Papercut Fun wrote:
"Movie recommendation time: Bowling for Columbine, the new documentary by Michael Moore. It's alternately disturbing and hillarious, and at least scratches the surface of something that should be examined a little deeper in American culture, Guns and fear. Moore's always a bit self serving, but contrasting humour with violent images and statistics he definitely gets a few important points across.
Living in Canada I was naturally struck by the 20 minutes or so he dedicated to some of our border towns (and my city TORONTO! YAY TORONTO!) and the differing viewpoints of Canadians and Americans. Some very telling stuff. With much of our country becoming ""Americanized"" Moore actually spent some time on a local station saying that this movie is probably more important for Canadians to watch than Americans as a kind of warning not to go 'too far'.
I've always felt that you can tell the main difference between Canadians and Americans just by looking at our countries mottos. The US motto is ""Life, Liberty and the Persuit of Happines"". The official Canadian motto is, ""Peace, Order and Good Government"". Notice the independence vs collaborative emphasis in both? I'd never be so brash as to say one is better than the other, but it's amazing how two countries so alike in so many ways can trace a major difference right back to how each chose to define itself in the beginning.
Anyway if you know Moore's work, you know you won't get an unbiased view on the issue, but he does back his arguments with facts and many of them are telling indeed. Check it out. Hey...does England have an official motto....""God Save The King/Queen"". Does that count?"
