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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dextra" data-source="post: 2602460" data-attributes="member: 5705">Canadia!One big difference in post-secondary education between the US and Canada is the number of alcohol-related deaths and injuries.  Even though the drinking age in the US is higher, a culture of excess has built up around campuses, and many students' health and education suffer because of it.  In Canada, the drinking age is lower (19, 18 in Quebec), and there seems to be less of a forbidden-fruit syndrome.  Our American friends come up and drink themselves silly for a few weeks whilst they adjust to the new paradigm, but almost all then join in with their <s>more responsible</s> less alcoholic Canuck peers.  If you are going to consider education in Quebec, do yourself a favour and try and pick up a rudimentary French course along the way.  Sure, McGill and Concordia offer a brilliant course calendar, but you may be hard-pressed to find a part-time job (or meet anyone outside of campus) in Montreal if you don't understand French.I disagree with the statement that Canadians are less patriotic than our US counterparts.  It's just we're not so in-your-face flag-waving about it.  We're more polite.  To proclaim our superiority too loudly might make other countries' citizens feel inadequate, and that wouldn't be very nice now, would it?As a general rule, people tend to get along better here.  To paraphrase one of Pierre Trudeau's sons, this can largely be explained by the fact that no matter where you live in Canada (well, except Toronto, and they don't really count as Canadians anyhow, right?) winter is coming (aside: been reading Game Of Thrones, and this saying of the Starks now strikes truer than ever before!).  It gives us a bit of a staunch determined feel, a mild smugness of our toughness, pioneering spirit, and "we're all in this together" to survive the infamous Canadian Winter ov Doom, and we tend to be more tolerant of differences.  Well, except for those damned close-minded rightwing Albertans.  (PS tongue=in cheek.  I heart my oilmoney-soaked redneck friends!)Honestly, though, in general the majority of our differences are subtle, most charming.For more information, I heartily encourage you to read<a href="http://cwd.ptbcanadian.com/" target="_blank">Canadian World Domination</a></blockquote>

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