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Why not a united North America? The question you should be asking is, why consider a united North America at all? Balkanization is the natural form of nations. Nations like to stay independent rather than unify.
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Vomitus, please, no generalisations. There has been reasoning above which answered your question: "same language, same culture", and that's the point to start. The Balkans have many different peoples and cultures and can't be compared with North America. Or why did East Germany join with the west? Why does Austria not?
The USA has given an example on how to integrate many different nations and cultures. Now they have to find a way to continue, having gone down the wrong way for several decades. USA c19
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Re: Why did a united North America not form?
Because we wrecked their **** in 181212-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Why didn't you conquer them? Because they were still stronger.Comment
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Re: Re: Why did a united North America not form?
See! Nationalist myths regarding the War of 1812!Originally posted by KrazyHorse
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Linguistically, one way people in Latin America refer to the gringos is as Norteamericano, "North Americans", since obviously, people in Latin America are Americans also. Its easier than saying Estadunidense (someone from the United States). I have yet to see anyone apply that to Canadians thought...If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Re: Why did a united North America not form?
Because Britain defeated our invasion of Canada and we defeated the British invasion of us. But we were partially occupied and they were the most powerful empire on the planet, so the fact that we stayed independent and drove them out of our territory means we won.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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The US didn't become the big swinging dick until about 1880 or so. Before that, it was the Brits, so I hardly blame Canadians for throwing in their lots with the Brits.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Plus, they got all our scumbucket loyalists after independence.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Why did a united North America not form?
They liked their slaves in the middle bit.Comment
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Re: Why did a united North America not form?
Puhleasse!Originally posted by Gangerolf
Why aren't Canada and the US one country? I mean, the definition of "Canadian" is "not American".
Same language, same culture, why not the same country.
They have no idea about poutine or kubasa, and they seem to have a serious hate on for the letter 'u'.(\__/)
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'u' sucks!
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What do they make of it then?Comment
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Syllabynist!(\__/)
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I think at some point we're going to see a free-er movement of labo(u)r across the US/Canada border, which would be nice.
We already have integrated defen(s/c)e. Beyond that, I don't think it matters enough to anyone to really push for full scale union.Comment
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