a regular basis.
She has a couple of surprising observations.
The first is how much LOWER the incomes are in the US for the exact same jobs.
The second is how much more polite they are in the US operations, especially in the South!
Thank you'll kindly for those nice words, honey child.- A family member works for a company that has operations on both sides of the border and has to contact them all on a regular basis.
She has a couple of surprising observations.
The first is how much LOWER the incomes are in the US for the exact same jobs.
The second is how much more polite they are in the US operations, especially in the South! - During my employed life I had a job that took me "up north" on a weekly to monthly basis, working at a location that employed both US and Canadians.
I used to tell the Canadians that any time I got bored with watching our politics, I would just look north, 'cause their Politicians were always funnier then ours. - I like Chocolate Digestive Biscuits with a nice cup of tea! (Hot tea of course, how can you drink cold tea? Yuk! that's like cold gravy!) :)
- We paint those biscuits black and use them for hockey pucks
