It interests Americans that Canada is clean and empty and unimplicating; the largest country in the world that doesn't exist. Without distinct music or food or capacity for rudeness- less rich, less angry, less complicated, less neurotic, less dark, less brilliant. (Richard Rodriguez)

It interests Americans that Canada is clean and empty and unimplicating; the largest country in the world that doesn't exist. Without distinct music or food or capacity for rudeness- less rich, less angry, less complicated, less neurotic, less dark, less brilliant.

Richard Rodriguez

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