A Tale of Two Democracies

 

History is destiny

The fundamental difference between the American and Canadian character can be summed up in this way: both are classless societies, breaking from Europe and the Old World with their ideas of privilege by birth. But this means different things in the two places. In America, everyone is upper class. In Canada, everyone is lower class.

This is an artefact of the two countries’ histories. 

America overthrew their king. So now, every man is king. Canada did not, but banned any aristocracy locally: so their king and ruling class always lived abroad. Everyone in Canada is a peasant.

This explains why Americans are, by comparison, more boisterous and difficult to herd; Canadians instinctively deferential to authority. They know their place. Americans, being royals, look down on most foreigners as mere commoners. Canadians look up to anyone or anything coming from abroad, and move to London or Los Angeles to “make it.”