Was it better that our ancestors chose to migrate to Canada, or should they have gone to the U.S.? Snow and ice and high taxes? Or unaffordable health care, guns in kindergarten, and great weather? And didn`t they have to film the hit movie Chicago in Canada because we had the studios, the gaffers, and the 65 cent dollar? What about our national dreams? Gould defines the American Dream as the obligation for every American to achieve fame, fortune, and a trophy wife up to one-half the age of the first one, but only after he accomplishes the first two. The Canadian Dream is to pay a serviceman in cash to avoid the GST, to go to Hawaii (if you live in B.C.), and to be able to move to the U.S. to make real dollars. And what about our different political systems? In the U.S. there is serious debate about campaign finance reform; in Canada, we turn to Hansard to follow a similar discussion: "Oh shut up." "YOU shut up." "Up yours!" "Oh yeah? You`d probably enjoy that, Svend." G.I. Joe and Anne of Green Gables could be just about the funniest book you`ll read this fall.
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- C818/.5402
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- 21
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- 9781459307452 1550226029
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- PR9199.3.G653
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- A5 2003eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 190 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Introduction: Caught Between Irate and a Cold Place 11
- Part 1 First Things First: Language, History, and Fame 15
- The Gouldster's Canadian-American Dictionary, or, "What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate" 17
- Our Country Then and Now 23
- Native Land: or, Where Were You Born, Anyway? 29
- Part 2 Symbols: Official and Otherwise 31
- National Emblems 33
- Our Two National Anthems 39
- Monarchism Versus Republicanism: or, The Grass Is Always Greener 53
- Barbie: Icon of Womanhood, Model for Millions, Slut? 61
- Bumper Stickers: Poetry in Motion 65
- Part 3 Seats of Power 69
- Let Us Compare Leaders 71
- The Senate 87
- Great Words from Great Statesmen 93
- Part 4 Our Men and Women in Uniform: or, "Nice Forest Camouflage, Too Bad You're in the Desert" 97
- Our (Poorly) Armed Forces 99
- Bombs Away 103
- Friendly Fire 107
- Part 5 "Neither Hail, Not Sleet, Nor Snow .. .": or, How the Countries Run 109
- Flying the Friendly Skies 111
- Deliver da Letter, Da Sooner da Better 115
- On the Air 119
- The Romance of Rail Travel 123
- Taking a Nation's Measure 127
- Citizen, Heal Thyself 135
- Crime and Punishment 139
- Part 6 Crossing the Longest (Formerly) Undefended Border in the World 147
- Canadian and American Responses to 9/11 149
- The Fine Art of Air Travel 153
- Part 7 Fun and Games 161
- Our National Sports 163
- A Note on Sovereignly and Sports 169
- Pass Me a Cold One: Beer in Canada 171
- Beautiful Words: Our Country's Literature 175
- Trash Tidings 177
- Adopt-a-Child, United States: Adopt-a-Child, Canada 181
- In Conclusion, (F)Eh? 189
