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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by dghughes on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:55PM (#7019463)
From my perspective as a child of the 70s in a province not on the US Canada has been flooded with US culture.

At worst in my childhood were maybe a McDonalds and a Dairy Queen. No cable TV and few other cultural influences.

Now we're fat, WalMart shopping, gun toting, rap music/urban culture, even dialects are more US sounding.

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by buckbova on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:29PM (#7019680)
My childhood exposure of Canada was through the movie strange brew. Still a favorite of mine.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/

I figured all Canadians were hosers who scarfed donuts and drank beer.

Then I watched Kids In the Hall and I figured they were mostly funny gay fellows.

Then I watched South Park . . .

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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by mhurron on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:54PM (#7019834)
South Park is the most honest portrayal of Canada in the media today.
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Re:What happened to US life expectancy? by dghughes on Thursday January 09, 2014 @07:15AM (#7030000)
Well, doughnuts and Timmie's in the am and beer in the evening.
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