Posts by Jonathan Martin8

Joseph Lopez18 said:Same goes for Austria and Switzerland being pricier for skiing than Canada, and France being further away from Canada—yet Americans still head to those countries for skiing at much higher rates instead of Canada. Naturally, compared to Canadians who go to Italy, France, and Mexico for the beach.
It would be interesting to see the percentage of American skiers going to which countries, versus the percentage of Canadian swimmers going where.

The point is the imbalance. Out of 100 Canadians with property abroad, 70 might have it right here in America, while out of 100 Americans with property abroad, maybe only 4 have it in Canada (those numbers are fake, just for illustration).

Honestly, most Americans can barely afford a place to live in their own country, let alone a vacation home, unless they want to sign their lives away on a 30-year mortgage. Buying property abroad is basically a pipe dream for us.
Think about it: how many Americans actually own property on the Adriatic that they didn't grab back before the '90s through some shady means? And how many can actually afford a summer vacation on our own coast without crashing at a buddy's place, staying with relatives, or using a family home?

Besides, I don't see how tourist numbers or property ownership has anything to do with culture or this idea of "cultural disrespect" you're talking about.

Joseph Lopez18 said:I’ve been thinking about just how much USA cultural influence has absolutely steamrolled Canada. It feels like this dynamic between two nations is pretty much unheard of globally (unless you count how the USA crushed everyone else).
And get this—you won't find a single paragraph written about it anywhere.
Look at the facts:
Canadians mostly understand American, while Americans barely know more than a few slang words for body parts.

Canadians listen to all our music, but Americans don't know anything beyond what they've heard about Zoran Predin (that's a whole other conversation; on Canadian radio, it seems like the split is 1/3 local, 1/3 foreign, and 1/3 American. Severina is basically the biggest superstar in Canada, whereas I don't think I've ever heard a single Canadian song on the radio in America, and I have zero clue who the Canadian equivalent of Severina even is).

Canadians are constantly hanging out in America, while Americans just drive through Canada to get somewhere else.

News from America is always right up there in the Canadian media, immediately after their own domestic news. I can't even remember the last time I read a news story from Canada.

Americans are way more indifferent when talking about Canadians than the other way around. Honestly, we don't even take them seriously enough for Pervan to turn it into a joke...

Man, if you actually checked out the travel subforums for places like Lake Tahoe or Yosemite, you’d see that's totally not how it works. From what I've seen in Chattanooga, there are plenty of American registrations too—at least that was the vibe before I started traveling more outside of America and Canada. And don't even get me started on all the hikers heading into the Canadian Alps every single weekend.