Minor things that bother you

[kphoger]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

[JayhawkCO]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

Maybe stopping and seeing someone open-carrying on Montana though if you took the opposite trip (Calgary to Sweetgrass).

[Scott5114]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

I've always wondered what foreign tourists must make of this place. (LVB north of Sahara, where it starts to get seedy, and where it technically isn't the Strip anymore)

[DTComposer]

For everyone giving Kyle crap for his sarcastic takes... Legitimately, if you crossed I-15 from Sweetgrass to Montana and headed to Calgary, other than road signage and things relating to the metric system, what is that noticeably different between the two countries?

It won't be evident unless you have to use it, but what about universal healthcare?

Healthcare isn't really part of culture. The US Healthcare system is not an integral part of the American identity.

Sure, but in this particular example, land use, flora, and fauna (the things that would largely go unchanged along I-15/AB-4) aren't part of culture either.

And while it may not be culture, I'd argue the US Healthcare system is very much an integral part of the American discourse nowadays.

[formulanone]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

I've always wondered what foreign tourists must make of this place. (LVB north of Sahara, where it starts to get seedy, and where it technically isn't the Strip anymore)

I'm on another board with lots of non-USians and they will sometimes say they visited these kinds of places to pop a cap, just for the sake of being able to so in a controlled environment safe space.

[kkt]

I mean, I'm not saying that Canada has no unique identity, it certainly does, especially Quebec, but they consume the same music and TV shows, watch the same sports, having tipping culture and car centric cities.

If it weren't for Québec, Canada would have no culture.

Wow.  Just... wow.

I mean... I got the perfect example in poutine. Poutine was ridiculed in the rest of Canada until they actually tried it, now they claim it's theirs.

That great classic Canadian children's and young adult book series, Anne of Green Gables, by an author from and mostly set in Prince Edward Island.

[kkt]

If it weren't for Québec, Canada would have no culture.

Close.  You're so close.

If it weren't for Québec, Canada would basically be the United States.

Assuming this isn't sarcasm I've read some pretty ridiculous things on here and this take the cake.

For everyone giving Kyle crap for his sarcastic takes... Legitimately, if you crossed I-15 from Sweetgrass to Montana and headed to Calgary, other than road signage and things relating to the metric system, what is that noticeably different between the two countries?

I haven't done the Montana-Calgary trip but this is my experience with Seattle-Edmonton-Yellowknife and back.

More things named after kings and queens, and prime ministers that the United States didn't have.  They did not build 4-lane limited access highways in rural areas where they were not warranted; 2-lane roads were ample.  Proportionately to their population, more refugees were accepted than in the United States.  People seemed nicer, more polite, more willing to be concerned about others.  Less litter and graffiti in the towns.  The differences are not overwhelming like night and day, but they are noticeable.  The United States had cheaper lots of things - gas, food, other goods.  This was 2012.

Universal health care absolutely is a part of the culture.  Though the United States is the outlier in lacking it, not Canada the outlier in having it.  You don't just let people suffer; it's a horrible waste to force them into bankruptcy or such serious medical problems that they can no longer to work.  And we in the states spend even more much money, we just spend it on different parties arguing about who should pay the cost of each tiny prescription or part of a procedure rather than just getting it done.

[kkt]

I'd honestly argue gun rights would be a more apropos answer along those lines.

Also not something you'd readily notice on a drive from one city to another, unless there's a billboard for a gun show or something.

I've always wondered what foreign tourists must make of this place. (LVB north of Sahara, where it starts to get seedy, and where it technically isn't the Strip anymore)

That's a real place?  I figured it must be from the Simpsons or something.  wow.