How The World Sees Canada II – Cultural Impressions
Posted November 22, 2007 12:00 pm.
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We’re all endlessly polite. (Sorry, pardon us for saying so.)
We always say “eh.”
We live in igloos and it’s cold all summer.
Everybody speaks French.
We’re all like Bob and Doug McKenzie.
We’re beer swilling, donut eating, hockey lovers.
O.K. so maybe some stereotypes about Canada ring a little more true than others. But according to a new Maclean’s/ CityNews poll, sometimes those ideas aren’t far from the minds of people in other nations. In the second of three reports, Merella Fernandez outlines what researchers found when they took the concept of “Canada” to other parts of the world.
