{"id":332,"date":"2004-11-29T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=332"},"modified":"2004-11-29T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T01:06:04","slug":"third-world-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Third World Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American sociologist Nora Jacobson gives a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A15638-2004Nov26.html\">revealing glimpse<\/a> of the small-minded, resentful and envious anti-Americanism of Canadians:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In &#8220;officially multicultural Canada,&#8221; hostility toward Americans is the last socially acceptable expression of bigotry and xenophobia. It would be impossible to say the things about any other nationality that Canadians routinely say &mdash; both publicly and privately &mdash; about Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very true, in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\">Colby Cosh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American sociologist Nora Jacobson gives a revealing glimpse of the small-minded, resentful and envious anti-Americanism of Canadians: In &#8220;officially multicultural Canada,&#8221; hostility toward Americans is the last socially acceptable expression of bigotry and xenophobia. It would be impossible to say the things about any other nationality that Canadians routinely say &mdash; both publicly and privately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Third World Country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}