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Old Posted Apr 12, 2021, 9:15 PM
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Originally Posted by someone123 View Post
We tend to see differences more but the permissible behaviours in Canada amount to a very narrow range in the overall spectrum of human social norms that currently exist around the world.

It's absolutely standard to downplay North American culture and history in general (e.g. McMansions and burgers and freeways are seen as "generic", not a part of shared culture here), partly because it's been exported then reimported so much, partly because a lot of it is American, and partly because some of it is low status.
Anglo-Canadian and American oikophobia is cringey, pathetic, and sometimes condescending.