{"id":6670,"date":"2010-12-02T01:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T05:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2010-12-02T01:28:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T05:28:15","slug":"smug-but-nursing-that-inferiority-complex-urban-canada-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/smug-but-nursing-that-inferiority-complex-urban-canada-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Smug, but nursing that inferiority complex: urban Canada in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/12\/01\/whipsawed-by-wikileaks-canadian-self-doubt-and-smugness\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Geddes<\/a> seems puzzled by the apparent contradiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can we settle on the putdown of preference when it comes to right-wingers expressing their disdain for Canada?<\/p>\n<p>They often resort to either of two seemingly contradictory, but equally condescending, lines about Canadians: we are insufferable in our sense of moral superiority, or we exhibit an equally tiresome inferiority complex.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m willing to take my lumps, but do they have to come from both directions at once? Can\u2019t you decide if my national ego is obnoxiously over-developed or pathetically under-developed?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can only assume that Mr. Geddes hasn&#8217;t attended too many parties in Toronto or Ottawa. Both psychological maladies are often displayed by the same people . . . sometimes in the same conversation. Torontonians in particular are capable of sneering at vulgar Americans in one moment, then fretting that they don&#8217;t pay enough attention to our &#8220;world class&#8221; city in the next. Short of finding a way of expressing both thoughts <em>simultaneously<\/em>, I&#8217;d say that was a strong indication that urban Canadians can hold both thoughts without an overwhelming sense of contradiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Geddes seems puzzled by the apparent contradiction: Can we settle on the putdown of preference when it comes to right-wingers expressing their disdain for Canada? They often resort to either of two seemingly contradictory, but equally condescending, lines about Canadians: we are insufferable in our sense of moral superiority, or we exhibit an equally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,53],"tags":[522,139,207],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-politics","tag-ottawa","tag-psychology","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1JA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}