Boring, are we?
Where does Britain’s Economist magazine get off calling Canada “irredeemably boring?” It came to that unforgivable assessment recently in a research report titled The World in 1988.
The “boring” label evidently arose from a finding in the report that in a cultural sense Canadians are a dull lot of intellectual philistines, not even up to the standards of such places as Poland, Greece, India and China.
What cheek. What the Economist forgot, or didn’t bother to check out, is that while we may not be absolutely top drawer in the culture department, (and even that’s debatable), we do have something that makes us very far from dull.
We have GOLD. Lots of it. And gold bores nobody. Ergo, we’re not a boring race. England on the other hand, home of the Economist, is by this kind of standard a very boring place indeed. So there.
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