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Old 09-16-2021, 07:40 AM   #44
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero View Post
one gripe i have is that we dont have the identity of canada out here

in school we learned about the french the british the structure of parliment...like cool what about BC, the salish people?? i only very briefly recall haida from the curriculum

what commonalties do we have with ON? with NWT or NS? the culture here is way closer to that of Oregon or asia pacific

we're too isolated from the rest of the country..it's like russia
I hate when people say this, no BC is not closer to Oregon than Ontario. Have you been to either? Ontario (The GTA mostly, but thats where about half of them live) is full of itself sure but it still has the same institutions, demographics, urban form and dialect spoken as here. Outside of Portland and the coast, Oregon is basically Western Idaho and is full of Rednecks and White Nationalist survivalist types.

Closer to Asia-Pacific? Give me a break, Vancouver is nothing like the big Asian metropolises (I've been to them all) that's like saying New York is closer to Italy than the rest of the US because there's a lot of Guidos in Brooklyn.
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