I'm just wondering, because lot's of Canadians always say that Americans don't learn anything about Canada in the schools, and people here in Canada, say Americans think we live in igloos. They say in the schools here we are more educated and we learn about the USA in the schools here.
I personally don't see why Americans need to learn about Canada and vice versa, but the people here ***** about it all time. I'm in grade 10, in a town outside Toronto and I still haven't learned anything about the US in any of my classes, so I don't get why everyone here is saying that. It's really annoying, because I've been to the US and I have relatives in Atlanta and there really smart and they own like a business and stuff.
2006-11-20 15:46:27 · 23 answers · asked by Mark 1 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Other - United States
You can't really generalize "Americans"... "in school." Local school boards adopt curriculum, and there are thousands of local school boards in the USA.
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According to the US State Department web statistics, 25% of US Citizens have a passport. According to Canadian statistics, approximately 40% of Canadians currently have a passport.
2006-11-20 19:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I learned a little bit about Canada in school and would like to visit there one day. I have been told its beautiful country. I'm from South Dakota and I have a friend that picked up a hitchhiker one time a couple years ago and the guy was coming to South Dakota to help fight the Indians. We could not believe anyone in the United States thought we are still fighting with the Indians. Unreal. So, you see, you can live here and not know that much about another state.
2006-11-23 18:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Growing up in Seattle, I learned a lot about Canada. We actually took a field trip in a high school civics class up to Victoria to see parliament in session. Pretty neat. I think it depends upon where you live. when I lived in Texas, we learned a lot about Mexico and very little (read: none) about Canada.
Makes sense to me that Canadians would learn more about the USA than vice versa, only because American policy, both foreign and domestic, has such an impact on Canada.
2006-11-20 15:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow. What a bunch of nitwit posters. In sixth grade, our entire year of social studies was dedicated to learning about the countries of the Western Hemisphere. I did my diorama on the St. Lawrence Seaway. I had to memorize all the Canadian provinces and their respective capitals. I also had to write a newspaper in Canada (I picked Yellowknife in the Yukon), and we had a Canadian couple come speak to us.
I think the people who are giving you such a hard time probably weren't paying attention in school. They're also probably a bunch of Northerners (Southerners to you). They don't seem to have very good manners at all.
By the way, Toronto is a beautiful city. I've visited it several times, along with some of the farming towns north of Toronto. What a great place to live.
2006-11-21 13:39:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The fact of the matter is that 95% of americans do not know what a passport is and 99% of americans have no desire to know anything about the world outside their little sphere of credit ratings and keeping up with the Joneses.
This is, funnily enough, the reason that there are so many questions on this site about why people hate americans so much.
It's simply because most of them haven't the slightest idea of how to fit into the world outside their ken!
The only decent americans I know, and I know a lot, and they're all good friends, are the lifetime expats who've made a career out of living in shitty countries to earn a living and who have managed to fit in and adapt, unlike the morons Jay Leno shows up when he walks the streets of america asking people if they know where their state capital is. Not many even know where their national capital is!!!!!
Canadians, on the other hand, have generally had a sense of adventure and I also meet many of them around the world on my travels. They are generally better informed, more polite, and listen to others instead of butting in with inanities, no-one likes to hear.
Don't worry about learning about america, if any of them had a brain, they'd leave for a country dealing with reality, not dreams never to be fulfilled.
2006-11-20 19:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by fed up with stupid questions 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No we don't learn about Canada per say but I did learn somewhere along the way that you guys don't live in Igloos and you say Eh a lot and you huys are really nice. (My hubbie works with a bunch of guys from Calgary) Oh and I tend to agree that MOST americans are oblivious to the word around them. I have never left the US but have taught myself three languages and have done in depth study of European history, Chinese, African, South American and Native American history and culture. I am currently learning about Russia and when I finish that I will move on to Canadian history and culture. And I am supposedly one of those uneducated types from the South, I don't have a passport but I don't need one right now, I can't tell you the prime minister of your fine country but I do know you have a Parlimentary government. So don't believe that we all sit around obsessing about money and the latest episode of Lost, I don't even know my credit score at the moment and have NEVER watched LOST and who are the Joneses anyway?
2006-11-21 01:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by mountaincutie1178 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in grade 12 and we never learned anything about Canada and I know that there isn't anything about Canada in any of my classes for the rest of the year. I know the capital it Ottawa though and I know that Canada has provinces not states and that it can get realy cold in winter lol!!! I think that they learn lots about the US in Canada because lots of Canadians come here to live. My sister whos in college knew this guy from Montrial, he was from the french part of Canada and he could speak english and french an he came here to live!
2006-11-20 15:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by Alyssa 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We learn a little bit about Canada in geography, but little or nothing about its history or government. Most of knowledge of Canada came from visiting, watching Kids in the Hall, and Strange Brew.
2006-11-20 19:19:14 · answer #8 · answered by Carole 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not learn any thing about Canada in school in Florida. I guess we are so far away from ya'll that it really don't matter. If ya'll try something we would be the last to fell the pain. I guess Ur not a threat. I say that's a good thing. Right?
2006-11-20 16:43:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My school taught a bit about Canada, but I'm from Buffalo - so you are our strange but nice neighbors to the north!
Most Americans are really oblivious to the real world.
Strange brew was indeed a cool flick!
2006-11-20 21:12:24 · answer #10 · answered by Sanmigsean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋