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[Blademonkey]

I'd have to ask Mr. Google but I think the proliferation of US troops in (West) Germany was even greater but as we share a common language the influence has been more substantial.

Yes you are probably right but the UK is a small long and narrow air strip like island where West Germany is a much larger land mass. P.

 

[Boru62]

Yes you are probably right but the UK is a small long and narrow air strip like island where West Germany is a much larger land mass. P.

True and the Germans hopefully don't have yellow school buses, school proms and loads of actors perfecting the American accent on screen.

 

[Jacobite]

That brings back fond memories. I took part in a High School student exchange with a US school 50 years ago. At a house party there was a testy political exchange where I was asked how Canada would like to become their 51st state. I replied that we would be happy to accept them as our 3rd Territory. We only had 2 back then but now they would have to settle for 4th. Hell of a good house party iirc.

Bob

Although it has changed in the past 50 years, Canadians were sometimes worried that as nearly their entire population lives within shouting distance of the US border, many Canadian people often felt they had more in common with the specific Yanks just across the border than they did with their own countrymen a thousand miles away. For example, when people in the rural areas of the Maritimes or Quebec thought of moving to a city they thought of Boston or the textile mill towns of New England rather than the cities in the Canadian interior. Likewise, grain farmers or cattlemen in western Canada certainly had much more in common with US ranchers/farmers than they did with angry Francophones in Montreal or Quebec. The behaviour of the US since the 80s, the tamping of the Quebec independence movement, and a growing sense of Canadian national identity have all contributed to lessen the worries some had a couple generations ago, but those fears were real. Had Quebec peeled themselves from the Canadian Confederation in the 70s, who knows what might have happened?

 

[R181]

Although it has changed in the past 50 years, Canadians were sometimes worried that as nearly their entire population lives within shouting distance of the US border, many Canadian people often felt they had more in common with the specific Yanks just across the border than they did with their own countrymen a thousand miles away. For example, when people in the rural areas of the Maritimes or Quebec thought of moving to a city they thought of Boston or the textile mill towns of New England rather than the cities in the Canadian interior. Likewise, grain farmers or cattlemen in western Canada certainly had much more in common with US ranchers/farmers than they did with angry Francophones in Montreal or Quebec. The behaviour of the US since the 80s, the tamping of the Quebec independence movement, and a growing sense of Canadian national identity have all contributed to lessen the worries some had a couple generations ago, but those fears were real. Had Quebec peeled themselves from the Canadian Confederation in the 70s, who knows what might have happened?

No worries, still in no rush to become the 51st state especially now.

Bob

 

[Jacobite]

No worries, still in no rush to become the 51st state especially now.

Bob

Amen, Bob. I'm thinking about retiring to Cape Breton in a couple years.

 

[R181]

Amen, Bob. I'm thinking about retiring to Cape Breton in a couple years.

Great place and people. It used to be said that a Cape Bretoner was a Newfie who got lost on the way to Toronto.

Bob