Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site statvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!ames-lm!statvax!eugene From: eugene@statvax.UUCP (Eugene miya) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Canadians and Americans (Not a flame) Message-ID: <130@statvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 03:13:35 EST Article-I.D.: statvax.130 Posted: Wed Mar 7 03:13:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 01:10:44 EST Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 21 While I was attending Grad School several years ago, I attended a Geography seminar given by a Canadian geographer (unusual as most of these seminar were on image processing and remote sensing) from Quebec (He was in his words `French Canadian.'). He pointed out a phemomena which was common throughout Canada when referring to direction: When referring to the directions North, West, or East, the typical Canadian has an implication of a distance of several blocks (Other distances were explicitly stated). But SOUTH meant Florida, Louisiana, and California. This was determined by survey and mobility studies. The maps were really astounding! Although this geographer favored a separate Free French Quebec, it was his opinion that the US and Canada will have merged into a single nation (with FQ) before the year 2000. I am wondering to this day whether he will be right or not. --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center hplabs!menlo70!ames-lm!statvax!eugene