I'm sorry... you really don't have a clue what you're talking about. For now I'll leave you with this so you can maybe re-think everything you "know":
These include civilians.
Taken from the first.edu result from a google search.
(Country TotalDead)
Soviet Union 25,568,000
China 11,324,000
Germany 7,060,000
Poland 6,850,000
Japan 1,806,000
Yugoslavia 1,700,000
Rumania 985,000
France 810,000
Hungary 750,000
Austria 525,000
Greece 520,000
Italy 410,000
Czechoslovakia 400,000
Great Britain 388,000
USA 295,000
Holland 250,000
Belgium 85,000
Finland 79,000
Canada 42,000
India 36,000
Australia 29,000
Spain 22,000
Bulgaria 21,000
New Zealand 12,000
South Africa 9,000
Norway 5,000
Denmark 4,000
http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/Hist427/texts/wwiicasua lty.htm
Your country not helping your allies, even as Churchill literally begged for intervention is a huge black mark against your country.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you actually believe this nonsense? Whom, exactly, have the USA been protecting Europe from for the last 20 odd years? Certainly not Russia, they've been in no position to wage war against Europe for a long time. Who??
The only reason the States had to prop up Europe after WWII is because they sat back and PROFITEERED off the dead bodies of brave French, British, Canadian, Polish, Russian, etc soldiers and only entered the war when attacked, suffered almost zero infastructure losses and a small fraction of deaths.. no wonder they emerged ahead of everyone else.
Military spending (2003): 1 United States $ 370,700,000,000 2 China $ 60,000,000,000 3 France $ 45,238,100,000 4 United Kingdom$ 42,836,500,000 5 Japan $ 42,488,100,000 6 Germany $ 35,063,000,000
?????????? The only people who need help defending themselves is the world from the USA. Americans don't realize that the rest of the world is not scared of Iraq, Iran or North Korea, they are scared of the States. That is not an exaggeration.
You need to separate history from propaganda. Don't think for a minute that that massive military budget is for anything but selfish American interests.
"Even the Russian president agrees that the world is safer with GWB as president."
International Relations 101: Putin became Premier because he promised to crush Chechnya, instead the Chechens are kicking his ass and he is very embarassed. He supports GWB because if GWB can kill "terrorists" at will then Putin's allowed to flatten Grozny and gas more Chechens at will.
" I just need to say this. How can one of the top ten biggest economies in the world be considered poor?"
From the page you linked: 2000 GDP per capita == $4060; that is how.
The CIA factbook ranks Brazil 94th overall at $7600 GDP per capita, below the world average of $8200. Brazil is the 6th most populous nation in the world which accounts for the large GDP. This is similar to China, they have a massive economy yet my government (Canada) sends them millions of dollars of my taxes for humanitarian aid every year -- China's GDP per capita according to the CIA is $5000.
I am an english Canadian whose history in Canada dates back from one to five generations depending on which tree you follow. Most of my ancestry is English on one side and Scottish on the other.
What is my culture exactly? I've never worn a kilt, I can't stand tea and I don't even know exactly what a "crumpet" is. I apparently say "aboot" instead of "about" and "eh" slips in every now and then; other than that I have no accent compared to the people on CBC or CNN.
Have I lost my culture? I live in a Canadian city. I am a white male. In that city I am a cultural minority and close to a visible minority. I have used Royal Bank and TD ATMs that are in Mandarin by default. I have seen signs in Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Italian, Polish and Greek ONLY. ZERO english. In this city I have lived in an apartment surrounded by probably 100 000 Chinese people.
Does anyone complain about the signs or ATMs? Probably, as there are racists everywhere, but I've never heard anyone complain or even find it unusual. Nobody is persecuted or prosecuted for the language they display in their window or on their signs, that would be as abhorrent to me as apparently the Queen is to you.
England and Scotland mean something to me, I've never been there but I will go someday -- but we've been gone for a long long time. I know what my clan tartan looks like and I know the clan motto... sometimes my mom cooks roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sundays. Does France and their culture mean more than that to you? The vast majority of Canadians I know would answer "no" to that question about their own heritage.
On the same Sunday my mom cooks Yorkshire pudding I might have gone down Spadina and bought Bok Choi at the market for a stir fry, then maybe gone out for a drink with the guys I met at school from Qatar or Ghana or New Zealand, maybe go to a bar in Little Portugal to watch the finals of Euro 2004 which has the city humming almost as much as a hockey playoff game, which is saying A LOT.
So have I lost MY culture? Of course I have. And that's what makes Toronto the greatest city in the world. I keep the parts I like from my own traditional culture and take parts I like from other cultures. I've lost my culture but I've gained a much better one.
So maybe you are right, we don't understand Quebec; your fear of integration. I'm sorry but integration is the future, your culture probably will die just as ours did long ago. Call it cultural evolution, hopefully you'll find it an improvement as I did... evolution is rarely wrong.
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I'm sorry... you really don't have a clue what you're talking about. For now I'll leave you with this so you can maybe re-think everything you "know": These include civilians. Taken from the first .edu result from a google search.
(Country TotalDead)
Soviet Union 25,568,000
China 11,324,000
Germany 7,060,000
Poland 6,850,000
Japan 1,806,000
Yugoslavia 1,700,000
Rumania 985,000
France 810,000
Hungary 750,000
Austria 525,000
Greece 520,000
Italy 410,000
Czechoslovakia 400,000
Great Britain 388,000
USA 295,000
Holland 250,000
Belgium 85,000
Finland 79,000
Canada 42,000
India 36,000
Australia 29,000
Spain 22,000
Bulgaria 21,000
New Zealand 12,000
South Africa 9,000
Norway 5,000
Denmark 4,000
http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/Hist427/texts/wwiicasua lty.htm
Your country not helping your allies, even as Churchill literally begged for intervention is a huge black mark against your country.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you actually believe this nonsense? Whom, exactly, have the USA been protecting Europe from for the last 20 odd years? Certainly not Russia, they've been in no position to wage war against Europe for a long time. Who??
The only reason the States had to prop up Europe after WWII is because they sat back and PROFITEERED off the dead bodies of brave French, British, Canadian, Polish, Russian, etc soldiers and only entered the war when attacked, suffered almost zero infastructure losses and a small fraction of deaths.. no wonder they emerged ahead of everyone else.
Military spending (2003):
1 United States $ 370,700,000,000
2 China $ 60,000,000,000
3 France $ 45,238,100,000
4 United Kingdom$ 42,836,500,000
5 Japan $ 42,488,100,000
6 Germany $ 35,063,000,000
??????????
The only people who need help defending themselves is the world from the USA. Americans don't realize that the rest of the world is not scared of Iraq, Iran or North Korea, they are scared of the States. That is not an exaggeration.
You need to separate history from propaganda. Don't think for a minute that that massive military budget is for anything but selfish American interests.
"Even the Russian president agrees that the world is safer with GWB as president."
International Relations 101: Putin became Premier because he promised to crush Chechnya, instead the Chechens are kicking his ass and he is very embarassed. He supports GWB because if GWB can kill "terrorists" at will then Putin's allowed to flatten Grozny and gas more Chechens at will.
"they could deliver WMD's into the states in their sneaky submarine."
I think you meant leaky.
" I just need to say this. How can one of the top ten biggest economies in the world be considered poor?"
From the page you linked: 2000 GDP per capita == $4060; that is how.
The CIA factbook ranks Brazil 94th overall at $7600 GDP per capita, below the world average of $8200. Brazil is the 6th most populous nation in the world which accounts for the large GDP. This is similar to China, they have a massive economy yet my government (Canada) sends them millions of dollars of my taxes for humanitarian aid every year -- China's GDP per capita according to the CIA is $5000.
I am an english Canadian whose history in Canada dates back from one to five generations depending on which tree you follow. Most of my ancestry is English on one side and Scottish on the other.
What is my culture exactly? I've never worn a kilt, I can't stand tea and I don't even know exactly what a "crumpet" is. I apparently say "aboot" instead of "about" and "eh" slips in every now and then; other than that I have no accent compared to the people on CBC or CNN.
Have I lost my culture? I live in a Canadian city. I am a white male. In that city I am a cultural minority and close to a visible minority. I have used Royal Bank and TD ATMs that are in Mandarin by default. I have seen signs in Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, Italian, Polish and Greek ONLY. ZERO english. In this city I have lived in an apartment surrounded by probably 100 000 Chinese people.
Does anyone complain about the signs or ATMs? Probably, as there are racists everywhere, but I've never heard anyone complain or even find it unusual. Nobody is persecuted or prosecuted for the language they display in their window or on their signs, that would be as abhorrent to me as apparently the Queen is to you.
England and Scotland mean something to me, I've never been there but I will go someday -- but we've been gone for a long long time. I know what my clan tartan looks like and I know the clan motto... sometimes my mom cooks roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sundays. Does France and their culture mean more than that to you? The vast majority of Canadians I know would answer "no" to that question about their own heritage.
On the same Sunday my mom cooks Yorkshire pudding I might have gone down Spadina and bought Bok Choi at the market for a stir fry, then maybe gone out for a drink with the guys I met at school from Qatar or Ghana or New Zealand, maybe go to a bar in Little Portugal to watch the finals of Euro 2004 which has the city humming almost as much as a hockey playoff game, which is saying A LOT.
So have I lost MY culture? Of course I have. And that's what makes Toronto the greatest city in the world. I keep the parts I like from my own traditional culture and take parts I like from other cultures. I've lost my culture but I've gained a much better one.
So maybe you are right, we don't understand Quebec; your fear of integration. I'm sorry but integration is the future, your culture probably will die just as ours did long ago. Call it cultural evolution, hopefully you'll find it an improvement as I did... evolution is rarely wrong.
Welcome to Canada in the 21st century by the way.
Salut.