Please use this Web page to access plling and print components
of American Myths and learn more about the American Myths
television series on Canadian Learning Television (10:30 PM EST)
Saturday, November 12 to November 17th. Canadians share their
continent with the global superpower; naturally, they are wary.
Yet, centuries of interaction have brought Canadians and
Americans to talk, trade, fight as allies, intermarry and
immigrate to each other's territory. As a result, Canadians
believe they intuitively understand their neighbours and
proclaim that we "get" the US better than anyone else. But
Canadians nonetheless cherish ideas - even myths - about
Americans that may not be true. Many would agree that Americans
are warlike, while Canadians are the world's peacekeepers; that
Canada is a beacon of social welfare innovation, while America
is a regressive and uncaring state; that America's ethnic
melting pot is hidebound and discriminatory, while Canada's is
the enlightened and tolerant nation in North America