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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 9 months ago

Why is Canada more romanticized than the other commonwealth countries lead by Britain?

What about Canada is so romanticized unlike other countries in the British led commonwealth like say Australia, South Africa, India as well as Great Britain. I am guessing it's a combination of different thing like it's large French-Speaking Province Quebec combined with it's more mythical northern hemisphere vibe and plus its the history of both French and British colonization that founded it there. Among other things of course. What do you think though?

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  • gerald
    Lv 7
    9 months ago
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    You are probably right Luke it was French and Wolfe took Quebec sailing up the river , and the Yanks tried to steal it in 1812 and British forces burned down the Whitehouse so it is special in that way but long gone no heroes here mate 

  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    I think you spelled led as "lead" which is the metal lead. I think that led as in leadership is spelled "led". I think you are full of who-ey because freezing cold, dull, boring Canada is NOT more romantic than India.

  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    I think you're so full of feces that your eyes MUST be brown.  Your silly claim lacks even an iota of evidence. That renders it no more than pointless blather.    

    Awww... wassamatta shitheads?  Can't handle the truth?

  • Anonymous
    9 months ago

    "Canada more romanticized" what do you think that means?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    "What do you think though?"

    It's just a cycle, we'll be out of the spotlight soon enough.

    https://youtu.be/OHQ2lrAjKQk

  • 9 months ago

    It's probably got something to do with Mice. You know, those great big dogs, or bears or whatever they are with antlers. The way they sweep across the majestic plains of the Canadian Serengeti desert, herded by the Mounties, the Canadian version of cowboys. Us Brits love that sh1t; that's why we know so much about the Canada.

  • Marli
    Lv 7
    9 months ago

    Canada?  We should be, but we are as romanticized as a dish rag.  Who writes about Canada? The British publishers are looney about the U S. They print the American side of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the two World Wars. Canada is never more than a footnote, not even in a book about the Klondike Good Rush.   "U S A . ALL THE WAY" seems to be the British perception of North America.  Montcalm and Wolfe may get a chapter in the English history books, but that is because "Quebec is so like France." Oh, the Rocky Mountains gets a picture.

    Canada was at Britain's side in the world wars from the start. She was in the South African Wars too. Is Canada mentioned outside of Canada, let alone romanticized? Nope. 'Vimy Ridge? Ypres? Never heard you were there, chum."  Vincent Massey? "Heard he was your High Commissioner here during the second big war. Heard he had a Yank brother in the movies. Heard of Daniel and Anna."  Both Vincent and Raymond Massey were born and bred Torontoians. Their grandfather Hart was the farm implements tycoon whose machinery helped make Canada's West the bread b asket that fed Britain during World War I. Daniel was named after Hart's father, the inventor who started what Hart made big.

    Among Commonwealth nations, India is the most romanticized country, IMO. It is the most exotic.  Even the Caribbean nations cannot  top it. The East India Company. The British Raj. Gandhi in his loincloth with his spinning wheel non-violently protesting. Romantic stuff.

    Then a toss between Kenya and Australia. Kenya had lions and Happy Valley hedonism.  Australia has marsupials, convict history and Ballarat gold and bush rangers. Canada's West is thought to be the American West with RCMP instead of the sheriff.

    South Africa is probably number 4, because 1) it is the furthest south a Briton can go down a European longitude without being in Antarctica. 2) it has Boers, and the Dutch have been Britain's rivals for centuries. 3) it had colourful Zulus and red coated heroes in its history.

    Not 496 out of 500 Britons know or care about Canada.  One British person on this site last week asked if "our" Queen Elizabeth is also Canada's head of state!  I  bet he did not need to ask if she was Australia's or Jamaica's   We're just 'America North'  to the rest of the world.

  • 9 months ago

    I think it might have more to do with geography.  Australia might have nearly as much, and a diverse choice of land types, but, Canada has more of them.  Basically, all that Australia does except jungle, and a lot more.  Canada basically has more to offer in it's geography.  The French speaking areas make no difference at all to the Brits, and neither does history much,

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