Canada?

In class Tuesday we all began to admit how little we actually know about Canada. I can sadly admit that even though I grew up with Canada as my next door neighbor, (literally, I can see Canada from my street corner) I knew very little about its history until I read the Marger chapter and did my presentation. Along with the idea we discussed in class of how side by side Canada is much better then the United States and that is why it is often not taught in the the United States, I also have another idea of why it is not taught. It seems to me that people just expect that because Canada is so close to us that, naturally we would know their history, the same way we would know our own. I also know that for myself personally I never had much interest in learning about Canada because it was not a foreign place to me. Canada was a quick walk away and not some exotic foreign land, that I was interested in learning about. Because Canada is so close to us, we just take it for granted that they are not another country and that they are exactly the same as us. I think the United States school systems should begin to start including Canadian history in their curriculum.
-Ryan Fleming blog post # 25