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- canada@lemmy.ca
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- canada@lemmy.ca
Canada is a very European country, except geographically of course. 😋
Europe is like 45 km off the coast of Canada .
Greenland is not in Europe either. Iceland is.
Greenland is also not a member of EU, although they could have been if they wanted to.I’m talking about France.
Who isn’t talking about France? Those bastards
OK that would be Saint Pierre and Miquelon not really France, so Mostly the same principle of what Greenland is to Denmark.
not really France
Why is it not France?self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_collectivity
The COMs differ from overseas regions and overseas departments, which have the same status as metropolitan France but are located outside Europe.
Doesn’t change the fact that Greenland is not in Europe. Greenland is part of North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenlandGreenland is the world’s largest non-continental island[98] and the third largest area in North America.
And it is also European.
Edit: please note the comment below.
This is incredibly rude to Greenland, and shows zero respect for their identity as Greenlanders independent from Denmark and EU.
Greenland is an autonomous part the Kingdom.
They are neither Danish nor European.
It is sad to see such an ignorant contrarian comment upvoted. Even after the facts have been presented.
Greenland is seeking 100% independence from Denmark, Greenland is not Denmark, it is a member of “rigsfællesskabet” ( Unity of the Realm ) just like Faroe Islands and Denmark.It’s like arguing that Australia is British and European just because they are a member of commonwealth.
True. What I wanted to express was my (European) support for their resistance against Trump specifically and my hope that the EU will support Greenland against him as well. In my attempt to be snappy, I phrased it in a way that can be understood to be opposed to Greenland’s independence and I apologise. Wasn’t my intent.
Ah Greenland, the Australopithecus of EU dominance.
Culturally speaking it is way more similar to the US. But due to US politics people might not want to acknowledge this right now.
yea, even the french parts are culturally closer to the usa than to france. we drive everywhere, we still use imperial for many things (inb4 someone posts The Chart), a lot of cultural products consumed here are american, more and more of them not even translated…
There are fundamental societal aspects where Canada absolutely is way way more European. Like Canada has only a third the homicide rate.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2025001/article/00011-eng.htmRates of homicide incidents remain considerably higher in the United States (5.7 homicides per 100,000 population) than in Canada (1.9 per 100,000)
Canada also has healthcare for all. They don’t have psychopathic regulations like USA does like death penalty and 3 strikes and you’re out.
So no Canada is not like USA, in that it is not a sociopathic society like USA is. Just because they like Whiskey and Disney doesn’t make them the same.
I thought so too, before I had been there. But now, after also having lived there for 1,5 years, I think Canada is more US light than European.
And dental and mental health are only for rich people.
Great, now they can start boycotting Eurovision.

Does an equivalent positive meme of this message exist?

Douze points
Then they take turns counting the countries that joined
So, will they compete in the ESC?
Wikipedia says “Participation in the contest is primarily open to all broadcasters with active EBU membership”, so I would think so.








