From: "John Beamish" 

Your ignorance of Canada continues to astonish.

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
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>
> If Canadians remember 1812 at all it is only because so many resent the
> US today, not because the US was once militarily threatening, but
> because Canadians resent almost everything that is foreign and resent
> themselves in the process.
>
> When they at long last started to lose their Britishism, it was replaced
> not with Canadianism, but Americanism. Canadians are still searching for
> an identity and insofar as American culture seems destined to dominate
> Canada, naturally the US is resented and such passing trivia as 1812
> still galls.
>

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