Name: Anonymous 2010-12-07 18:20
Let's post our findings in the cablegates.
One thing I found funny was that Americans love to make fun of everyone and especially Canadians, but when Canadians starts doing something similar, Americans aren't happy.
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/01/08OTTAWA136.html
One thing I found funny was that Americans love to make fun of everyone and especially Canadians, but when Canadians starts doing something similar, Americans aren't happy.
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2008/01/08OTTAWA136.html
Summary: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
has long gone to great pains to highlight the distinction
between Americans and Canadians in its programming, generally
at our expense. However, the level of anti-American melodrama
has been given a huge boost in the current television season
as a number of programs offer Canadian viewers their fill of
nefarious American officials carrying out equally nefarious
deeds in Canada while Canadian officials either oppose them
or fall trying. CIA rendition flights, schemes to steal
Canada's water, "the Guantanamo-Syria express," F-16's flying
in for bombing runs in Quebec to eliminate escaped
terrorists: in response to the onslaught, one media
commentator concluded, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that
"apparently, our immigration department's real enemies aren't
terrorists or smugglers -- they're Americans." While this
situation hardly constitutes a public diplomacy crisis per
se, the degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast
entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars,
twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of
the U.S. -- and the extent to which the Canadian public seems
willing to indulge in the feast - is noteworthy as an
indication of the kind of insidious negative popular
stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada. End
Summary.