"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
news:BDD75D01.2D91D%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>
> Probably it has something to do with most of them being educated
> professional types. Many of my Canadian friends are fellow lawyers.

I knew it.......

> It is
> usually the lower classes who bash the States because of their own
> self-inadequacies.
>

Must be true then, a lawyer said it.

Patronising bastard