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Canadian typecasting of Americans

Posted by: Quincunx ( Neither ) on October 19, 1997 at 18:42:20:

In Reply to: Surely you jest posted by Harley on October 17, 1997 at 18:39:59:

> There is more to culture than American fast food. Perhaps if you expirienced
> some of what the rest of the world has to offer, you would not be such an
> adamat McDonalds supporter. After all, the American obbsession with high
> fat/low taste food is a definate minority of the worls population.

Well look here. Maybe you should look around in Canada and see how many fat people are in Canada first.The high fat diet is spreading like a contagion and you still have your sights set on blaming it on Americans? Get it right and perhaps you'll recognize that Mcdonald's isn't necessarily an American corporation. It's simply started in the US,spread thoughout the world and in the process became a transnational corporation.

It's kind of like Kimberly-Clark being originally Canadian but becoming a transnational that is suspected in conracting out murders of union activists in El Salvador.So who do you pin the tail on ? The Canadian or the American.

Both Canada and the USA are very parallel societies when it comes to consumer habits.It's just easier for a Canadian to blame an American that to look at the it's own track record. Maybe that's a Canadian cultural habit and that's why I'm not a into recommending any menu changes for McDonald's because of the labelling that goes around.


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