On 5/20/2013 10:43 PM, wy wrote:
> This is a classic case
http://www.happierabroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17072
Canada, the second biggest country on Earth, is a pretty strange place
if you think really about it. It would take most people a while to
figure out why, so I'll make it easy and tell you in my opinion why,
backed up by facts. I've lived in various places in Canada for about 30
of my 40 years. although I was born in the Capital of Canada to Canadian
parents, my mindset and upbringing does not fit the mold of your
standard blue collar Canadian white guy, so I don't fit in here. My
father is Canadian born, but is the opposite of most people here, and
worked most of his life abroad due to his job. He is very educated, but
not used to dealing with the average Canadians like I am so has a
different view if things. Given his job he was used to dealing with the
elite of Canada and foreign countries. My mum is german born and that
had a huge influence on my life. When my parents first hired Filipina
maids 33 years ago, I connected with the culture there immediately and
fell in love with it after my first visit there.
You have to wonder why such an absolutely huge place, second only to
Russia in size, only has about 35 million people living there, most of
them near the US border. Yes, you guessed it, for half of the year,
Canada is a vast frozen wasteland of snow and ice, from east to west and
north to south. Most Canadians take this for granted and grin and bear
it, so most locals here are some pretty tough and hearty people. If you
don't like extreme cold however you will hate it here from about October
to April. Spring and fall are cool, but summer is usually very hot and
humid. The most mild climates are Victoria and Vancouver, where I live
and they are the only places I am prepared to live in Canada. The
problem is I no longer want to live in Vancouver, so that means the only
solution is to leave Canada.
I think that if Canada were the same size but in at a lower latitude,
it's population would be like the USA. Most Canadians brag about how big
the country is and how it is bigger than the USA. This is true, but I
would much rather have the USA as a territory to live in, it is only a
bit smaller and has mild climates all year round in southern areas.
Canada is like one big Alaska, and most of it is unlivable. Just look at
the northern territories of Canada, the area is huge and only 100,000
people live there. So the hostile weather has a huge reason on the small
population here. Just look at other countries with Canada's size, like
China, USA, and Brazil, they have huge populations. Canada's massive
size works against it, because it makes traveling areal time consuming
affair. It even has 6 time zones, so going somewhere usually involves a
long time and lot of money. So traveling or doing business here is a
real headache because you have a small population spread across a huge
area and a very hostile climate.
Canada's leader is a Woman and lives in another country. Most Canadians
themselves are not aware the the Supreme leader of Canada is the Queen
of England. Due to this, Canada is a well established matriarchy from
the very top down, just like most of the Commonwealth and Anglosphere.
About 95% of Canadian men are manginas and don't realize it. They think
that calling their wife the boss and having her in charge is totally
normal. In fact, in Canada, Womens and Mens roles are reversed from the
natural system. Women are in charge and look and act masculine like Men
do in Male power societies, and the Men act submissive like foreign
women do in male power societies. Most men here have never known
anything else, and assume this is the way it is everywhere. If they
stood up to their wife, she would divorce him and he would have to give
up half of what he owns and pay alimony just like in the USA. So
marriage here is fraud, but most men don't realize it because they are
so desperate to get a woman they sign the contract and become slaves.
Canada was recently picked as the best country in the world to be a
woman. They forgot to mention that any country where it is the best
place to be a woman is probably the worst place in the world to be a
man. Funny how they never write articles about the best countries in the
world to be a man, only the best place to be woman. I am now convinced
that if Afghanistan is the worst country in the world to be a woman,
Canada has to be the worst country in the world to be a man
The Natives that were living here for thousands of years before Canada
was "discovered", hate the white people and always have and will. They
hate all the other people from all over the world that decided to live
here also. Just like in the USA, the British and French that came here
500 years ago decimated the Native populations with war and disease, and
said tough luck if you don't like it. Just like in the USA, the Natives
here live in poverty on reservations. They have a much lower standard of
living than others and have low life expectancy, high unemployment, high
AIDS rate, high crime rate, high suicide rate, high drug and alcohol
rate and just about every other bad statistic you can think of. If you
were to go to a Native reservation in Canada, you would think that you
have just gone to a third world country. The native reservations are
absent from tourist brochures and travel guides. To make up for killing
most of them and ruining the lifestlye, culture, land and history the
Canadian government gives the natives tax free status and pretty much
anything else for free. They also always get lenient crime sentences
compared to others. This will never change. The natives will never like
the whites, or other immigrants and the immigrants will never get along
with the natives.
The French people will never get along with the English or other people,
and vice versa. The largest Province in Canada, Quebec is mostly French
speaking, and every 20 years or so they threaten to separate from Canada
and become a country called Quebec, not a province. Every time Canada
votes on if Quebec should separate or not, the separatists always lose,
and Canada stay together until another vote comes along some years
later. This will never change. They will never get along. For hundreds
of years England and France were bitter enemies in Europe and this
continues to show in Canada, where they have political and language
battles. Canada has French and English as official languages, so
everything has to be in both. It's especially bad in Quebec where they
actually have a "Language Police" that goes around making sure that
everything is in French first and then English. If you have a English
only sign, you face heavy fines and punishment. To realize how extreme
the language police get, a few years ago the Quebec government refused
to pay for a disabled Quebec woman's assistance dog because the dog only
understood commands in English and not French!
Canada is always trying to keep American culture out, an impossible feat
when the USA is your best friend and next door neighbor. Canada is
trying to establish it's own culture, and not have to much of an
influence from the USA. This will never succeed, the USA is simply too
strong and too close. Canada is always coming up with silly rules to
keep American culture out, and Canadians are always trying to find new
and creative ways to circumvent these laws. If you are an American and
are used to things you can easily get there, you will go crazy here.
Most things American are blocked or don't work here. Your satellite
system is illegal here, your video or audio streaming website won't work
unless you have a US IP address. Most websites you bought from in the
USA won't ship to Canada. Even the superbowl commercials are blocked. TV
and Radio has a 35% Canadian content rule. So for every 100 TV shows or
Songs on the Radio, 35 have to be Canadian. A thriving underground
market of ways to bypass all these laws exist. Most Canadians do a lot
of shopping in the USA, and have PO box addresses near the border to
have shipments sent too and then picked up there.