Daryl

Americans make it so easy to hate them. Part of it is that Americans hate everyone who is NOT an American or American ass-kisser.

Did you know that the University of Waterloo, Canada, is the Western world leader in quantum computing? The trick for Canada is to prevent Google and Alphabet from claiming OUR success stories and accomplishments as their own.

That s the problem. I was desperately hopping that this web site (insrtance?) would be a solution, but t seems that the Americans are so insidious, they will infiltrate ANY website. The solution s not to start a new instance the solution is to police the existing instances to keep the Americans out. As long as the Americans have access, they will dominate, period.

As a Canadian, I am completely resentful that an American would try to tell me what I want my Canadian culture to be. If we want to re-appropriate the term 'woke' and give it whatever meaning and inuendo we as Canadians want, that is fine with me. But to have an AMERICN define the term for us? Not so much. There is nothing wrong with the term 'woke' that getting rid of white supremacy will not solve. The irony of this s that the rest of the world has to be woken up to this realty before this will happen.

An interesting tidbit to highlight my point. The first incandescent light bulb was patented in Canada, and Edison bought the patent. Still, as Canadians, we recite the US propaganda that Edison invented it. We know more about America than we do about ourselves, (and most of what we know about America is false) because we keep highlighting the US instead of highlighting Canadian achievements, even in a community that is labelled 'Canada'. This would never happen to any site in the US. We need to start promoting CANADA on a site labeled 'Canada'.

For example, the largest IBM manufacturing assembly plant in the WORLD for their semiconductors is in Quebec. How many Canadians know that? Part of the insidiousness, Canadians know more about America than we do about ourselves, and this CANADIAN site doesn't do very much to change that. Most posts on Canadian sites still carry the undertone of American dominance in Canadian affairs and economy.

And every one of them has been insidiously inundated with American culture. Generally, the talk is all about how America is affecting Canada. That s a tacit acknowledgement of this insidious creep.

China is now the largest and most influential economy on the planet, not the US, but I don't see China's cultural influence everywhere.

And exactly how would I stop this American cultural creep into it, except by continuous moderation and filtering out all cases of it? It is in the nature of Americans to spread their culture into all mass media, digital is just an extension of this.

Sorry, but the term is 'AMERICAN' citizen. But I agree, the United States of America has appropriated the label 'America' to exclusively refer to them. That is exactly the insidious creep I am talking about.

It is currently mostly about how America is influencing Canada, or what the implcation of Trump's Presidency will be on Canada. It is still American culture being discussed.

The problem is, EVEY community seems to have been inundated with American culture, even the ostensibly Canadian community. It is insidious in the sense that the main topic of discussion is about what is happening in America. That is the cultural creep.