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I don't want to say that Trump made you a favor, but I realized that I had completely forgot about Canada. Are you aware of this? (lemmy.world)
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I mean, sure, it's not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).

And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not "Canada-aware" for most of my life.

I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.

Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.

I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.

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[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a very big difference between calling it the 'first' (lower case 'f' and the 'First' (upper case 'F' World War. The lower case 'f' implies that it was the first war to be fought on a world canvas. (However, it was far from being the first such war. The American Revolution was, in fact, just part of a bigger global world war. ) The upper case 'F' implies it will be part of a series, and is thus part of the name. The correct quote has the 'f' as lower case, not the upper case as you altered it to be. This is evident in the context of the quote. He was looking for a unique name for the war, and that unique name was 'World War', or 'The Wold War'. It was the first war to be called that, making it a unique name, in his perspective. He was pretty sure there would be another war, but to be unique it would certainly not be called The World War, or even the Second World War. Otherwise The Second Great War would have been an acceptable name.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So... why was it called the Second World War and not the Second Great War, if no one ever referred to WWI as as the First World War before WWII started?

See what you're doing is doubling down on historical revisionism because you can't admit you're wrong. It was called the First World War before WWII started, in fact before WWI even ended. WWII wouldn't have been called that if no one was referring to the previous war as the First World War before that.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Because it would have been the THIRD "Great War'.

By the time the second period came around, everyone agreed this was a continuation of the 1914-18 war, not a new war.

I am not debating that the 1914-18 war was called a 'World War' while it was ongoing, my point is that it never had the label capital 'F' 'First' added to it, or 'World War One', until the second period started.

The 'Chronicles of Riddick' franchise was not called 'Chronicles...' or any reference to Riddick' as the main character until the second film came out. No one actually expected a sequel until well after the first iteration was released. Absolutely no one planned for a second Riddick movie while the first was being shot. They were worried about Pitch Black even breaking even.

Same with the nomenclature of the 1914-18 war.