Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!news3.optonline.net!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!pd7tw3no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.83.57.105 From: murchadh@shaw.ca (Murchadh) Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.welsh,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why do British hate american culture? Message-ID: <401bef02.6227674@news> References: <40195fee.7920058@news> <4019c063.3574960@news> <401a80ca.1115063@news> <5fdm10hqh1pvgfh1kh9mtsscfbdc7pbuq7@4ax.com> <401b6c38.33653270@news> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 64 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 19:02:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.69.255.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: pd7tw3no 1075575741 24.69.255.232 (Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:02:21 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:02:21 MST Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:11738 On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:01:30 +0900, Raj Feridun wrote: >On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:11:20 GMT, murchadh@shaw.ca (Murchadh) wrote: >And it has just been >>announced that British Columbia has the highest cancer cure rates in >>the world; a record I'm proud to have contributed to. > >First of all congratulations on your recovery. That is awesome. I'm sprry, I phrased that extremely badly - I didn't have cancer; my wife did and in fact it was detected too late to save her. However, I subsequently raised money to purchase pocket-sized chemo-therapy pumps for patients so they could go to work and live normally while receiving measured does of chemo instead of having to spend all day having a week's supply blasted into their systems and then in too many case spending days at home recivering from the chemocal onmslaught. Most cancer patients are broke for obvious reasons and being able to go to work is a huge benefit, both financially and for the morale. >Canada is a lovely country which I have enjoyed every time I've had >the privilege to visit. > >>I'm also proud of Canada for treating its natives as human beings and >>handing back their land and right to self-rule, which by the way is >>working out pretty well. I was lucky, I was able to choose the country > >I also feel lucky that even though I didn't get to choose my >nationality I was born in what I consider the greatest country on >Earth. I feel the same way about my country, Scotland. I'm very [proud of what we gave the world in terms of inventions out of all proportion to our tiny numbers as a people and also our philosophy of commonsense and protecting all our citizens, parts of which still form a large part of the American ethos and are essentially the basis on which Canada is run. > >>I emigrated to and chose Canada above all the others, including the US >>which I think is a lovely country with some fabulous people, but under >>all the perfect smiles, is essentially a police state where personal >>freedom is much more limited than in Canada. > >Speaking of 1973 have you ever heard or read a transcript of Canadian >syndicated broadcaster, Gordon Sinclair's famous "The Americans" >broadcast from Toronto? > >It is amazing how it still stands up so well today, 31 years later and >20 years after Mr. Sinclair's passing. > >http://www.skfriends.com/tribute-usa.htm#The%20Americans > >Raj I have no quarrel with Mr. Sinclair's panegyric and have often repeated parts of it to those denigrating the US. I am sure that you and I have no quarrel and I find myself comfortable with the more liberal elements of your society, although I do have a strong distaste for the extreme right and left wing in US politics. Murchadh.