Re: CHAT: University Advice (was Re: A bit of advice)
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 11, 2000, 22:41 |
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Cathy Whitlock wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/11/2000 10:12:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:
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> << Ah, but you omit Canada's rebellion against the United States:
> the War of 1812. (You won, we lost.) >>
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> Funny, after a year of Canadian history, my teacher never mentioned that. It
> seemed like the book was selected American history regurgitated to make
> Canada sound like an American protogé. I don't think the teacher put much
> effort into finding a good book either. Its title was "Canada: A North
> American Nation"... I mean, if you can't come up with a better name than that
> for a book containing an entire nation's history, you are in serious
> imaginative trouble!
In Canada, it's quite the opposite: The War of 1812, and more
importantly, our victory in it, is one of the first things
schoolchildren, in Toronto at least, learn during Canadian history.
Canada's history is fairly uninteresting, especially when you are being
forced to learn it by a teacher who knows nothing, so the people who
write books about it are also a fairly uninteresting and unoriginal
bunch, I'd imagine.
--
Robert