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I mean, sure, it's not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).

And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not "Canada-aware" for most of my life.

I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.

Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.

I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.

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[–] vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure if you count the departure of 1 person as a fact about a place.

I'm also skeptical unless you are counting disputed territories by every name they've ever gone by. Europe and Asia account for 80% of Mississauga population (and it was less diverse in the past). they've got 100 countries between them assuming you had the most possible representation, which is doubtful. Then you still need 40 more countries from very uncommon backgrounds.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I am saying that each of these students would give perspective based on where they came from. We had a map of the world,with flags on each country where a student was from. It was essentially a high school that was in a part of Mississauga that had a population predominantly of new immigrants. It was a particularly transient population. You know, that OTHER 20%. Given the population of Mississauga, that is still a very large number. Middle East, Africa, South America, they were from all over.