Monday, January 9, 2012



Canadian Bacon

1) Record any Canadian stereotypes

2) Record any American stereotypes

3) How in Canadian culture portrayed?

Canadian Stereotypes:Canadians are presented as overly kind, saying sorry when others run into them. Ignoring outlandish statements against Canada written on the side of a van choosing instead to make the perpetrators follow language laws by writing it all again in french and arresting the CEO of a company that did a hostile takeover over many smaller companies. Canadians are also very clean, have a more stable economy meaning more jobs and are more peaceful.American Stereotypes:Americans are much less well mannered. They are stereotyped as rednecks. They all have guns, dress in old, dirty clothes and are very unkempt. America itself is shown to be polluted, there are layoffs and easy access to high grade weapons. The country has romanticized war, when a president besides to go to war his ratings increase. American people are presented as gullible blindly following their president and believing what ever is shown on t.v.
Canadians are portrayed as clean, polite and so on and on. I'm not to sure as how they are portrayed. Differences between Canadian bacon, and American bacon is:
a) We have normal American bacon. We call it "bacon". We put it on everything and use it the same way Americans do.
b) Canadian bacon is only sold in America. You will never, ever find Canadian bacon in a Canadian grocery store.
c) The closest we have to Canadian bacon is Peameal bacon, but Peameal bacon is Way better.
d) We have ham. We treat it the same way you treat ham. Jesus, how confusing is pork, eh?
a) We have normal American bacon. We call it "bacon". We put it on everything and use it the same way Americans do.

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