Canadians and americans

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Do they have a similar lifestyle, mentality, taste in food, music et cetera?

I've listened to the likes of Sum 41 (Canada), American Hi-Fi (US) and so on, and i have to say that the music is almost idetical to one another, they also tend to be more obese than people from most other countries, maybe it has something to do with canada being americas little brother?

Didn't Canada use to be a part of the US?

Canada is America. So is Mexico. The United States of America are in North America as is Canada. Canada never used to be part of the US and none of the US ever belonged to Canada. Well, perhaps by proxy as the thirteen colonies were British as was Canada.

Canadians are closely associated to indigenous peoples of the United States. Maybe it's the vicinity, but culturally they're similar in lifestyles. Canada is our biggest trade partner, and vise-versa. I think that combined with such close ties over the years have made our two countries alike. Like all regions though, theirs differences but nothing extremely different.

Mexico is almost an entirely different thing, mexican lifestyle, mentality, food and music taste is significantly different to american and canadian ones, they're also latinos.

1.) Yes, Canada and the US are very similar. A lot of the saner people in the US are practically indistinguishable from Canadians, I can say the same about Tea Partiers and Neo-Cons.

2.) I don't know.

3.) No, they were both British Colonies until 1781 when the British surrendered to American Revolutionaries. I believe that Canada is still a part of the British Commonwealth

But they're still "American", sooo...

Of course, so are Brazilians too.

I know.

So does the guy writing this.

Cool.

The US is like Canada's evil twin.

I don't see any difference between Canadians and Americans.

Britain never passed a law in parliment granting independance to America!

canada is nobody's "little brother" but is a great and enlightened nation of noble aims. i've only been up there a few times, but what i noticed is that they are dissimilar to americans in certain respects- the average canadian is more laid back about lots of things that would be "hot button" topics down south of the border. canadians noted how americans got weirdly atwitter over the "wardrobe malfunction" on american tv a while back, and many canadians thought we were being juvenile about it. canadians think american censorship [and americans' assent to it] is a quaint thing, and morally hypocritical. they see oprah being forced to say "va-jay-jay" like a little kid, and roll their eyes at this childish faux-prudishness. many canadians also wonder what about our dysfunctional health care system we consider so admirable, when 51 million american citizens are denied affordable care, and are resentful of americans' bad-mouthing their universal health care system, which a solid majority of canadians prefer to our non-system. they see our politics and are repulsed by what they call our "rampant individualism" and fear the same thing happening to them.
just my 2-cents' worth, adjusted for inflation

But we declared it anyways; we're our own people.

Besides, look how far we've advanced past Britain.

Come on! That's like saying Austria is the same as Germany!