As a Canadian, there's a lot in this that is sort of but not quite the same as my experience. Being situated so close to the US (and being saturated with their media) makes finding the differences between "them" and "us" both trickier and, for us at least, more important.
Your location and the cultural innundation must make it very difficult to find a separate identity as a nation.
I mean, yes, in Australia we do get saturated by American media, but also some British television, but we do have geographical difference, and we do have an accent and landscape which is fairly distinct from the United States.
In fact, I think you might hear some similar complaints from New Zealanders about being subsumed by Australia that Canadians get with the United States, but on a smaller scale.
Brisbane has been fine, we don't get the dry heat waves as much as the Southern States do at this time of year, or the bush fires *touch wood* but at the moment the North is going through flooding.
If it's not one natural disaster, it's always another.
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Date: 2009-02-05 02:45 am (UTC)Your location and the cultural innundation must make it very difficult to find a separate identity as a nation.
I mean, yes, in Australia we do get saturated by American media, but also some British television, but we do have geographical difference, and we do have an accent and landscape which is fairly distinct from the United States.
In fact, I think you might hear some similar complaints from New Zealanders about being subsumed by Australia that Canadians get with the United States, but on a smaller scale.
Brisbane has been fine, we don't get the dry heat waves as much as the Southern States do at this time of year, or the bush fires *touch wood* but at the moment the North is going through flooding.
If it's not one natural disaster, it's always another.