they say it's the little differences...but is it really?
As I sit here in my hotel room I am reminded of some of the little differences between Canada and the US. The commercials use Spanish instead of French, well the food here is actually mostly Mexican. I have had to get used to gallons instead of litres when filling my rental and I have to think in miles instead kilometres. In the mornings when I am looking at the weather I have to think in Fahrenheit instead of in Celsius. But really these are pretty minor differences to deal with and with the luck of my age I can remember using the imperial system (though I was rather young when the switch was made). With my training in cooking I had to get used to the imperial system all over again so like I say it's not that big of a deal.
I was in K-Mart the other day, and I noticed that most of the of the bottles of drinks were all in round metric volumes with the equivalent in imperial. Really, why do they bother? The US should just get on board with the rest of the world and finally make the switch to metric, but hey I guess they have to feel like they are still in charge.
But there are some differences that are very different. I've noticed a variety of signs as I have walked into any number of restaurants in both Arizona and California.
I can not get over the love affair that Americans have with their guns. Can you imagine having to be warned to not bring in your weapons.
I am here in South-east California/Arizona promoting tourism in the Yukon and by extension in Canada, and for the most part there are two types of people I talk with. The first are those that are very excited about coming to Canada and the Yukon because they have heard so many great things about it and those that are telling everyone, including me, about the great time that they had there. It is not uncommon to be told that they ended up enjoying the Yukon far more then the did Alaska and their own country. But every so often you get some wingnut who comes along and is very irate about our gun laws. They can't believe that they would have to declare their shotguns or rifles at the border or those who are just furious because they can not take their handguns into Canada.
Get over it, join the 20th Century, if not the 21st like the rest of us.
and the beat goes on....
I was in K-Mart the other day, and I noticed that most of the of the bottles of drinks were all in round metric volumes with the equivalent in imperial. Really, why do they bother? The US should just get on board with the rest of the world and finally make the switch to metric, but hey I guess they have to feel like they are still in charge.
But there are some differences that are very different. I've noticed a variety of signs as I have walked into any number of restaurants in both Arizona and California.
I can not get over the love affair that Americans have with their guns. Can you imagine having to be warned to not bring in your weapons.
I am here in South-east California/Arizona promoting tourism in the Yukon and by extension in Canada, and for the most part there are two types of people I talk with. The first are those that are very excited about coming to Canada and the Yukon because they have heard so many great things about it and those that are telling everyone, including me, about the great time that they had there. It is not uncommon to be told that they ended up enjoying the Yukon far more then the did Alaska and their own country. But every so often you get some wingnut who comes along and is very irate about our gun laws. They can't believe that they would have to declare their shotguns or rifles at the border or those who are just furious because they can not take their handguns into Canada.
Get over it, join the 20th Century, if not the 21st like the rest of us.
and the beat goes on....
posted by D'Arcy Butler at 8:46 PM
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