If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a … - Bruce McCall

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I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

Bruce McCall

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up. " The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. . . . They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

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