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Originally Posted by pj3000
American comments just may be a reaction to what seems to be an attempt to completely disassociate Toronto/Ontario from a geographic region in which it is located and to which has been economically intricately connected to for a century and a half. It's particularly interesting when we consider the fact that Toronto became Toronto largely due to US companies establishing plants in Ontario back in the day. GE, Westinghouse, DuPont, Wrigley, Goodyear, Colgate-Palmolive... just to name a few of the biggies aside from GM and Ford. Understandably, that manufacturing base on longer exists in the same way (nor does it across the border), but shedding a century-plus history of well-established ties to a region (not to mention shedding the actual physiographic region itself  ) ain't so easy. |
The reactions from American forumer are just the latest in a long-standing tradition of condescension and arrogance - thinking to better understand the nuances of Canada (or insert other foreign country) than the people who actually live there do. Notice how it's
only Americans claiming that Ontario is more like/more connected to the US Great Lakes than it is to other parts Canada (yet would the same not be true in reverse?), while
all of the Canadian forumers seem to be objecting to that? Shouldn't that be a clue, that maybe you're missing something and that they might understand more about their own country than you do; and that just maybe, that not quite everything there revolves around the US?
Gee, almost makes you wonder why so few non-Americans still post here...
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