what's up guys i'm dan from the new
travel as most of you know i'm a
canadian who recently spent a year
living in mexico now I'm back in Canada
and I wanted to make a little video
talking about how Canadians and Mexicans
are different and if there's any ways
that we are the same don't go anywhere
because I got a lot to say about this
one and the first thing I want to talk
about is one comment that I got from
Mexicans as soon as I moved back to
Canada and it is donde esta la gente for
English speakers out there literally
means like where are the people and I
think it's a great place to start
explaining the first cultural difference
between Canada and Mexico Mexico just
has a lot more life on the streets there
are always people working and walking
and talking and just doing their lives
on the streets a great example of that
is the street food culture that you have
I mean I experienced it a lot in Mexico
City but honestly I saw it all over the
country from the north to the South you
have street food vendors you have people
eating their lunches their dinners their
breakfasts all like on the streets but
it goes deeper than just the food it's
also about the sort of cities that we've
built Canada is a pretty modern place
like a lot of our cities have developed
over the last hundred years or so which
means that we grew up with cars the
people who planned our city built them
with cars in mind the United States is
often similar in this way you have these
very wide cities with very far away
suburbs so you don't have the same
population density in one area I quite
like when I go to Mexico I like the fact
that you have people and life
concentrated together sometimes it gets
to be too much I was living in the
center of Mexico City which is like the
heart of the madness and sometimes like
I'll literally like open the door to our
building and when you walk outside it's
like you ever seen like a school of fish
how they all like that's what the
sidewalk is like sometimes I
there's all these people walking and
it's it's intense
and to be honest there came a point when
the intensity got to be too much for me
where I started to crave open spaces and
creative solitude like I wanted to be
away from it all all right it's getting
crowded in here but enough about the
geography and enough about where that
people are living let's talk about the
soul let's talk about the insides of
what makes people Canadian what makes
the Mexican and before I get into this I
just want to point out something that
should be obvious it's it's that Canada
is a very multicultural place so I can
only speak in generalizations about what
makes someone Canadian if a family moves
from Mexico to Canada and then their
kids go up in Canada like those are
Canadians but there still are some
generalizations you can make about
Canadians and one of them is that we
tend to be more closed at least at first
people always say like Canadians are
friendly and stuff we are friendly but
it's a different sort of friendly than
you have in Mexico in Mexico like I
don't know people are so open people are
so full of energy and friendly and and
my girlfriend explains it like this if
you're lost on the streets in Canada
people will help you but you usually
have to know to ask like if you ask
someone for help they will always help
you but in Mexico like if you're lost
like people would just come up and say
like you need help like what's what's
happening what do you need you know like
they make the initial contact okay I'm
gonna try to fix this video we're
getting way too bright how's that okay
anyway I talked about the multicultural
miss multi-coat is that a word
multicultural miss of Canada and the
fact that yeah you have people from all
different backgrounds all different
ethnicities and religions and stuff like
that
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on the flipside of that Mexican culture
has a depth to it like to use a metaphor
like if this is the world Canadian
culture is spread out we are taking like
bits of culture from all different
countries and mixing that into some
weird new thing called Canada where as
Mexican culture is more specific you
know you have the indigenous cultures
who lived in Mexico before the Europeans
arrived and then you have the Spanish
conquest and then you have the mixing of
indigenous elements with the Spanish
elements which have now created this
very unique culture known as Mexico and
you have all these stories and
traditions and histories and legends and
myths like there's this weird part of
Mexico that makes you feel like you will
never fully understand Mexico whereas I
don't feel that way about Canada I don't
know if that's just because I'm Canadian
like maybe Mexicans will think like no
we understand Mexico but I actually I
don't think so because the Mexicans I've
talked to they also expressed that idea
that there's like a surreal element to
Mexico like a part of it that can't be
easily understood or explained and for
me that's very fascinating it's a big
part of the appeal of Mexico the fact
that you will not know everything the
fact that it will continue to surprise
you I mean just look at the Mexican flag
you guys have this epic image of this
eagle eating a snake on top of a cactus
that tells the myth of how the Aztecs
knew to build Mexico City in that
specific place where they saw that scene
happening Canada we have a leaf it's a
nice leaf I like our leaf but we don't
have this like epic origin story where a
newer country the Europeans came over on
boats there were French people there
were English people it looked like they
might have two different countries for a
while but they worked out the
differences and we created this country
called Canada and we signed some
documents
there were no egos involved you know
like it was a more straightforward story
okay guys I could go on and on about
this but I wanted to give you guys a
chance to share some of your own
opinions so just before making this
video I made an Instagram post asking
people how they think Canadians and
Mexicans are different
I got a few responses here new are cat
says culture lifestyle yeah for sure I
mean we definitely we definitely have
very different lifestyles June Park says
driving he said it not me but I would
tend to agree you guys drive crazy down
there as Ali Fernandez all my friend Ali
she says Canadians are nice but not as
chatty as Mexicans yeah that's what I
mean we are both friendly but it's like
a different kind of friendly mister Cobo
says breakfast
you gotta elaborate a little bit mister
Kobo's I don't know what you mean about
our breakfast are you insulting Canadian
breakfast
don't ever say anything about a
Canadians breakfast just kidding mad
we're cool miss Gaby bow says Mexicans
hug a lot even when meeting someone
first time in Canada you just nod yeah
Canadians we like to nod I polite little
nod yep nice to meet you
yep anyway that was fun I should do
viewer responses more often hit me up on
Instagram if you want to be a part of
future things like that and yeah I mean
I could go on and on about the
differences between the two cultures
obviously there's a lot that's different
but this videos starting to get long and
I want it to have a chance to talk about
one thing that I think is a big
similarity between Mexico and Canada so
most of you will know that our Canadian
Prime Minister is a guy named Justin
Trudeau but what people might not know
is that Justin Trudeau's father
a guy named Pierre Elliott Trudeau was
actually the Prime Minister of Canada
way back in the late 60s and Pierre
Elliott Trudeau has a famous quote about
what it's like being neighbors with the
United States he compared it to sleeping
with an elephant
because when you're sleeping in bed with
an elephant whenever this big elephant
moves you feel the movement it doesn't
mean you don't like the elephant but you
are always affected by this elephant
that you are sharing a bed with and in
many ways Mexico and Canada
we are both sharing a bed with the
United States sometimes we don't want to
be sorry to any American viewers who are
watching but sometimes it gets to be too
much especially when the crazy politics
and stuff are happening it's like
sometimes you wish you could just find
another bed for a little bit but
generally speaking we are heavily
influenced by American culture I mean I
know in Mexico obviously there's a lot
of immigration to to the United States
and a lot of people see it as a chance
for a better life believe it or not
that's true in Canada as well depending
on what industry you're in if you're in
the tech industry or entertainment or
something like that
it's always like okay you can get to
this level as a musician in Canada but
if you really want to get famous you got
to get to this level and move to you
know Los Angeles or New York so I think
a lot of Canadians have kind of for a
long time we've sort of lived in the
shadow of the United States like this
year the the NBA the basketball Finals
the Toronto Raptors finally one became
the first Canadian team to ever win a
NBA championship and this is like a huge
deal for Canada it kind of like puts us
on the map in the United States it's
like we're not just that big neighbor to
the north for you guys forget about most
of the time we're actually a country
with like cool cities and cool people
and we can actually beat you guys at
basketball sometimes and I'm sure a lot
of Mexicans feel that way too like you
have an awesome culture with a lot of
deep history and just there's a lot
happening in Mexico that doesn't get
talked about that often because the
United States gets so much of the
attention for North America so yeah
we're in this together guys Mexicans and
Canadians we are sharing this bed
together I need to stop using the bed
image it's just making me laugh I just
make sure Trudeau Trump and the Mexican
president
amlo I'll share your bed together I
think this videos gone on too long but I
hope you've enjoyed this if you have let
me know leave a comment and also share
your own thoughts on how Canadians and
Mexicans are different how we might be
the same and yeah that's it for today as
always guys i'm dancing-- the new travel
see you next time write out my coffee
got cold that was gross
okay bye
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