Re: America and Canada (was Re: Installing Panther on B/W G3)

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:32:41 -0500, Sheldon Simms
<sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:01:23 -0500, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>
>> Well, I lived in Germany for four years back in the 80's and back
>> then, we made sure everyone knew we were Canadian and not "American"
>> as there were quite a few people there that didn't much care for
>> people from the US but liked Canadians just fine.
>
>Quatsch... I never met a single person who didn't like "Americans".
>I met people who didn't like US politics, but Americans as individuals,
>no problem. (unless they turned out individually to be jerks, but
>that goes for every nationality).

True.  I never delved into why they disliked people from the USA but I
do know I was treated a lot more friendliness when the people I met
over there found out I was Canadian.

>> I've never heard anything about this.  Are the Canadian and US postal
>> services trying to merge or something?
>
>Just my wishful thinking...

Ah.  I was wondering why I hadn't heard about something of that large
a scale.  :-)

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