Insufferable Canada
#1
Insufferable Canada
Tim Horton's has a new ad featuring an Asian grandfather, it's set in a hockey rink and suggests assimilation through coffee. I find it absurdly patronising. It lacks donuts, we don't see successive generations expanding, but it milks every stereotype; kindly white man offers coffee to timid immigrant, immigrant's child adopts local religion, third generation child is a hockey star. Apparently uncaring and inscrutable oriental father learns Canadian values and reveals secret bond with child and grandchild. All celebrate with coffee from a US based multinational corporation.
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
#2
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Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
Tim Horton's has a new ad featuring an Asian grandfather, it's set in a hockey rink and suggests assimilation through coffee. I find it absurdly patronising. It lacks donuts, we don't see successive generations expanding, but it milks every stereotype; kindly white man offers coffee to timid immigrant, immigrant's child adopts local religion, third generation child is a hockey star. Apparently uncaring and inscrutable oriental father learns Canadian values and reveals secret bond with child and grandchild. All celebrate with coffee from a US based multinational corporation.
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
#3
Re: Insufferable Canada
Lights the blue touch paper and stands well back, eh?
<reaches for the "ignore" button>....haven't felt moved to use that for while.
<reaches for the "ignore" button>....haven't felt moved to use that for while.
#4
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by dingbat
Careful now. You may find yourself on the wannabe expats hit list with inflammatory (if totally spot-on) commentary like that....
#5
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by Morwenna
Lights the blue touch paper and stands well back, eh?
<reaches for the "ignore" button>....haven't felt moved to use that for while.
<reaches for the "ignore" button>....haven't felt moved to use that for while.
#6
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
Well, yes, I hope for a bang, men always do. I'm not completely trolling though, I do think there's a horrible streak of superiority among English Canadians.
It's inherited from the Brits but they are trying to get rid of it.
#7
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by flashman
It's inherited from the Brits but they are trying to get rid of it.
#8
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Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
Shot!
as for the commercial so we have some dumb (most likely American advertising monger ) writing bad commercials ( Timmy's is now alas owned by an American company)
#9
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
Tim Horton's has a new ad featuring an Asian grandfather, it's set in a hockey rink and suggests assimilation through coffee. I find it absurdly patronising. It lacks donuts, we don't see successive generations expanding, but it milks every stereotype; kindly white man offers coffee to timid immigrant, immigrant's child adopts local religion, third generation child is a hockey star. Apparently uncaring and inscrutable oriental father learns Canadian values and reveals secret bond with child and grandchild. All celebrate with coffee from a US based multinational corporation.
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
Well you made the choice to live here didnt you?
#10
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by Island_Girl
Hey we Canadians are a nice lot you can't blame all of us for what Greztky does He by the way who defected to the USA
as for the commercial so we have some dumb (most likely American advertising monger ) writing bad commercials ( Timmy's is now alas owned by an American company)
as for the commercial so we have some dumb (most likely American advertising monger ) writing bad commercials ( Timmy's is now alas owned by an American company)
#11
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by willmore
Well you made the choice to live here didnt you?
#12
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by Island_Girl
Timmy's is now alas owned by an American company
#13
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by Judy in Calgary
And The Bay too!
Thought I'd mention too, that I have a lot of respect for Terry Fox in what he envisioned and what he tried to accomplish.
#14
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Re: Insufferable Canada
Is the irony in the commercial that Tim Horton's entire staff is made up of timid immigrants? Perhaps it is not a commercial but a recruitment video?
#15
Re: Insufferable Canada
Originally Posted by dbd33
Tim Horton's has a new ad featuring an Asian grandfather, it's set in a hockey rink and suggests assimilation through coffee. I find it absurdly patronising. It lacks donuts, we don't see successive generations expanding, but it milks every stereotype; kindly white man offers coffee to timid immigrant, immigrant's child adopts local religion, third generation child is a hockey star. Apparently uncaring and inscrutable oriental father learns Canadian values and reveals secret bond with child and grandchild. All celebrate with coffee from a US based multinational corporation.
I'd barely pushed finished puking when CBC moved on to the betting story:
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
Wayne Greztky, a Canadian icon, like that guy who couldn't hobble across the country on one leg, gambles a bit but the CBC wriggles and squirms to avoid saying so.
Am I the only one who finds a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide in the Canadian psyche ?
Actually, what you are doing is called "projecting" in psychology.
To project: "Psychology. To externalize and attribute (an emotion, for example) to someone or something else."
Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
In other words, it's you who is showing "a streak of self-righteousness a mile wide" with your comments as you point the finger at Canadians.
Last edited by oceanMDX; Feb 11th 2006 at 4:23 am.