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Article: Book review essay: Americans and Canadians: ongoing arguments over differences and similarities.(Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States)(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
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- June 22, 2006
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Edward Grabb and James Curtis. Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 319 pp. $45.00 paper.
Books that stress differences between Canada and the United States are popular in Canada. Many Canadians have been taken for Americans while abroad, then asked the innocent but infuriating question: "What's the difference?" Numerous books, articles, and speeches have been undertaken with detailed, and often exaggerated, answers to that question. The more differences pointed out, especially those that suggest Canadians are morally superior to Americans, the more popular the work is apt to be. (1) It ...