Gordon Sinclair, 1973, spoke up and made a great apeech praising the Americans. I am positive you will love it.

Here you can listen to it.

Gordon Sinclair: "The Americans"

originally delivered via radio broadcast 5 June 1973 in Ontario Canada

Audio mp3 of Original Broadcast

[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.]

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there -- I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it is the United States that hurries into help, Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.
Now, I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on now, you, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind -- as they will -- who could blame them if they said "the hell with the rest of the world."
Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes." When the railways of France, and Germany, and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of 'em are still broke.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters -- with the year less than half-over -- has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.
Also in this database: George W. Bush - Remarks in Halifax on U.S. & Canada relations

Nice to read this again.

Once I thought Middle east is the hotbed of anti-American sentiments but since I have come to Canada, I realized how wrong I was.

Canada may be the most anti-America country I have seen so far, especially in Ontario and Quebec. It is awful and hurting me so much

Originally Posted by phoenix80

Once I thought Middle east is the hotbed of anti-American sentiments but since I have come to Canada, I realized how wrong I was.

Canada may be the most anti-America country I have seen so far, especially in Ontario and Quebec. It is awful and hurting me so much

You should move to Alberta I keep telling ya.

Originally Posted by Italian Guy

You should move to Alberta I keep telling ya.

I have been thinking of that and I'll go there once I am done at University here

Originally Posted by Italian Guy

Gordon Sinclair, 1973, spoke up and made a great apeech praising the Americans. I am positive you will love it.

Here you can listen to it.

Gordon Sinclair: "The Americans"

originally delivered via radio broadcast 5 June 1973 in Ontario Canada

Audio mp3 of Original Broadcast

[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.]

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French, and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971, and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous, and possibly the least-appreciated, people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Well who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did, that's who.

They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan, and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. And I was there -- I saw that. When distant cities are hit by earthquake, it is the United States that hurries into help, Managua, Nicaragua, is one of the most recent examples.
So far this spring, fifty-nine American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Policy, all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. And now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans.
Now, I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on now, you, let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar, or the Douglas 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or a women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times, and, safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They're right here on our streets in Toronto. Most of them, unless they're breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend up here.
When the Americans get out of this bind -- as they will -- who could blame them if they said "the hell with the rest of the world." Let somebody else buy the Israel bonds. Let somebody else build or repair foreign dams, or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes." When the railways of France, and Germany, and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both of 'em are still broke.
I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name to me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They'll come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they're entitled to thumb their noses at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians.
And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters -- with the year less than half-over -- has taken it all. And nobody, but nobody, has helped.
Also in this database: George W. Bush - Remarks in Halifax on U.S. & Canada relations

Damn straight.

Originally Posted by Italian Guy

You should move to Alberta I keep telling ya.

Alberta is nice, a bit more conservative than eastern Canada, but they too have their misconceptions, generalities and stereotypes about Americans.

I have friends there that used to live in the US (served in the military) and have since gone back. They are constantly fighting a battle to educate the misinformed about Americans and American life. I don't think it is so much as "Anti-Americanism" as it is just not understanding.

I've experienced this everywhere in Canada, but I have yet to experience any "Anti-American" sentiments.

Interesting. But yeah I would ultimately agree with you on that. Negative comments on Americans that I heard in Canada or from Canadians were actually much stereotyped. So what would these 'misunderstandings' on the part of Canadians be? Curious to hear what you think, as if I understand correctly you have traveled around the country pretty much.

Americans have them of Canadians too eh? Like take off eh and like where can I like buy a lumberjack shirt and a pet beaver eh? IG, look up the Bob and Doug MacKenzie. Friggin canadians, they're like what French Russians who speak English right?
(Said with extreme tongue in cheeks bros)

Originally Posted by Italian Guy

Interesting. But yeah I would ultimately agree with you on that. Negative comments on Americans that I heard in Canada or from Canadians were actually much stereotyped. So what would these 'misunderstandings' on the part of Canadians be? Curious to hear what you think, as if I understand correctly you have traveled around the country pretty much.

It is CBC's fault