“I Guess Those Canadians Really Like Their Fish”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.21.02 | 12:09 AM ET
American Cliff Burkett recently expanded his world horizons by visiting Canada. “If you look for it on a map, you’ll realize it isn’t far from the United States,” he writes in the most recent issue of the Onion, America’s finest satirical news source. “But once you cross the border from America to Canada, you’ll immediately know you’re in a foreign land. “Burkett saw bilingual signs, spent money without dead presidents on the front and ate a breaded-fish sub at Mr. Sub. He returned to the U.S. deeply affected by his trip to the Great White North. “When I finally made it back home, I started to see things through a different lens. I no longer viewed the world as being all the same. Now I see it for what it is: America and a bunch of other places with subtle differences from us.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
