Maple leaf

I'm going to think more and write soomething more in depth on this later, but you are privileged to witness a sneak preview working paper.

The maple leaf on a travelling Canadians pack is a tried and true sterotype that needs to be brought to a close. Travel to meet people and experience things and by wearing the flag you automatically open yourself up to preconceived Canadianisms befoire you can establiush yourself. People might think you;re an American??? ALl the better, when the person finds you're Canadian they have to blast apart all of what they thought you were when you were a Yank, and they won't be able to slot all the Canadianisams in because you'll have become a person.

It just seems to me that people should meet people. Common humanity and all that. Denmark doesn't need to meet Canada, that's what politicians are for.

It's okay to be a proud Canadian but a flag can't demonstarte that as well as you can.

I met a Vancouver roofer named Rees (who apaprently can make 80-120000 a year depending how hard he wants to work) and discussed this and other things with him on a brief bus ride. During this talk I relaized so many of the travelling Cdn stereotypes, the type more liekly to appear in Bangkok and Singapore than the back woods of Java, complete with silly coral necklace, Cdn hoickey hat etc etc. or what I will have to call of the beer ad school of nationalism. That is they were Canadian before the I AM molson ads started, but now they're CANADIAN, involved in an ongoing struggle against the American cousins who don't even know of the conflict.

Perhaps that made no sense, but some day it really will. Canadians aren't Americans it's true, but like them we are VERY loud people. We just don't think so because of how loud the lads down south are. (something like that was expressed in the book "Why I Hate Canadians" written by a proud Canadian upon his return from a 5 year stint in Japan. Somrhting I will read again)