Are NZ and Canada alike?

c_man

What do ye reckon, Canada and New Zealand are eerily similar. Both have overshadowing, brash neighbours which are way more popular yet nearly universal acclaimed as being better from their brothers? Am I onto something, yes I think so. But what exactly was this magic, that allowed both colonies to become that way?

dan1895

No

corner of hells

c_man wrote: »

What do ye reckon, Canada and New Zealand are eerily similar. Both have overshadowing, brash neighbours which are way more popular yet nearly universal acclaimed as being better from their brothers? Am I onto something, yes I think so. But what exactly was this magic, that allowed both colonies to become that way?

Im trying to.figure out how questions you have asked in that post , then statements before a move towards a diplomatic incident.

Stinicker

When you flush the jacks the water goes down the opposite way in New Zealand.

Links234

Nope, NZ is middle earth, Canada is America's hat.

liz lemoncello

As a Canadian I have actually wondered if New Zealanders, who, I believe, are often taken for Aussies, resent it, as many Canadians, (myself included) would resent being taken for an American. I also wonder if Austrians would resent being taken for German.

KungPao

c_man wrote: »

What do ye reckon, Canada and New Zealand are eerily similar. Both have overshadowing, brash neighbours which are way more popular yet nearly universal acclaimed as being better from their brothers? Am I onto something, yes I think so. But what exactly was this magic, that allowed both colonies to become that way?

The criminals from Britain went to Australia, and the bigots from Britain went to the US i.e. KKK kinda people, not so different from their cousins in the Orange Order, whereas the nicer British people went to Canada and NZ?

c_man

I see a poster on Murrays wall, "New Zealand - The Canada Of the South"

RobbingBandit

Eh! What the devil are you talking aboot.

WesternZulu

You could add Ireland too...very similar to NZ...more so than Canada.

corner of hells

liz lemoncello wrote: »

As a Canadian I have actually wondered if New Zealanders, who, I believe, are often taken for Aussies, resent it, as many Canadians, (myself included) would resent being taken for an American. I also wonder if Austrians would resent being taken for German.

My friend is from Canadia , she tends to get a bit unbalanced when I ask her is she French Canadian..

Karpackie

Worked in both in my time. In NZ for fúck all money, in Canada for too much money. The climates and the hemispheres changed; how really sound the people are in both countries didn't.

Both are far less brash than the geographical cousins they are associated with. They both have far nicer food. And they are both up with their Ireland as decent, mature, stable and fundamentally fair social democracies.

I'd recommend both of them as places to work and visit in a heartbeat.

My name is URL

New Zealanders care a lot more about their environment and the natural beauty of their country. Most Canadians seem more than happy to destroy theirs for a quick buck.

KungPao

My name is URL wrote: »

New Zealanders care a lot more about their environment and the natural beauty of their country. Most Canadians seem more than happy to destroy theirs for a quick buck.

There's a lot of Canada though, not much of NZ.

Not excusing it, just making the point.

braddun

its very different

KungPao

I just realised that NZ looks like a boot, like Italy. Or perhaps a fractured leg, but quite similar.

tomwaterford

liz lemoncello wrote: »

As a Canadian I have actually wondered if New Zealanders, who, I believe, are often taken for Aussies, resent it, as many Canadians, (myself included) would resent being taken for an American. I also wonder if Austrians would resent being taken for German.

or even worse irish mistaken for English!!!!:eek::eek:

slightly_broke

WesternZulu wrote: »

You could add Ireland too...very similar to NZ...more so than Canada.

lived and worked in new zealand

bar the fact that agriculture is very important to both countries , i didnt see that many similarities

canada and new zealand have in common a sort of reserved , prudent calvinistic mindset

both nations have a very large ulster protestant heritage

slightly_broke

canada is quite a bit richer than new zealand

Donkey Oaty

slightly_broke wrote: »

canada and new zealand have in common a sort of reserved , prudent calvinistic mindset

I find that this attitude was particularly evident in snooker's Bill Werbeniuk.

slightly_broke

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

I find that this attitude was particularly evident in snooker's Bill Werbeniuk.

he of the twenty pints before and during a match fame

snookers hayday was in the eighties , great charechters though im too young to really have seen werbeniuk

enormous man

Duckworth_Luas

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

I find that this attitude was particularly evident in snooker's Bill Werbeniuk.

I only truly understood Lorde's inane warblings after I read Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion