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Originally Posted by Andy6
I've known a lot of Americans in Toronto who were basically lost outside of the universe of brands and consumer goods that they knew. And those were supposedly sophisticated graduate students and professionals, not basketball players. We're conscious of Canada's near-total irrelevance everywhere outside of Canada and it's consequently easy for us to substitute Walgreen's for Shoppers Drug Mart or Comcast for Rogers. That ease of psychological adjustment is not reciprocal at all ... it's as if they've never even considered that there could be a place where the touchstones of their material universe aren't recognized (even if it's just Cap'n Crunch).
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Very elegantly put. I think the first reckoning for me that we were on the outside looking in was while watching Saturday morning cartoons. There was something that you could get by writing to "Rockville, Maryland," and the first time I saw it I instinctively knew it wasn't for us.
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