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Pretending Canada or Iceland or Norway are some kind of utopia where everyone is rich, in perfect health, eats pixie dust, and shits rainbows isn't doing anyone
by StaticRedux 8y ago
Pretending Canada or Iceland or Norway are some kind of utopia where everyone is rich, in perfect health, eats pixie dust, and shits rainbows isn't doing anyone any favors.
Those countries have their own problems, even if they aren't the same as in the United States.
Different cultures, different economies, different priorities.
You can't solve a problem by saying "look how awesome this homogenous country with a population the size of a medium sized US city is!".
That argument will always fall flat on it's face. And on deaf ears.
Certainly we can and should learn from other countries. But it's getting really tiring to hear these empty arguments trying to hold some other country up as some kind of wonderous Paradise when it's simply not true.
- grawprog 8y agoAs a Canadian, I agree with what you say....except for the shitting rainbows part. That totally happens up here.
- josv 8y agoAs a Canadian, I hear frequently from Americans that Canada is a homogeneous place. I imagine there are a lot of different ways to measure that, but for what it's worth, per StatsCan Canada has the highest foreign-born population in the G8[1]. Subjectively, Toronto feels amazingly polyglot compared to most large US cities I've spent time in. (Although, as in the US, there's a lot of geographic variation.) Not to invalidate your point, but that particular assumption always strikes me as dubious. 1. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011001-eng.cfm https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-0...
- StaticRedux 8y agoI was referring to Iceland/Norway more there.