Oh Canada

So Canada is "the red and the white" and I like to see Canada as a distinct country with much to offer and as well much to see. Canada like any country, but it's a merging country of many different peoples. 

Yeah it's Canada's birthday and with regards to this country - very much like American and yet very similar in some ways to Europeans.

I am not sure how to explain what Canada is.  Having the most natural resources in the world and there are many things in which people don't know about Canada. Even Canadians themselves. However Canada is the place I live for the last six years and, I was born here.

Why Canada does not have an identity? Perhaps it's due to the fact that it's the same size as Australia or New York State and it's not recognized as most all the population is based in the southern portion.

Everyone merges with each other from all different ethnicities. But there is more that one could mention about Canada. What I find is that we all learn different things about everyone's country. There is much history regarding this land that is the largest in the world aside of China, but it's relatively young country. What does Canada mean to me...that is a hard one as I have literally lived more of my youth and then a good portion of my adult life in the United States. However Canada is a immersing country. It's very hard to place it into words what Canada is and I think that is what makes it a very significant country in a new global era. You can compare Canada with several different countries and find something in common within each of them and vice versa. That's probably the area of diversity that I love regarding Canada as it is a significant cultural country. I could not explain it in words but it's one that is regarded highly on an international level. As one of the past notable Prime Ministers of Canada once had said, "We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada." P. Trudeau...

Like anyone Canada is where I live and where I stand, and from each country when we can know a little more regarding each other and our cultures that is when it's very unique. I was raised that way and I have always been that way with regards to other countrys respect. I am not sure if that is a typical Canadian however Canadians have always been noted for being various things whereas how I see it, Canada is defined by the merits of it's history and it's future. And where the future is for Canada is a continuum of diversity as well as a goal in which to continue to build this small populous. Build with other nations in a global effort. And never cease to realize that the merits of this nation are worthy regardless of how large or how small...

So often we are reluctant to mention our own countries and the past prime minister was a man that was never groomed to be a prime minister he was a traveller. And to this day I don't think that anyone can compare to him but he was the aspiration of what Canada is now, in comparison to what it was prior to his time.

I never was that fond of the flag of Canada as I never grew up with it. But it's a distinctive flag that stands for a few things. So even though Canada evolved from Britain and still remains a "crown country", Canada is many things and yet with so many things still within it's future. As Canada will never claim on her soil that she is finished as she is a growing nation. And the diversity of ethnicities with a nation as such is something in which I as a Canadian am certainly proud of...

We don't celebrate it the same as within right next door is United States that truly has a different manner from which they do so in some ways we are different - but the difference is within a country that merged from the crown and one that declared itself as an "independent state" as time goes on Canada still remains a country that aside of where it sits of the globe - it's a country that is and has always been silent - in the manner that it's a country with many people from many areas of the world.

The largest continent on the globe next to China but yet people that are abundant as there really is not a definition to Canada but yet within Canada - people are not proud but they have come to realize that it's a superb place to live - it's not a melting pot nor anything it is just what it is ----------- Canada.

Ironically there within the history of Canada on the east coast Canada was the first international banking system for George Washington which was located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As well, before Georgia became a part of the original thirteen colonies - Halifax was one of the colonies - go figure. So in summary Canada is a little bit of everything and the word Canada translates to mean "new world".

I thought that may be something of interest from where I reside from this neck of the woods. Canada is not that socialized/communist country it's a country that has the greatest amount of natural resources in the entire world With the infrastructure that will move it forward within the next 100 years.

Hence Oh Canada is Canada's anthem, and as any country Canada is peaceful country I that is rather young yet has done much within international community although it's not often said - I think that is very Canadian.

I am proud and please to live here and as everyone else we really are not that different. Yet we are very global in our way of thinking - not all but many. The caparables of Canada are not based on the United States but Canada seemingly is merged in some manner with countries overseas as well as it's best neighbor. There reallys is not a definition of what Canada and in some ways that leaves something aside of it's vast history within nearly all wars - as a nation that is based without an identity. Until one does leave the country and they come to realize how much they find that it is. The average Canadian does not know too much about the history of Canada and ironically for me, I learned about Canada in my 4th grade in Bear Road Elementary within New York as well as Scollard Hall when I came into this country at the age of 17. But yes the red and white on July 1st, is when Canada was declared as a country of it's own. A young country and perhaps one of the youngest on this earth.

Yet it is Canada,

Jack