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An article from Maclean’s titled “Why America Keeps Coming for Canadian Culture” became a hot topic in the “c/canada” community on the Canadian online forum Lemmy. In the comments, users repeatedly said they had no idea that Hollywood heavyweights like William Shatner, Jim Carrey, John Candy, and Pamela Anderson were actually Canadian — sparking both patriotic calls to “be prouder of the country” and more cynical takes dismissing it as “just about the money in the end.”
Why America Keeps Coming for Canadian Culture
Source: macleans.ca / Read the original article here
What people said
> John Candy — born in Newmarket, Ontario (deceased)
What on earth is in the water in Newmarket that produces people this funny?
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Canada has long maintained broadcasting content rules known as “CanCon,” part of a broader system meant to keep its own culture from being swallowed up by the massive American cultural sphere next door, and the Maclean’s article behind this discussion touches on questions in that same vein. William Shatner and John Candy both came up through Canadian-born comedy shows like SCTV, and Jim Carrey honed his craft in Toronto comedy clubs — Canada has exported an enormous amount of talent to Hollywood, yet that talent’s origins rarely register with audiences. What split the thread was how to read this “invisibility”: a patriotic reaction insisting Canada should be prouder of itself on one side, and a more cynical view that the topic only gets attention for commercial reasons on the other. Worth noting that neither reaction really engages with the article’s actual argument — both are casual chatter sparked by the nationality of familiar celebrities.
*This article is excerpted from the thread “Why America Keeps Coming for Canadian Culture” on the overseas forum Lemmy’s c/canada, freely translated into Japanese by our editorial team. Our site takes responsibility for the translation.
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