Apr. 30th, 2004 05:20
Who's Canadian
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With the help of a cute little program called WireTap, I recorded a bunch of radio programs from NPR and other sources and burned a disc for my roadtrip to the March for Women last weekend. One of the programs I put on the disc was Who's Canadian - notes and stories about the Canadians among us. It's my favorite episode of This American Life, and one of my favorite radio shows ever. The first portion of the show talks about how many of the prominent people in American culture are actually Canadian, and in this clip (about two minutes) a Canadian talks about how Canadians always know who the other Canadians are. It's as if they have a Canadian-recognition chip implanted in their brain, he says.
Off the top of my head, I can think of several Canadians on my LJ friends list:
bassringer,
choucroute,
ert,
jasonkelly,
ladymondegreen,
emerlion... I got to thinking, who else is Canadian? Are there any on my friends list who I don't realize are Canadian, or I've just forgotten? They do tend to blend in.
So, come on! You Canadians on my friends list should be able to tell me who the other Canadians are, right? Fess up and reveal yourselves and your countrymen!
Off the top of my head, I can think of several Canadians on my LJ friends list:
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So, come on! You Canadians on my friends list should be able to tell me who the other Canadians are, right? Fess up and reveal yourselves and your countrymen!
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Although I haven't run into other people and suddenly my brain told me they were Canadian ('cause I don't meet many other Canadians), I have been discovered by people who caught my slight accent. Someone once guessed it from the way I said "tomorrow". O.o
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How'd you become one?
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Thanks for pointing out this application! This completely makes my day.
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(For two year of my life, I had lived more in Canada than the US, and far more of the formative ones, so I considered myself Canadian. I think I can still sing O Canada and God Save the Queen, like we did every day in Grade One (not "first grade").)
These days I have fun recognizing people from the Bay Area.
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and also. I am so totally canadian, even if I've spent the last 3 months and will be still here for another month in the states.
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Did you listen to that show? Or at least the short clip I posted an mp3 of?
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After 3 days in Toronto, people mistake my accent for that of a local.
Of course, for the majority of my life (28 years of it) I lived in states adjacent to Canada. I still listen to CBC radio.
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When I visit Toronto, I feel a lot more like I've just travelled to another state than when I visit most parts of the US. Toronto's more Bostonlike than anywhere in Colorado, for example.
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It probably is the most American of the Canadian cities, though.
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I could find places in any Ontario city where I could get buttered cucumber sandwiches with tea. Are there any such places in Boston?
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(I have French citizenship! Can I still be cool?)