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True. What was the point of a hockey game if you couldn't call the opposing team the swear words in another language that they themselves had taught you at a Manitoba social?
I think, though, that almost everyone recognized when something was meant in a funny way and when it was meant in a malicious way. And when it had gone too far, the way someone might tickle you and for the first seconds it's funny, and after that it's intended to make you cry.
And I think when teasing was done among equals there was also a difference between that and 3 people picking on another one.
Exactly so. It was also common during the formative years for parents to step in and admonish the teasers, more often than not their own progeny.
I think today it might be more difficult due to the distancing of family units caused by lifestyle demands. Yesterday's parents had more contact and control over their children for a variety of reasons. Father maybe worked with any number of other fathers from the same community so he would get "reports". Mother perhaps attended rather routine parent teacher meetings. Neighbours actually spoke to each other and socialized together.
The kids just spent far more time interacting with each other outside of school with any number of recreational activities other than sitting at another table at the fast food court in a mall and texting each other from 8 feet away.
Not to mention the old issue of malicious gossip coming back to bite your butt and maybe resulting in an embarrassing "calling-out" of the perp in front of his entire peer group which with today's anonymous internet capabilities, that just does not happen with any frequency to be of a "teaching/learning" aspect.
Your formative years decades ago were rife with learning the damage that could be done by the spoken word, today; not so much. There is just no way to actually get a clue of the intent by the sender from looking at an I-phone screen.
I would put forward that the general view in Canada is that some Americans know very little about anything going on outside their own borders, so it shouldn't shock us to learn that we're no exception.
I would put forward that the general view in Canada is that some Americans know very little about anything going on outside their own borders, so it shouldn't shock us to learn that we're no exception.
Some Americans know very little about anything going on outside their own state lines or general region.
I come from New Jersey. I learned long ago that the image most people have of my home state comes from TV shows and movies.
That may be the answer right there, come to think of it. There aren't all that many TV shows and movies about Canada on US television. Schitt's Creek may have broken that barrier a bit.
Some Americans know very little about anything going on outside their own state lines or general region.
I come from New Jersey. I learned long ago that the image most people have of my home state comes from TV shows and movies.
That may be the answer right there, come to think of it. There aren't all that many TV shows and movies about Canada on US television. Schitt's Creek may have broken that barrier a bit.
Some Americans know very little about anything going on outside their own state lines or general region.
I come from New Jersey. I learned long ago that the image most people have of my home state comes from TV shows and movies.
That may be the answer right there, come to think of it. There aren't all that many TV shows and movies about Canada on US television. Schitt's Creek may have broken that barrier a bit.
Media, especially entertainment, is probably the biggest factor in building stereotypes. We are all victims!!
When ever I meet someone excited about visiting Paris for the first time, I always tell them, that it's not the Paris of the movies or TV. Yes it's lovely, but it's still a big dirty city in the 21st century. You can find the Paris you want to a degree...if you plan accordingly. I admit though that my first visit to Paris was kind of magical, way back in the 1980's. Must have loved it, since I've been back a few times.
When I think of New Jersey, I think of the hey days in the late 19th century and early 20th, of boardwalks and huge hotels by the beach. Only because I love looking at old photography.
I did get to the airport in Newark once. Wasn't the same. LOL
When I think of New Jersey I think of the movie "Lean on me".
Lean on Me was set nowhere near the Jersey Shore. It was set, if I remember correctly, in inland Paterson. Do tell me about the Saskatchewan and Alberta shore communities.
Lean on Me was set nowhere near the Jersey Shore. It was set, if I remember correctly, in inland Paterson.
Where did I say it took place near Jersey Shore? I am aware it took place in Paterson. I have met people from Paterson that actually went to the East side high where the movie took place.
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Do tell me about the Saskatchewan and Alberta shore communities.
I think he wants to know about Lake Louise and Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, and Uranium City, Eldorado, Camsell Portage, Fond-du-Lac and Stony Rapids in Saskatchewan.
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