Why is "liberal" a dirty word?

Anyhoo,

The United States are linked to different forms of national identity and political culture. Its most famous symbol is the Statue of Liberty. Its myths of national identity recount the exploits of individual heroes, from George Washington at Valley Forge to Davy Crockett at the Alamo.

Canada, on the other hand, was originally defined by loyalty to the Crown. There are few individual heroes in Canadian folklore; Laura Secord perhaps - who warned the British-Canadian troops that the Americans were invading, Louis Riel, perhaps the most recognizable name in Canadian history, was executed as a traitor. Earlier symbols of Canadian national identity tended to be collective entities, such as the Crown, the RCMP, the Hudson's Bay Company; today, social programs such as health care insurance are often presented as the essence of what defines Canada as a nation. However, that doesn't make it a socialist country - not by far. It's just culture.

Anyway, these longstanding differences in national interpretation are ultimately rooted in different colonial origins, which made Canada and the United States into different fragments of European civilization. Thus, the fragment theory.

I hope that all made sense. It does in my head, anyway.

 

Well, would you be willing to admit you're vastly outnumbered?