CANADIAN RE: RE: Football/Soccer Chatter

[Darren Reely]

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Matt, and other interested spectators,

Every "American" here I showed 'The Rant' to had a good laugh also.  It was in good fun after all.  [:-)] 

And yes, most people think they are from the 'best' country in the world.  I also grew up in the best city, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  The Yanks get bad press about this because they seem to like to listen to them self's saying it.  And they say it often.  Well according to the rest of the world.  Or at least as Canadians witness it too often on imported TV shows of all types. Maybe it is time to keep it a secret.  [;-)] 

Here is a small story of biased American media focus. During the 92' Olympics, I was working in Canada with a company that had a lot of imported Americans. As people do we were talking about the coverage we saw, then one American noted how 'more' balanced the reporting of the athletes was on the Canadian TV compared to the U.S. coverage.  He went on to say he favored watching the Canadian view, because he got to learn more about the compititors, who were mostly mentioned in cursory ways by the American media.  The interesting thing to me was how easily he recognized the problem, and how open about it he was.  Since moving to the States I've found that many of my new friends are aware the unbalanced American media.

As for the timber wars the Americans usually lose in the World Trade Court. I'll leave that political bouncing ball to the special interest groups.  Oh, I mean the politicians.

This has been fun,

Darren


Matt Wrote:
> Speaking as a "U.S American" who saw the 'The Rant' ad, I thought it was
> hilarious.  And I suspect that not very many U.S. citizens got that upset
> about it. I also suspect that the on-going timber and logging trade battles
> had more to do with the Oregonians being short tempered about any kind
> Canadians comments. (I'm sure tempers are short on both sides of the border
> on that one.)

> As for thinking that the U.S. is the best country in the world... Well, of
> course we think that. Don't Canadians think the same thing about Canada and
> the English about England and the French about France?  [;-)]   And we're all
> right, of course.  [:-)] 

> Matt  [:-)] 


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Matt, and other interested spectators,

Every "American" here I showed 'The Rant' to had a good laugh also.  It was in good fun after all.


And yes, most people think they are from the 'best' country in the world.  I also grew up in the best city, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  The Yanks get bad press about this because they seem to like to listen to them self's saying it.  And they say it often.  Well according to the rest of the world.  Or at least as Canadians witness it too often on imported TV shows of all types. Maybe it is time to keep it a secret.


Here is a small story of biased American media focus. During the 92' Olympics, I was working in Canada with a company t
hat had a lot of imported Americans. As people do we were talking about the coverage we saw, then one American noted how 'more' balanced the reporting of the athletes was on the Canadian TV compared to the U.S. coverage.  He went on to say he favored watching the Canadian view, because he got to learn more about the compititors, who were mostly mentioned in cursory ways by the American media.  The interesting thing to me was how easily he recognized the problem, and how open about it he was.  Since moving to the States I've found that many of my new friends are aware the unbalanced American media.

As for the timber wars the Americans usually lose in the World Trade Court. I'll leave that political bouncing ball to the special interest groups.  Oh, I mean the politicians.

This has been fun,

Darren


Matt Wrote:
> Speaking as a "U.S American" who saw the 'The Rant' ad, I thought it was
> hilarious.  And I suspect that n
ot very many U.S. citizens got that upset
> about it. I also suspect that the on-going timber and logging trade battles
> had more to do with the Oregonians being short tempered about any kind
> Canadians comments. (I'm sure tempers are short on both sides of the border
> on that one.)

> As for thinking that the U.S. is the best country in the world... Well, of
> course we think that. Don't Canadians think the same thing about Canada and
> the English about England and the French about France?
  And we're all
> right, of course.


> Matt



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