Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

>Robert Hailman wrote:
>
>> That's what makes Canadian TV so much fun. I wonder how much stuff they
>> edit out, because some people know something about Canada. Did you know
>> that most Americans don't know that Canada is the only nation to burn
>> the US capital to the ground?
>
>Which is why the War of 1812 was Canada's War of Independence ... from the
>U.S.
>Canada is also the only nation that a U.S. private army once invaded.
>(The Canadians won.)
It's interesting that when Americans talk about the War of 1812, they
speak of it as a war against the *British*, not the (British) Canadians.
I guess this makes sense, insofar as Canada was a British colony at the
time, but it seems to imply that there were no Canadians involved in
the war at all--or that all of the people living in Canada at the time were
British.

It seems that the Americans' determination to ignore Canada extends
even to discussions of wars which were fought with Canada.  :-)

Matt.