In fairness, more American colonists fought with the British than against it.
Yes, we call them conservatives today -- the people who resist rapid change on the grounds that it's unfamiliar, scary, and seems impractical, and therefore instead cling to a subopimal past.
Back then, I'm sure some of them wrote General Washington at Valley Forge along these lines:
"How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?"
The Canadian reputation for being polite, I believe, is the natural result of navigating through history while tied to two empires and hemmed in by a third.
Is America meant to be one of these empires? It really has never been one, which is why Canada was never invaded and annexed once we'd settled our grievances with the British.
(Notice also that following WW II, instead of annexing the rest of Earth, as an empire would have done, and as it had the power to do, America launched the Marshall Plan and led the creation of Israel.)
Personally, I think Canadians are polite for a very simple reason: you were raised properly.
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Yes, we call them conservatives today -- the people who resist rapid change on the grounds that it's unfamiliar, scary, and seems impractical, and therefore instead cling to a subopimal past.
Back then, I'm sure some of them wrote General Washington at Valley Forge along these lines:
"How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?"
The Canadian reputation for being polite, I believe, is the natural result of navigating through history while tied to two empires and hemmed in by a third.
Is America meant to be one of these empires? It really has never been one, which is why Canada was never invaded and annexed once we'd settled our grievances with the British.
(Notice also that following WW II, instead of annexing the rest of Earth, as an empire would have done, and as it had the power to do, America launched the Marshall Plan and led the creation of Israel.)
Personally, I think Canadians are polite for a very simple reason: you were raised properly.