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you should try being Canadian, nobody knows anything about us, and we're freaking right next to the US. It has been shown many, many times the prevailing US view of us is that we all live in igloos, say "eh" after every sentence, that it snows year round here, our capital city is Toronto (it's not) and we all love hockey (we do).

There isn't many people who really take the time to learn about anybody other than their own group/country/whatever.

It's kind of a shame.

I am Canadian of South Korean origin and we tend to like Canada more than USA.

But anyways, I've tried many ways to get a Windows compatible North Korean software via China or Japan. No luck.

Damn, even I (is that arrogant?) thought Toronto to be the capital of Canada.

Hey, I live in Brazil. A lot of people think there are monkeys on the streets, that our capital is Rio de Janeiro (or worst, Buenos Aires) and that the only think you'll see here is soccer and carnival.

As Dave Foley put it:

"And of course, how can we discuss Canada without discussing the weather. Yes, it is cold in Canada - it is very, very cold. Are you happy now? Yes, the average year-around temperature is 273 degrees below zero - but that is celcius."

Note that what's known as Communism nowadays in the World that has continued to evolve since the 1950s is not the original "Communism" but "Marxism-Leninism" and its derivatives. Juche falls by that definition into Communism because it is, according to messiah Kim Il Sung himself, a derivative of Marxism-Leninism. Other than that, it is rather unoriginal and further developments by Kim Jong Il have many parallelisms with Stalinism, another Communism variant.

What the parties and Nations choose to call themselves has little relevance, as the Chinese Communist Party can hardly be defined as Communist by any standard(more like 1900s European Capitalism) and the "Socialist" Parties in Europe and the developed world in general are, at their best, Socially Liberal Conservatives.