Did anybody see Oprah Winfreys “Happiest people on Earth”-episode about her visit to Copenhagen? It seems pretty ridiculous, she apparently also talked about “free this, free that” but she did highlight things like being paid to go to college. When she asked somebody about the socialism going on, she got the answer that we thought of it not as much as socialism, but more as being civilized, to take care of unhealthy and old people in our society.

But in typical media fashion, this is what she portrayed as a “typical danish home”: http://www.oprah.com/media/20091021-tows-stine-home-tour

I can tell you it’s pretty fucking far from typical. We usually don’t have kids rooms in little boxes in the wall ^_^.

It would be nice if Sean could come back home from vacation without some threads to close.

“And yes Itchy, this thread is ridiculous. I don’t even care to figure out who started it, but everyone including myself should be ashamed for participating. I’ll go whip myself now.”

but yes goon and itchy are right. i just got involved because i like debating and i get involved into every arguemnt here on film junk. so i’ll just go now, but i wont whip myself…i’m american so i don’t have someone else who will pay for the dr.

The main findings were:

* A 70% majority of Canadians thought their system was performing either “very well (12%) or “fairly well” (58%). Only 28% thought it was performing “not well at all” (9%) or “not that well” (19%).
* Most people (55%) favored an expansion of the public sector. Just over a quarter (27%) of Canadians thought that the Canadian system had got the balance between public and private sector health care right. Only 12% favored a tilt towards the private sector.
* An 82% majority of Canadians believed their country’s health care system was superior to the U.S. system. Only 8% thought the U.S. system was superior.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20090812/US-health-care-system-e2809cenvy-of-the-worlde2809d-not-in-Canada!.aspx

But thanks for being yet another American telling Canada how Canadians think of themselves. You really nailed it. Wink.

And yes Itchy, this thread is ridiculous. I don’t even care to figure out who started it, but everyone including myself should be ashamed for participating. I’ll go whip myself now.

let me guess, iran is paveing the way for human rights
and france is a totaly modest moral country

“your mind is totally small and so, yes, you belong back in the US. I am an American living in Canada much of the year.”

and you deserve never to come back

Adjust your attitude and don’t take every situation as an opportunity to point out how lacking and behind Canada is and I bet people will treat you way better than you can even imagine!”

Emily, our post was totally off subject and should have been monitored. Having said that your mind is totally small and so, yes, you belong back in the US. I am an American living in Canada much of the year.
Yes the US has lower prices, much bigger inventory of almost everything consumers want, more people etc.
Canada has universal health, clean air, space, less people, healthiest banking system in the world, slower life-style, better schools, broader curriculum, more democratic than its LOUD neighbor, etc.
To me those are the qualities that matter. If people like Emily would go back to the US then the rest of us from the US living Canada will not be embarrassed by the short-sightedness, and smallness of some Americans.
You can have also those supposed benefits, Netflix, lower prices, better health care only if you have money, etc.
You can also have an extremely corrupt banking system, high, sometimes prohibitive housing prices, too many people, too much crime, lousy education, fundamentalist puritans trying to regulate the rest of us, lousy over-priced health run by the health insurance and hospital industries, and the tattered remnants of the worst administration (BUSH) tin the US history

” I could give you examples like our free, universal health care, largely non-partisan media, greater social equality and diversity, better access to high quality post-secondary education, low violent crime rates, stable banking system, nature

Ha, are you kidding? universal health care sucks in canada even your own politicians think so. non-partisan media (no shit, the government controls it) greater social equality and diversity (how do you even mesure that or prove this is true? America was once called the melting pot, obviously we are pretty diverse…better access to high quality post-secondary education (because everyone dreams of going to canada for their edu)low violent crime rates (we could go into this heavely but i don’t have the patience to write everything down. my opinion is one of the results is this is the decriminilization of pot and other natural drugs. and i am completely on canada’s side on this one. this is the only thing i believe that canada has over the US. but you also can’t own guns, so theres another right and liberty you gave up for safety) stable banking (once again controlled by the government and goes against our capitolist system which obama is trying to destroy) nature (yosemiti, yellow stone, rocky mnts, hawaii, alaska, dakota bad lands, utah, arizona desert, mnt rushmore, mississippi river, new england in the fall, shanedoah valley, red wood forest…etc that is my answer to that statement. however, canada is very beautiful).

that being said, i am not trying to start an argument. but i see alot of posts bashing the US and it’s capitolist system that pulled one of the youngest countries in the world and powered it to the super power it became. and once the richest country in the world. you say how terrible and judgemental we are yet none of you hesitate to bash America. and if your so open minded, why is emilie so attacked?
so far, not impressed with great open minded canada.
people are the same no matter where you come from, you have the haters, the bashers, the judgers, and the people who carry tolerence much to far. but if that’s how you treat emily i think you need to work on your more intelligent and tolerent opend minds.

Although it cost me more to live here, the benefits really seem to justify the cost. No, healthcare is not FREE here, you pay with your increased taxes. But I just recently lost my job and am not worried about a cold or injury the way I did in the U.S. I went bankrupt there because they thought I had a brain tumor and just all the testing that had to be done to find out I was fine sent me financialy over the edge. It took several years to recover from that debt. Talk about a kick in the head when you end up feeling cheated that you didn’t have a serious illness to justify all the money spent. BTW the condition I have is easily controlled with medication, but mimicks all the symptoms of brain tumor.

There are advantages to both countries, I just found it incredibly rude to use a forum on DVD rentals to use the opportunity to bash your host country. Americans tend to NOT know when THEY are being rude. I now realize that canadians respond better to knowledgable, thoughtful, comments than ignorance, that may be why you are experiencing some unfriendly behaviour from them.

Adjust your attitude and don’t take every situation as an opportunity to point out how lacking and behind Canada is and I bet people will treat you way better than you can even imagine!

I miss Netflix too…and the cheaper prices (in Canada we HAVE to have a higher minimum wage to pay for all the taxes that get added to all the products we buy here…like food and clothing etc.)

I also found that the school standards were HIGHER in both cities we lived in than in Ontario. (with 4 kids I’m getting a good cross section of teachers, grades, curriculam etc.)

And CBC radio in Toronto is at least one morning a week X-rated, with “in depth” reports on prostitution, strip joints, how and where kids are doing “legal” drugs etc. The announcers just tell the prudes like me, listening with four kids over breakfast, to turn off the radio. I did…permanently.

Anyway, good luck with your time here…if your still here!