There are at least two places called Sydney in Canada. One in BC (Sidney) and one in Nova Scotia. Some years ago, an English couple booked a plane ticket to Sydney and were very surprised to arrive in Nova Scotia. They had planned to visit Australia.
I think you didn't include sth very important. Perhaps it is because you are in Korea and people use the metric system and you could quickly understand -50 degrees and 2 meters. People from the States usually have no idea what I'm talking about, so I have to tell them something like 86 degrees in the summer and 6 feet of snow in the winter. When you cross the land border you also have to pay attention to the speed limit signs. They look the same in both the US and Canada, but it's in km/h in Canada. So when you see "speed limit 55" on a highway it feels strange.
@@frostsong8715 I'm pretty sure the Canadian was listing temperatures in Fahrenheit. Outside of Mercury, there's no way it could go from -40 to 40 C in a day. And most Americans know a meter is comparable to a yard.
Im Canadian and I remember when i was in Europe, ppl thought I was American until I told them I was Canadian and immediately they started treating me differently and were so excited lmao
Yes, when I was in Normandy a lady at the gas station became all excited when she heard we were Canadians, she directed us to the D-Day beaches and wanted to chat. I am guessing we may have been near Juno beach where Canadians landed and cleared huge swaths of the countryside. They remember what their parents told them.
@@franknwogu4911 sorry to hear about it but I'll gladly let you know that in history class and as well as U.S. documentaries they do at least bring up the canadian front on D-day even if its briefly. That being said I have much appreciate for the Canadians military as I do the other allies that fought in the 2nd world war.
Successful people don't become that way overnight .most people you see as a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life..
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There is one thing that is repeated in these videos and that is that the woman from the USA (Christina) clearly shows a fairly large degree of courtesy and respect for the others. She deliberately seems a bit restrained, but at the same time polite without this affecting her role in the videos. I really like the way she is. When this is mentioned, others in the videos are also skilled and do an excellent job.
I'm from Minnesota, USA and when they say that we are basically Canadian they are right. I can relate to everything Canadian, even how we say "bag." I've also seen bagged milk here lol.
When Sydney mentions the 2 meters of snow on the end, the look on Christina's face is like she's trying to do the conversion from metric to imperial. I would certainly have to as an American.
Considering she lives in Korea, she’s probably used to it by now. I’m American living in Japan and you get used to metric especially when it’s all they use and easy to convert.
@@AsianWave1020 You are right. Imposing it is not the way to go in the States. Do you know that there are 1 dollar coins in the US? It would cost less to the government, but people do not want them.
Only younger (under 40) Canadians would measure the snow that way. Every Canadian I know that's over 40 would say 6 feet instead of two meters. Believebit or not, Canada used the Imperial system too until about 1980.
My father’s oldest sister married a man from Vancouver, moved there and raised my cousins there. My uncle always said “Canada and the US --- Sisters from the same Mother. Very much alike, but they have their differences”.
"Canadian being offended for being mistaken as American" Think about Europeans being thought to be American. Happens all the time here in Asia. People are like "are you white? then you must be American".
I’ve never heard an Asian ask that. They ask if you are from America or Europe but never leave out the other. The whole world knows that white people came from Europe and that the USA is modelled after Europe. And of course how important Europe is to global history
Same with other Asian in America or any western countries "oh you're from Asia are you japan/korea/china?" Me: no i am Indonesian Other Asian countries exist but most western people know only the East Asia countries.
Oh wow ...actually it should be like this: "you're white then you just be from Europe" (where all the "white" people came from). Someone from the US could also be African or native... that's weird stereotype..
@@marchauchler1622 It is. Here in Taiwan there actually are African Americans being rejected from English teacher jobs just because they don't look "American". I'm serious.
Bagged milk is also super common in South American countries and Israel. When talking about the weather, they should make sure there are no confusions between Celsius and Fahrenheit. US is the only country in that uses Fahrenheit. With 30 Fahrenheit you can get snow while 30 Celsius is tropical hot (._.)
I'm from Wisconsin, so the Dakotas, Minnesota, the U.P., and we usually get Canada's weather in the winter. I'm not saying we're holding Sydney personally responsible, but, so anyway, thank you for that.
I've lived in Alberta for probably close to 40 years. During that time I've experienced snow every month of the year. I remember it snowed once on July 1, and once we had 2 days of snow in the middle of August. On the other end of the scale, in 1999, after some snow early, the entire month of December it was around 20 degrees Celsius. The ski hills were open and people were skiing in shorts and tshirts.
A lot of Canada lives close to the US border, so while there is a lot of space in land, much of it is sparsely inhabited. As for Canadian winters...she's bang on. Though the east coast isn't so cold, but the winters are wet. Though I had snow on my birthday this June in St. John's, Newfoundland.
I have never seen bagged milk. I live in British Columbia for many years in the Surrey and Vancouver areas, now going to Richmond as part of my work, and I have yet to see bagged milk.
You know, this was an enjoyable video. I think most of us, Canadians and Americans, have been around long enough to tell the difference between the two of us. When you compare us, the differences are quite small when you make similar comparisons with other people in the world. Even our common parent country, the UK, is much more different, but not that much when you continue the comparisons with all the nations of the world. These comparisons are fun, but when the rubber meets the road, I trust these two countries, along with Australia and New Zealand more than any other nations. When I was younger, I had served in the USN and seriously considered the RCN when I got out. To me, I would have continued serving with my brothers.
Sydney giving Canadian winter temperatures and snow fall totals while at the same time ctualky questioning why more immigrants come to the US than Canada.
Yeah, there's also other factors. A lot more of Canada is wilderness, and there are also self-governing Indigenous people's regions, which (I'm guessing) aren't so concerned about attracting immigrants.
Actually, on a per capita basis, Canada receives a much higher amount of immigrants than the US. For example, theUS population is 330 million and it gets roughly 2 million immigrants each year. In Canada, our population is much smaller, at 38 million, yet we receive 400,000 immigrants every year.
I didn't read any comments about languages or culture. In Québec, (around 8M people) French is the official language. In New-Brunswick French and English are two official languages and the 8 other provinces I don't know if the have an official language, if so, it's English. Canada as a country has the two official languages. It's the reason why we have bilingual writing on everything we buy in any store. And we use the metric system like all other countries in the world. Cultural aspect is also a difference between Québec and other provinces. The fact of speaking French makes it so that our writers, our songs, our theater, our cuisine, our artists, our TV and radio shows aren't all english translations of the same that is in USA. They aren't France french neither. To my knowledge, Québec is the only place in all of North America where French is spoken by the majority of it's population.
I grew up in the state of Wisconsin and now live in Minnesota. Minnesota (and basically the upper midwest in general) is basically the Canada of the US. Similar weather, the "nice" reputation, a big love of hockey (compared to the rest of the US,) and a very popular convince store chain that sells bagged milk (Kwik Trip.)
i definitely pronounce it about too i believe it depends where you're from the more aboot sound could be a french canadian thing or a new foundland thing
I think it's just what it sounds like to you, like you can't hear it yourself as it's actually pretty subtle. I'll bet if you talked to somebody from the states they would notice it. It's not really as bad as 'aboot' it's just a different vowel sound than most American dialects
I've always lived in ontario. It is literally the same weather as new york, winter is December to febuary, and spring is April to may. Summer is June to september, and fall is late September to november.
As a Canadian Sydney is WONDERFUL, she is so extremely knowledgeable in different uses of words all over Canada. As a Canadian I know many differences exist in the vocabulary used here vs in the states and the UK however I find it extremely difficult to pin point because of how interchangeably I use different words depending on the situation or even just how I’m feeling that day, so having people like Sydney or Karrie on your channel who know so much about the differences that exist which is often overlooked has made me a loyal watcher.
Lived in Houston, TX and Toronto, ON. Canada and the USA have more similarities than differences. Personally I like both, however the Canadian winter can be a bit challenging.
@@mathlover4994 I'm not sure what skin colour has to do with it. I have a 'white' friend originally from Minneapolis who rather prefers the warmer climes of Houston. BTW, summer was pretty warm in Toronto this year with temperatures regularly hitting, 35⁰C ( 95⁰F).
@@mathlover4994 So you may. It's about individual preference and what you are acclimatised to, not skin colour. There are lots of 'brown' and 'black' people here in Canada who are perfectly happy with the weather, just not me.
Bagged milk still going strong in the eastern provinces (where i reside) where it was established as a standard to remove glass jugs. And is still the easiest to recycle and has the least carbon footprint packaging even after recycling. Your comment of : "are you American?" Never happened to me. I usually get "Are you French?". same result, i and everyone in my province kinda get annoyed by that but WE are an old French colony nonetheless.
@@lindaeasley5606 it happens you (customer) bring it back and you get another one. Keep in mind it contains less than 76% of plastic vs its jug counter part therefore lighter so cheaper also. Next time you go get a coffee in a big scale coffee shop the milk/cream in the big dispenser are also bags.
Bagged milk was actually brought into Canada when we changed to the metric system and were now producing milk in litres. It was to avoid the expense of having to change the size of moulding new plastic jugs.
@@patriciabonfield6486hi from Québec!!! Before the late 1960s, milk was packaged in heavy, reusable Imperial unit glass milk bottle, milk bags found favour with the domestic dairy industry in the early 70's, being lighter and less fragile than glass bottles. 😉
Milk bags became popular in the 1970s when Canada was converting to metric. It was easier to make the conversion with bags as opposed to cartons. Then, the government required deposits for plastic milk jugs, but not bags.
There are way more similarities between Americans and Canadians than there are differences. For example, the U.S. has more regional differences within the country than it does overall with Canada. Americans are also more direct, honest, individualistic and straightforward whereas Canadians are more passive-aggressive, collectivist, roundabout and introverted! … This probably goes back to the history of both countries where the U.S. was a rebellious British colony that defeated the British Empire and became a fully independent nation way back in 1776 whereas Canada remained loyalist and remained a part of the British Empire.
That's for the English Canadians only, French Canadian is very different and we're the second most populated province, but people treat us like we don't exist.
@@luckyduchesse8924 that is an unfortunate perspective to have, my friend. Here in western Canada, I meet Québécois regularly, and I cherish our interactions. Hope you meet some people who help change your mind!
@@colinjohnston9824 I'm sorry, I was a bit too agressive there... I meant to say that it exists a big difference between the English Canada and the French Canada, but our differences are ignored and the world remember pretty much only the English side. Even though we are almost half of the Canadian population, we are put aside worldwide and in our own country too. What's even worst, is that "Québec bashing" spirit that is going on for many years now. I guess I was just tired of this situation when I wrote that, I apologise if I sounded rude. Also, I'm not spreading hate here, I would sincerely like to get along with the west. It's just complicated to understand each other sometimes.
@@luckyduchesse8924 I understand where you are coming from. It is easy to be ignorant of the injustices inflicted on others, and to use that ignorance as a foundation for identity (WE didn't do anything wrong, it was all THEM!) The US-VS-THEM mentality is absolutely present between Canadians. Even among Anglophones. The West at odds with the East. Bc vs Ab. It is actually quite sad how divided our country is... We all have so much history to share... So much diversity... One love ❤️
Both ladies are magics to show the real similarities and diferences between US and Canada, great, we learn here together 🇺🇲🇨🇦 congrats Christina and Sydney.
As an American living in Los Angeles, California. Canadians are a very nice and wonderful people. They make me the happiest man on the planet 😊 I'm glad to be a opened minded person
In the 80's they started trying bagged milk in schools where I lived in Ohio but it was such a mess. Kids would break the bags trying to get a straw in and milk would flood the whole table.
Like individual serving bags you drink from directly? Interesting; we've never had those in Ontario. Milk is sold in large bags that go into containers with handles. You cut a corner in the bag, hold the handle, and pour from it.
@@leisurelyloner3542 yep small individual bags, which might have worked if they were designed like Capri Sun. But they were just a pillow of milk. Sounds like the bags of milk in Canada work much better.
We had individual servings of milk (white and chocolate) and fruit juice in bags when I was a kid. They were called "mini-sips" and they had a straw that poked in under a flap in the middle of the bag. Maybe they were made different from the ones in Ohio but we didn't make messes with them. As kids got older the "cool" thing to do was to just bite a hole in the corner of the bag and drink it that way instead.
Bagged milk...really only a thing in southern Ontario. They did try to introduce it on the prairies when I was a kid back in the 70'a (I was told it was for ease and lower cost of shipping) but it never took off here - most milk comes in cartons or jugs.
Regarding bagged milk, I think it's mainly an Ontario thing and it's mostly a transport/production reason. We used to have it in Alberta, but I remember a push to get rid of it because the bags were winding up in landfills and the jugs get recycled. For the winter variation of temperature, I worked in the gas drilling of Northern BC and it was -60C, then I got flown out to Calgary where there was a Chinook happening and it was +10C. I couldn't sleep that night. Felt like I was living in a sauna after the cold for a month.
When Sydney wonders why Canada has less immigration than the US, she's thinking in terms of absolute numbers. The US gets about 3 times as many immigrants as Canada does overall (but it has 9 times the population). So, if you look at the numbers on a per capita basis, Canada has an immigration rate that is triple that of the US. Canada's high immigration rate is why the population keeps growing (we'd actually have a stagnant or slowly shrinking population otherwise).
Yeah they allow around 1 million legal and between 700,000 and 1.4 million illegal immigrants per year. Another thing I noticed about Canada is that percentage wise there are way more white people than the US. Look at the least diverse cities in the US and the least diverse cities in Canada. In the US cities like Corpus Christi and El Paso (Hispanic majority) along with Memphis and Detroit (majority black) make the list. So 4 of the top 10 are majority non white and the top two are El Paso and Detroit.
@@raynemichelle2996 For the most part no. But the thing that surprising me most about canada is the sheer amount of white people. Compare Detroit, Miami, Memphis or El Paso to say Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and you'll see what I mean. Nova Scotia damn near looks like Maine waayy too many white people there.
As she said, provinces can be very different. Where I'm from in B.C. we don't have bagged milk, we sometimes get lots of rain or sleet instead of snow, and we don't say "aboot." Pretty sure our laws differ a little too :)
I guess it depends, most of the population are concentrated south of BC, which has more moderate temperature. Plus, BC is right by the ocean, so that helps with the temperature regulation. But the further north or the higher the elevation, the colder it can get. BC gets lots of rain because of the mountains which force all the rain on the west side and Alberta just gets the hot wind.
@@summertwinkle749 very true. I had a teammate from Prince George, and we'd have either rain or nothing here, and he'd be stuck with snow up to his knees haha
Canadian reacting! (Born in British Columbia, west-most province; living in Newfoundland, east-most province and an island) 1. We're not the same! Lol. We're more chill about everything. Always sorry, not very patriotic... 2. Same question? 3. I was working in retail when they started changing the bills from paper to plastic. Fun fact, many retail store cash offices don't count large amounts of bills by hand, we let machines do it. Some have bill counters that mechanically flip through them like a card shuffler but mine did it by weight. When I was trained on it we separated paper from plastic because they have different weights. At first there was a formula we had to plug into a calculator to adjust the plastic count for the weight difference and then the machine got a software update. 4. "Aboot" is a very specific region of Canada and it's not either of my provinces. It's mostly Ontario, I think. 5. Just don't call ours states! I don't mind as much if foreigners don't know the difference between a province and a territory. 6. Canada has like 3 big cities and then everything else 😅 I grew up just outside of Vancouver, which is densely packed, and then I moved to Newfoundland. The population of the whole island part of Newfoundland is pretty much just the metropolitan region of Vancouver by itself. 7. In January of 2020 over here in Newfoundland we had "Snowmaggedon." Once in a century storm that shut down the province for 3 days in the less-dense areas, a whole week in St. John's. My husband kept the side door (more sheltered) somewhat dug out during the storm so we could get out after. We had to shovel out way around the house and dig out the front door because it was completely buried. The drifts of snow up against the front of our house was half-way up out bedroom windows on the second floor. And busing? I didn't get my driver's license growing up in BC because I was in the Vancouver area and transit was great. Then I moved to Newfoundland. There isn't a bus system in my town. 8. Bagged milk hasn't been a thing outside of Ontario & Quebec since the 80s. Mom says we still had it when I was a little girl but I don't recall ever seeing bagged milk in person. 9. In Newfoundland it probably won't snow in August. Also we get icebergs in May-July.
There are federal and provincial laws in Canada as well as in the United States. For example, health, education, natural resources and marriage fall under provincial jurisdiction.
@@StephenYuan The Canadian constitution was intentionally drafted in such a way as to avoid overlapping jurisdiction between the national and provincial level. The reason for that is simple. The first document, that outlines that division of powers, was written about two years after the end of the US Civil War and the founding fathers of Canada were pretty horrified at the idea of a national vs sub-national dispute leading to civil war. The British North America Act was crafted with the lessons of the US Civil War very fresh in everyone's mind and tried, for better or for worse, to create an alternative federal structure that would avoid such strife. Also, the colonies (soon to be provinces) negotiating the deal were loathe to give up any more power to a federal government than necessary. As a result, Canada has no doctrine of federal primacy. In some ways, American states have greater autonomy but in other ways, Canadian provinces have far greater autonomy (because the feds literally have no legal right to legislate regarding a hell of a lot of important stuff). It's probably safer to say that in the US, the areas of jurisdiction tend to overlap more while in Canada they tend to be more distinct. It's far more common for Canadian courts to throw out parts of federal or provincial legislation as ultra vires (outside that government's jurisdiction) than it is in the US, essentially ruling that that government simply has no authority to legislate on that subject. Marriage and divorce are a federal jurisdiction in Canada, btw. It's the formalization of marriage and the property rights stuff that is provincial. The net result is a little funny and one of the situations where federal and provincial powers interact a lot. So the feds define what a marriage is, who can have one, and how it can end. That avoids weirdness like one province refusing to recognize marriages from another. The provinces decide on how marriage ceremonies work and how all the stuff and kids gets sorted out during divorces and such.
I knew someone from Boston who was talking about the winter weather there. They thought they knew snow and cold, until they spent one winter in Calgary (Alberta, Canada.) Even with Calgary getting periotic warm spots (Chinook winds that jump the temperature by +30C in a few hours, so from -10C to +20C) they were so surprised by actual cold and snow. A few times, for many days or weeks long, it will stay at -20C or even -30C. At times there will be multiple days of -38C in the day and -45C at night. And snow. A foot of snow is a light day. 6 feet of snowfall (in just 1-3 days) is a "few times per winter" event. Snow starts in late October, by November it is staying around without breaks. Snow lasts until April or May.
Calgary actually usually doesn't get that much snow compared to some other Canadian and some American cities, it just had such a large window of the year it can happen. It's not often there will be snow excess of a foot in one storm. What does happen is seemingly nonstop snow for days that doesn't accumulate very quickly and a week or two of -20 in an otherwise very erratic cycle of freezing and thawing throughout the rest of the winter. Usually permanent ground covering snow starts in mid to late November and ends around the beginning of March and anything outside of that window melts quickly. This year we had totally bare ground by just before valentines day because January was so nice as it often can be.
4:11 We do not have 51 states, just 50 currently. There has been talk about Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state. Washington is a state on the west coast. Washington, D.C. is a district, not a state. It's between Maryland and Virginia.
Recently moved to Canada from Hong Kong and just discovered this channel, I'd like to watch the differences between US and Canada but Lauren and Christina are so cool, wanna you guys could do a Lauren (UK) vs Christina (US) vs Sydney (Canada) one day? can't wait to see it Actually bagged milk is new to me as well, I have some in my fridge now, actually, I should have bought that milk bottle someday
I had never heard of or seen bagged milk before. Bag in box wine is popular in places because you drink what you need and it automatically seals up from air and lasts longer. It was a bit confusing with temperature comments (-40 to 40 degrees) because we have Fahrenheit measurement, and it is rarely converted to Celsius. I always need to recalibrate temps and speeds when talking to my sisters in Australia. When traveling to Canada in the past I was stunned when I revisited the same city where it was sunny and warm in summer, but I came back and it was freezing, polar weather. Totally like it was a different city. My experience meeting Canadian people was also always positive.
"proper" containers? You may not have meant it this way but that sort of makes it sound like there is something "improper" or "wrong" about bags. Bags work great! :-)
I’m american and when i was in elementary school, I remember having milk in a bag or a square plastic pouch. But idk if they still have them anymore in schools.
Hehe, Canada is just like russian syberia. Similar weather and seasons) And sentence about "better walk than wait bus and freezing" so russian. Of course, this applies specifically to winter. Because in summer, in many regions we also have from 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. Much love to canadians and americans from russians.
Canada 🇨🇦 is a country with a territory larger than US 🇺🇲 , but like Australia 🇭🇲 , Canada isn't a populous country compared to the territory , anyway , thank you a i love Canada , my favorite country from American Continent 🥰🇨🇦🇺🇲🇭🇲
I moved to the desert and the first snow I ever experienced I made my hubby grill steaks. It was awesome and we had wood delivered and it was basically a whole tree ( 2 cords) and I had to stack and load up the shack alone with coyotes circling and it was a experienced for sure. Not bad but NOT good
-Canadian accents vary from place to place. Someone from BC is going to sound different from someone from NB. -Bagged milk was invented by a father of several children who was concerned about storage space in the fridge. It's easy to stack and you go through them quickly, so the milk doesn't have time to spoil. Bagged milk is still very much in use. -The reason for Canada's smaller population is because a large percentage of Canada's landmass is considered uninhabitable. Of course, there are always people who make do like the Inuit, but such a lifestyle is definitely not suited for just anyone. -The weather, too, will vary depending on where you are. Sydney lives in the mountains, so obviously she'll experience colder temperatures than, say, someone who lives in the Maritimes.
The more Canadians and Americans make videos to convince me they aren't the same, the more I believe they are the same. The differences are ridiculous. We even have more differences in my country from different regions than they have from 2 different countries lol
LOL They have to do it to make the Canadians feel better. They hate being mistaken for Americans (understandably but it is technically true considering the whole continent)
@@jross4622 Yes, I have noticed that. Canadians sometimes create weird stuff just in order to differentiate themselves from Americans. EH is a good example.
@@mathlover4994 Ça dépend on vient d'où. If you can understand this sentence, you see that, as a child, movies and kid's shows were not from the States. So, the difference is larger.
@@mathlover4994 do you honestly think Canadians sat down to come up with a cunning linguistic difference and then disseminated it just to be less American?
Wow! Snow in April. I'm from coastal BC, the same province as Sydney. I was planting my garden in late March last year. I knew it was colder longer in the Rockies, but I didn't know it was long. Brrr.😉
@@LJBSullivan I'm about a three Hour drive North of Vancouver. We get ridiculous amounts of rain and usually when the temperature isn't pleasant, but still generally above freezing. In terms of days with snow on the ground, one to three days in a season. Each has it's challenges and benefits I suppose.😉
I lived in Connecticut for 17 years and Indiana for the past seven and I can attest that the weather also varies greatly. Also we would get 5 feet of snow in October and we would still be getting snow April 1 pretty much every single year in both areas that I lived in.
An interesting point. Regional differences across the country may be larger than from state to state in each region. There are so exceptions, though. In my experience, Vermont and New Hampshire (right next to each other) are similar geographically, but they are very different politically and culturally. West Virginia and Maryland share a border but they are very different in pretty much every way (except for the Maryland counties right along the border). Differences in geography, immigration, urbanization, etc., can make states different even if they are right next to each other or in the same region.
Surprised they didnt mention anything about scaling systems lol. miles,pounds,oz,feet,inch to kilometers,kilos,grams, centimeters etc. Definitely a subject to talk about. personally I think the imperial system sucks :)
because the metric system isn't solely Canadian. This is specific to each country comparison video. Almost the entire world uses metric. Imperial and Fahrenheit are actually European systems of measurement, weight, and temperature before Europe ditched it.
The Canadians haven't completely done away with the imperial system, and we Americans use metric fairly often. I've worked places where lengths were usually measured in millimeters, bolts on cars (including American cars) are typically in millimeters, our drink bottles are often in liters, engine displacements are in liters, pharmaceutical doses are in milligrams, etc. Some of the measurements aren't commonly used, like degrees Celsius, but most Americans are somewhat familiar with a few of the units. A lot of countries use a mix of systems so it seems disingenuous to me to say we use the imperial system while virtually every other country uses the metric system.
@@chitlitlah In 1959 the inch was redefined to be based on the metre (1" = 0.0254m *exactly)* and the pound was redefined to be based on the gramme (1 lb = 453.59237g *exactly)* so technically imperial measures are actually metric measures.
Nope, spent all my life here in Canada and still not used to winter hahaha..... I mean I love December to January here, but the winter starting February to April is dreadful xD
I grew up in northern Minnesota. Apparently we say "bag" like Canadians. No bagged milk in MN, but I did see it in Winnipeg (closest big Canadian city to us). I was disturbed by the fact that I identified more with the Canadian. I guess it just has to do with the vast cultural differences within the US. And also that the differences between the US and Canada are noticeable but still minor.
I have always though that if something bad is happening in Europe, I'm going for Canada as an alternative. :D As a Swede I have heard that it is the most simular country to live in for us Swedes. And my grandpa has a cousin there too. So some "connection" thou.. And most people in Sweden are pretty good at English(some of us is even studying French too).
That's false, Denmark, Norway and Finland are much closer to Sweden than Canada is. Canada is extremely similar to the USA, if you claim Canada and Sweden are similar than by default the USA is also similar to Sweden (which it isn't).
@@franknwogu4911 Canada is more similar to Europe than the US is even if Canada is also similar to the US. There are different aspects. Canada has an insurance/healthcare system that's similar to European systems like for ex the Swedish system. There are other things that's similar to Sweden like the climate, business etc
@@ellenolsson3703 Ok bruh, even though we have the same sports, language, religion, holidays, hobbies, architecture and entertainment Canada is more similar to Europe because healthcare.
Point Pelee in Ontario is mainland Canada's southernmost point and it's further south than Massachusetts. In fact, it sits on the same latitude as Barcelona, Spain.
Bagged milk started with the conversion from imperial to metric as it was easier to quickly retool to one litre bags than retool the jugs and cartons, however it was promoted as being more environmentally friendly as the bags occupied far less landfill space. You won't see bagged milk in say Alberta for about forty years now but it's still common in Ontario. One thing that people liked about bagged milk was freezing them till they were needed, though this may be possible with jugs and cartons, it was just more common to do so with bagged milk.
As a Canadian, I'm going to have to dissagree with you 100%. We share a trans-continental border with the USA, it makes literally no sense that we would be closer to European culture when both the USA and Canada were seeded from the same colonists, at the same time, for essentially the same reasons. USA and Canada have their differences, but those are almost entirely political. Our culture and social contexts are nearly identical.
I'm from Ottawa and I think we must have more of an American influence here because some of Sydney's pronunciations sound odd to me. Like "about". I definitely pronounce it like they do in the States.
nope. Sydney is pronouncing these words with an American accent. Typically Canadians say about with a short Scottish, back of the throat "out" sound that doesn't really exist in the USA, instead of the american "ow" sound (which Lindsay seems to use). Here is one of many examples of the Canadian "ou" sound: th-cam.com/video/PwI5z29BAjQ/w-d-xo.html In an earlier video, Sidney threw me off with her "sorry", as well.... Canadians typically have a hard "O" sound, compared the American soft "O".
@@hasnibrahiti6970 Hi. Ottawa is really just a quiet government town of about a million people. A lot of people say it is boring but it really depends what you like to do. There are lots of bike paths and you can go hiking in the nearby Gatineau hills. And there's a decent restaurant and bar scene. Not too many clubs though. There are a number of festivals throughout the year and the city is pretty multi-cultural. We're a couple of hours drive to Montreal or even New York state. About 4 hours drive to Toronto. Winters can be pretty brutal but you'll be ok with the right clothing. And we get a decent amount of warm weather. About 5 months where it's warm or even hot. And a few months where it is cool but not super cold. Hope this helps.
@@kontiuka thank you so much! I'm more of an introvert so I'll deal with the lack of attraction. 😅 It's nature and people who fascinates me more. And the lifestyle too. 🙏🏼
The difference is long vs. short enunciation... aside from that, it's not really different, but Americans don't hear our pronunciation right because it's quicker.
I will say we’ve added a little color to our money but eventually we should transition to polymer notes with a better res presentation in figures on the bills themselves.
The biggest difference I found during my visit to Canada is that most shops there close at 5 PM and all day on Sundays, even larger stores and in big cities. In America, all larger stores are pretty much open 7 days a week, usually until 9PM or so. Only smaller shops close early.
in Washington State it snows more in the mountain areas than it does in the city. it rarely snows and rarely gets cold snaps in Seattle during winter time it just gets cold.
Having travelled through both countries, I sort of have the impression that your judgement depends on whether you want to focus on the things that are very similar or on those that are quite different. The glass ist half full or half empty.
The weather in the US is weird. In some places you will die of a heat stroke, other places like Minnesota and Alaska you could die near instantly from hypothermia. The temperatures range from anywhere in the US around 120 to -50 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s not including windchill or humidity.
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Every time she says “Hi, I’m Sydney from Canada”, this comes to my mind: “Hi, I’m Vancouver from Australia.”
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That is a good one
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
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George Vancouver was from England, so that doesn't sound too unreasonable.
"And i'm Sydney from Canada" every time she says that i'm thinking about Australia , but i love both Sydney 🇭🇲😂
Aussies
But Sydney is not the capital city of Australia. It's Canberra 🇦🇺
@@mar754 i know that
There are at least two places called Sydney in Canada. One in BC (Sidney) and one in Nova Scotia. Some years ago, an English couple booked a plane ticket to Sydney and were very surprised to arrive in Nova Scotia. They had planned to visit Australia.
@@gerardacronin334 It's Sidney in BC and Sydney in Nova Scotia. Same pronunciation though.
Even though we are neighbors we still have many differences! If there are any other differences you can think of let us know! -Christina 🇺🇸
If you bump into a canadian they will apologize... If you bump into a Bostonian that won't happen
I think you didn't include sth very important. Perhaps it is because you are in Korea and people use the metric system and you could quickly understand -50 degrees and 2 meters. People from the States usually have no idea what I'm talking about, so I have to tell them something like 86 degrees in the summer and 6 feet of snow in the winter. When you cross the land border you also have to pay attention to the speed limit signs. They look the same in both the US and Canada, but it's in km/h in Canada. So when you see "speed limit 55" on a highway it feels strange.
Metric system. Price of gas. Drinking age. Not much college sports in Canada.
@@frostsong8715 I'm pretty sure the Canadian was listing temperatures in Fahrenheit. Outside of Mercury, there's no way it could go from -40 to 40 C in a day. And most Americans know a meter is comparable to a yard.
Canada wants peace with the world
America wants War with the world
Im Canadian and I remember when i was in Europe, ppl thought I was American until I told them I was Canadian and immediately they started treating me differently and were so excited lmao
Not true
Yes, when I was in Normandy a lady at the gas station became all excited when she heard we were Canadians, she directed us to the D-Day beaches and wanted to chat. I am guessing we may have been near Juno beach where Canadians landed and cleared huge swaths of the countryside. They remember what their parents told them.
That’s kinda sad tbh
@@PatriceBoivin too bad the usa did most of the work and took most of the casualties on d-day and we don't get praised for shit
@@franknwogu4911 sorry to hear about it but I'll gladly let you know that in history class and as well as U.S. documentaries they do at least bring up the canadian front on D-day even if its briefly. That being said I have much appreciate for the Canadians military as I do the other allies that fought in the 2nd world war.
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These girls are so calming. My nurse did my vitals before me bine watching 7 of these videos, then after. I went down 22 points diastolic.
When she said Massachusetts I definitely felt a sense of pride lmao
same
Lots of people of Nova Scotian decent live in MA and New England.
Christina's a lovely medicine to us!! Please continue making videos of her and also with Lauren!! Love you too Sydney!
There is one thing that is repeated in these videos and that is that the woman from the USA (Christina) clearly shows a fairly large degree of courtesy and respect for the others. She deliberately seems a bit restrained, but at the same time polite without this affecting her role in the videos. I really like the way she is. When this is mentioned, others in the videos are also skilled and do an excellent job.
I'm from Minnesota, USA and when they say that we are basically Canadian they are right. I can relate to everything Canadian, even how we say "bag." I've also seen bagged milk here lol.
I grew up in Michigan, and we pronounce many words like Canadians.
I love these US Canada comparisons! Sydney is a great addition to World Friends. As an Australian, I’m learning so much about Canada 🇨🇦.
Lot of Australians come to Canada to work on the oil industry.
Many come to work in the ski industry too.@@tylerdavidson2400
Canadian polymer bills are actually an Aussie invention. Thanks to our Aussie cousins!
We have them in the UK too (only recently)! Guess the US just needs to catch up now
When Sydney mentions the 2 meters of snow on the end, the look on Christina's face is like she's trying to do the conversion from metric to imperial. I would certainly have to as an American.
Considering she lives in Korea, she’s probably used to it by now. I’m American living in Japan and you get used to metric especially when it’s all they use and easy to convert.
Meters to feet is among the easiest conversions. A meter is not far off from a yard. So two meters is roughly around six feet.
@@AsianWave1020 You are right. Imposing it is not the way to go in the States. Do you know that there are 1 dollar coins in the US? It would cost less to the government, but people do not want them.
Only younger (under 40) Canadians would measure the snow that way. Every Canadian I know that's over 40 would say 6 feet instead of two meters. Believebit or not, Canada used the Imperial system too until about 1980.
Imperial system is cancer.
My father’s oldest sister married a man from Vancouver, moved there and raised my cousins there. My uncle always said “Canada and the US --- Sisters from the same Mother. Very much alike, but they have their differences”.
"Canadian being offended for being mistaken as American"
Think about Europeans being thought to be American. Happens all the time here in Asia. People are like "are you white? then you must be American".
I’ve never heard an Asian ask that. They ask if you are from America or Europe but never leave out the other. The whole world knows that white people came from Europe and that the USA is modelled after Europe. And of course how important Europe is to global history
Same with other Asian in America or any western countries "oh you're from Asia are you japan/korea/china?"
Me: no i am Indonesian
Other Asian countries exist but most western people know only the East Asia countries.
Oh wow ...actually it should be like this: "you're white then you just be from Europe" (where all the "white" people came from). Someone from the US could also be African or native... that's weird stereotype..
@@marchauchler1622 It is. Here in Taiwan there actually are African Americans being rejected from English teacher jobs just because they don't look "American". I'm serious.
@@borisglevrk wow that's so racist...I guess unless you're Apache, Navajo, Irokois etc. no American looks American
Bagged milk is also super common in South American countries and Israel.
When talking about the weather, they should make sure there are no confusions between Celsius and Fahrenheit. US is the only country in that uses Fahrenheit. With 30 Fahrenheit you can get snow while 30 Celsius is tropical hot (._.)
I also have seen bagged milk in the Baltics and Poland 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱 🥛
I see bagged milk in american school lunches. I hate you driftwood
@@mar754 Yeah in east Europe bagged milk is common. Not only bagged milk but bagged everything that is liquid dairy products.
When the Americans catch up, they'll understand temperatures properly. Until then, let their imaginations run wild.
Fahrenheit is used in cooking in Canada.
Another great video about different cultures , thanks you guys 🇨🇦🇺🇲
Stop posting Henry
I'm from Wisconsin, so the Dakotas, Minnesota, the U.P., and we usually get Canada's weather in the winter. I'm not saying we're holding Sydney personally responsible, but, so anyway, thank you for that.
I’m from South Dakota, and I can agree.
The "Alberta Clipper" is a very common cyclonic storm system here in Minnesota in the winter.
You can also buy bagged milk at Kwik trip
And Montana
Just weather offsales, bud. You're getting all that fresh air wholesale. We're just passing the savings on to you.
I've lived in Alberta for probably close to 40 years. During that time I've experienced snow every month of the year. I remember it snowed once on July 1, and once we had 2 days of snow in the middle of August. On the other end of the scale, in 1999, after some snow early, the entire month of December it was around 20 degrees Celsius. The ski hills were open and people were skiing in shorts and tshirts.
A lot of Canada lives close to the US border, so while there is a lot of space in land, much of it is sparsely inhabited.
As for Canadian winters...she's bang on. Though the east coast isn't so cold, but the winters are wet. Though I had snow on my birthday this June in St. John's, Newfoundland.
yeah here in halifax ns we dont get as much snow as bc and over there. tho i do remember years where the snow would be higher than the doors.
Awww love Canadians 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
This reminds me of Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿
As someone from Québec, I have next to no idea about any of the language differences between American/Canadian English. But, yes : Canada
I have never seen bagged milk. I live in British Columbia for many years in the Surrey and Vancouver areas, now going to Richmond as part of my work, and I have yet to see bagged milk.
Sydney has a very competent understanding of, ‘Canadiana.’ I enjoy her interaction with Christine. Plus she’s a charming Canadian representative 🇨🇦
You know, this was an enjoyable video. I think most of us, Canadians and Americans, have been around long enough to tell the difference between the two of us. When you compare us, the differences are quite small when you make similar comparisons with other people in the world. Even our common parent country, the UK, is much more different, but not that much when you continue the comparisons with all the nations of the world. These comparisons are fun, but when the rubber meets the road, I trust these two countries, along with Australia and New Zealand more than any other nations. When I was younger, I had served in the USN and seriously considered the RCN when I got out. To me, I would have continued serving with my brothers.
Sydney giving Canadian winter temperatures and snow fall totals while at the same time ctualky questioning why more immigrants come to the US than Canada.
I mean, I wouldn't want to go to the US just on political grounds... The cold might suck, but at least it isn't intentionally trying to kill you
Yeah, there's also other factors. A lot more of Canada is wilderness, and there are also self-governing Indigenous people's regions, which (I'm guessing) aren't so concerned about attracting immigrants.
@@TheDSasterX feelings mutual. The US wouldn’t want you on political grounds either
Actually, on a per capita basis, Canada receives a much higher amount of immigrants than the US. For example, theUS population is 330 million and it gets roughly 2 million immigrants each year. In Canada, our population is much smaller, at 38 million, yet we receive 400,000 immigrants every year.
@@TheDSasterX someone got triggered
In South Africa we also have bagged milk...but I thought it was a normal thing, all to find out many countries don't have them🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I didn't read any comments about languages or culture. In Québec, (around 8M people) French is the official language. In New-Brunswick French and English are two official languages and the 8 other provinces I don't know if the have an official language, if so, it's English. Canada as a country has the two official languages. It's the reason why we have bilingual writing on everything we buy in any store. And we use the metric system like all other countries in the world.
Cultural aspect is also a difference between Québec and other provinces. The fact of speaking French makes it so that our writers, our songs, our theater, our cuisine, our artists, our TV and radio shows aren't all english translations of the same that is in USA. They aren't France french neither. To my knowledge, Québec is the only place in all of North America where French is spoken by the majority of it's population.
In Argentina we also have bagged milk and bagged yogurt. The bag in which they come is called "sachet", which is a French word for sack.
I grew up in the state of Wisconsin and now live in Minnesota. Minnesota (and basically the upper midwest in general) is basically the Canada of the US. Similar weather, the "nice" reputation, a big love of hockey (compared to the rest of the US,) and a very popular convince store chain that sells bagged milk (Kwik Trip.)
I moved from Wisconsin and I miss Kwik Trip I miss those cheese breadsticks with marinara sauce. Where did you live in Wisconsin? Was it Madison
@@personidk691 La Crosse. But my mom was from Middleton so we would go to Madison a lot to visit my grandparents.
I'm Canadian and everyone in my area in Canada pronounces "about" the "American" way. I'm pretty sure we also spell it "about" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i definitely pronounce it about too i believe it depends where you're from the more aboot sound could be a french canadian thing or a new foundland thing
I think it's just what it sounds like to you, like you can't hear it yourself as it's actually pretty subtle. I'll bet if you talked to somebody from the states they would notice it. It's not really as bad as 'aboot' it's just a different vowel sound than most American dialects
Every Canadian I've met says "aboot" and every one of them swears that they don't say it that way lol
@@the80386 do you regularly meet people out west? East? Toronto area? Younger/older? I'm curious about the demographics of Canadians you've met
And people from Minnesota pronounce "about" the Canadian way! Lolol
I've always lived in ontario. It is literally the same weather as new york, winter is December to febuary, and spring is April to may. Summer is June to september, and fall is late September to november.
As a Canadian Sydney is WONDERFUL, she is so extremely knowledgeable in different uses of words all over Canada. As a Canadian I know many differences exist in the vocabulary used here vs in the states and the UK however I find it extremely difficult to pin point because of how interchangeably I use different words depending on the situation or even just how I’m feeling that day, so having people like Sydney or Karrie on your channel who know so much about the differences that exist which is often overlooked has made me a loyal watcher.
As a “Canadian” I fucking hate this country
And I can’t wait to fucking leave
Lived in Houston, TX and Toronto, ON. Canada and the USA have more similarities than differences. Personally I like both, however the Canadian winter can be a bit challenging.
Texas summer can be challenging.
You look brown. For me as a White, Texas summer is more challenging than Toronto's winter.
@@mathlover4994 I'm not sure what skin colour has to do with it. I have a 'white' friend originally from Minneapolis who rather prefers the warmer climes of Houston. BTW, summer was pretty warm in Toronto this year with temperatures regularly hitting, 35⁰C ( 95⁰F).
@@austincrasta7455 I have a friend who is brown and he prefers to live in the desert of Sahara than in Minneapolis.
@@mathlover4994 So you may. It's about individual preference and what you are acclimatised to, not skin colour. There are lots of 'brown' and 'black' people here in Canada who are perfectly happy with the weather, just not me.
Bagged milk still going strong in the eastern provinces (where i reside) where it was established as a standard to remove glass jugs. And is still the easiest to recycle and has the least carbon footprint packaging even after recycling. Your comment of : "are you American?" Never happened to me. I usually get "Are you French?". same result, i and everyone in my province kinda get annoyed by that but WE are an old French colony nonetheless.
Seems like they could be easily punctured and leak,though
@@lindaeasley5606 it happens you (customer) bring it back and you get another one. Keep in mind it contains less than 76% of plastic vs its jug counter part therefore lighter so cheaper also. Next time you go get a coffee in a big scale coffee shop the milk/cream in the big dispenser are also bags.
Bagged milk was actually brought into Canada when we changed to the metric system and were now producing milk in litres. It was to avoid the expense of having to change the size of moulding new plastic jugs.
@@patriciabonfield6486hi from Québec!!! Before the late 1960s, milk was packaged in heavy, reusable Imperial unit glass milk bottle, milk bags found favour with the domestic dairy industry in the early 70's, being lighter and less fragile than glass bottles. 😉
@@robert-antoinedenault5901 Growing up in Quebec I am old enough to not only remember glass bottles, but also the milkman who delivered them!
Milk bags became popular in the 1970s when Canada was converting to metric. It was easier to make the conversion with bags as opposed to cartons. Then, the government required deposits for plastic milk jugs, but not bags.
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Ahhh yesss, the "About" word is the easiest to tell Americans & Canadians apart!
No. wrong. same as U.S., Canada has lots of different accents. ABOOT is Ontario
@@linebrunelle1004 I agree, aboot is more Eastern half of Canada I guess, I'm in Vancouver and say it as a bout.
There are way more similarities between Americans and Canadians than there are differences. For example, the U.S. has more regional differences within the country than it does overall with Canada. Americans are also more direct, honest, individualistic and straightforward whereas Canadians are more passive-aggressive, collectivist, roundabout and introverted! … This probably goes back to the history of both countries where the U.S. was a rebellious British colony that defeated the British Empire and became a fully independent nation way back in 1776 whereas Canada remained loyalist and remained a part of the British Empire.
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That's for the English Canadians only, French Canadian is very different and we're the second most populated province, but people treat us like we don't exist.
@@luckyduchesse8924 that is an unfortunate perspective to have, my friend. Here in western Canada, I meet Québécois regularly, and I cherish our interactions. Hope you meet some people who help change your mind!
@@colinjohnston9824 I'm sorry, I was a bit too agressive there... I meant to say that it exists a big difference between the English Canada and the French Canada, but our differences are ignored and the world remember pretty much only the English side. Even though we are almost half of the Canadian population, we are put aside worldwide and in our own country too. What's even worst, is that "Québec bashing" spirit that is going on for many years now. I guess I was just tired of this situation when I wrote that, I apologise if I sounded rude. Also, I'm not spreading hate here, I would sincerely like to get along with the west. It's just complicated to understand each other sometimes.
@@luckyduchesse8924 I understand where you are coming from. It is easy to be ignorant of the injustices inflicted on others, and to use that ignorance as a foundation for identity (WE didn't do anything wrong, it was all THEM!) The US-VS-THEM mentality is absolutely present between Canadians. Even among Anglophones. The West at odds with the East. Bc vs Ab. It is actually quite sad how divided our country is... We all have so much history to share... So much diversity... One love ❤️
Both ladies are magics to show the real similarities and diferences between US and Canada, great, we learn here together 🇺🇲🇨🇦 congrats Christina and Sydney.
As an American living in Los Angeles, California. Canadians are a very nice and wonderful people. They make me the happiest man on the planet 😊 I'm glad to be a opened minded person
In the 80's they started trying bagged milk in schools where I lived in Ohio but it was such a mess. Kids would break the bags trying to get a straw in and milk would flood the whole table.
Like individual serving bags you drink from directly? Interesting; we've never had those in Ontario. Milk is sold in large bags that go into containers with handles. You cut a corner in the bag, hold the handle, and pour from it.
@@leisurelyloner3542 yep small individual bags, which might have worked if they were designed like Capri Sun. But they were just a pillow of milk. Sounds like the bags of milk in Canada work much better.
We had individual servings of milk (white and chocolate) and fruit juice in bags when I was a kid. They were called "mini-sips" and they had a straw that poked in under a flap in the middle of the bag. Maybe they were made different from the ones in Ohio but we didn't make messes with them. As kids got older the "cool" thing to do was to just bite a hole in the corner of the bag and drink it that way instead.
Bagged milk...really only a thing in southern Ontario. They did try to introduce it on the prairies when I was a kid back in the 70'a (I was told it was for ease and lower cost of shipping) but it never took off here - most milk comes in cartons or jugs.
Very common in Quebec as well.
You can find them. Saskatoon here
Bagged milk is damn popular in India for some reason
Southern Ontario here. We have it all! Bags, jugs, cartons, you name it. Maybe not IV's.
We have bagged milk here in Nova Scotia and that's all we use in our household.
That was an interesting video! Thank u a lot
Regarding bagged milk, I think it's mainly an Ontario thing and it's mostly a transport/production reason. We used to have it in Alberta, but I remember a push to get rid of it because the bags were winding up in landfills and the jugs get recycled. For the winter variation of temperature, I worked in the gas drilling of Northern BC and it was -60C, then I got flown out to Calgary where there was a Chinook happening and it was +10C. I couldn't sleep that night. Felt like I was living in a sauna after the cold for a month.
When Sydney wonders why Canada has less immigration than the US, she's thinking in terms of absolute numbers. The US gets about 3 times as many immigrants as Canada does overall (but it has 9 times the population). So, if you look at the numbers on a per capita basis, Canada has an immigration rate that is triple that of the US. Canada's high immigration rate is why the population keeps growing (we'd actually have a stagnant or slowly shrinking population otherwise).
growth is not happiness. look what is happening
I think America is getting a lot more illegal immigrants now.
Yeah they allow around 1 million legal and between 700,000 and 1.4 million illegal immigrants per year. Another thing I noticed about Canada is that percentage wise there are way more white people than the US. Look at the least diverse cities in the US and the least diverse cities in Canada. In the US cities like Corpus Christi and El Paso (Hispanic majority) along with Memphis and Detroit (majority black) make the list. So 4 of the top 10 are majority non white and the top two are El Paso and Detroit.
@@DavidJohnson-dp4vv Are white people preferable to you? Most migrants to Canada aren't white and that's great imo
@@raynemichelle2996 For the most part no. But the thing that surprising me most about canada is the sheer amount of white people. Compare Detroit, Miami, Memphis or El Paso to say Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and you'll see what I mean. Nova Scotia damn near looks like Maine waayy too many white people there.
As she said, provinces can be very different. Where I'm from in B.C. we don't have bagged milk, we sometimes get lots of rain or sleet instead of snow, and we don't say "aboot." Pretty sure our laws differ a little too :)
I guess it depends, most of the population are concentrated south of BC, which has more moderate temperature. Plus, BC is right by the ocean, so that helps with the temperature regulation. But the further north or the higher the elevation, the colder it can get. BC gets lots of rain because of the mountains which force all the rain on the west side and Alberta just gets the hot wind.
@@summertwinkle749 very true. I had a teammate from Prince George, and we'd have either rain or nothing here, and he'd be stuck with snow up to his knees haha
I remember when I was in 1970's and 1980's in Korea, small pouches of milk sold in convenience store.
And also I had that kind of milk holder at home.
How about bagged yogurt in India
Canadian reacting! (Born in British Columbia, west-most province; living in Newfoundland, east-most province and an island)
1. We're not the same! Lol. We're more chill about everything. Always sorry, not very patriotic...
2. Same question?
3. I was working in retail when they started changing the bills from paper to plastic. Fun fact, many retail store cash offices don't count large amounts of bills by hand, we let machines do it. Some have bill counters that mechanically flip through them like a card shuffler but mine did it by weight. When I was trained on it we separated paper from plastic because they have different weights. At first there was a formula we had to plug into a calculator to adjust the plastic count for the weight difference and then the machine got a software update.
4. "Aboot" is a very specific region of Canada and it's not either of my provinces. It's mostly Ontario, I think.
5. Just don't call ours states! I don't mind as much if foreigners don't know the difference between a province and a territory.
6. Canada has like 3 big cities and then everything else 😅 I grew up just outside of Vancouver, which is densely packed, and then I moved to Newfoundland. The population of the whole island part of Newfoundland is pretty much just the metropolitan region of Vancouver by itself.
7. In January of 2020 over here in Newfoundland we had "Snowmaggedon." Once in a century storm that shut down the province for 3 days in the less-dense areas, a whole week in St. John's. My husband kept the side door (more sheltered) somewhat dug out during the storm so we could get out after. We had to shovel out way around the house and dig out the front door because it was completely buried. The drifts of snow up against the front of our house was half-way up out bedroom windows on the second floor. And busing? I didn't get my driver's license growing up in BC because I was in the Vancouver area and transit was great. Then I moved to Newfoundland. There isn't a bus system in my town.
8. Bagged milk hasn't been a thing outside of Ontario & Quebec since the 80s. Mom says we still had it when I was a little girl but I don't recall ever seeing bagged milk in person.
9. In Newfoundland it probably won't snow in August. Also we get icebergs in May-July.
I think "aboot" is used in the Prairies, so Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
@@curiousoli If that's true, BC living must have worn it out of all 3 of my Saskatchewan-born grandparents.
In my area of Ontario, it took me a while to realize and hear it, but we do pronounce it more like a-boat. Usually when we are speaking quickly too.
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There are federal and provincial laws in Canada as well as in the United States. For example, health, education, natural resources and marriage fall under provincial jurisdiction.
Sure but in America the states have their own constitutions, and their own sovereignty as well.
@@StephenYuan The Canadian constitution was intentionally drafted in such a way as to avoid overlapping jurisdiction between the national and provincial level. The reason for that is simple. The first document, that outlines that division of powers, was written about two years after the end of the US Civil War and the founding fathers of Canada were pretty horrified at the idea of a national vs sub-national dispute leading to civil war. The British North America Act was crafted with the lessons of the US Civil War very fresh in everyone's mind and tried, for better or for worse, to create an alternative federal structure that would avoid such strife. Also, the colonies (soon to be provinces) negotiating the deal were loathe to give up any more power to a federal government than necessary.
As a result, Canada has no doctrine of federal primacy. In some ways, American states have greater autonomy but in other ways, Canadian provinces have far greater autonomy (because the feds literally have no legal right to legislate regarding a hell of a lot of important stuff). It's probably safer to say that in the US, the areas of jurisdiction tend to overlap more while in Canada they tend to be more distinct. It's far more common for Canadian courts to throw out parts of federal or provincial legislation as ultra vires (outside that government's jurisdiction) than it is in the US, essentially ruling that that government simply has no authority to legislate on that subject.
Marriage and divorce are a federal jurisdiction in Canada, btw. It's the formalization of marriage and the property rights stuff that is provincial. The net result is a little funny and one of the situations where federal and provincial powers interact a lot. So the feds define what a marriage is, who can have one, and how it can end. That avoids weirdness like one province refusing to recognize marriages from another. The provinces decide on how marriage ceremonies work and how all the stuff and kids gets sorted out during divorces and such.
I knew someone from Boston who was talking about the winter weather there. They thought they knew snow and cold, until they spent one winter in Calgary (Alberta, Canada.)
Even with Calgary getting periotic warm spots (Chinook winds that jump the temperature by +30C in a few hours, so from -10C to +20C) they were so surprised by actual cold and snow.
A few times, for many days or weeks long, it will stay at -20C or even -30C. At times there will be multiple days of -38C in the day and -45C at night.
And snow. A foot of snow is a light day. 6 feet of snowfall (in just 1-3 days) is a "few times per winter" event.
Snow starts in late October, by November it is staying around without breaks. Snow lasts until April or May.
Calgary actually usually doesn't get that much snow compared to some other Canadian and some
American cities, it just had such a large window of the year it can happen. It's not often there will be snow excess of a foot in one storm. What does happen is seemingly nonstop snow for days that doesn't accumulate very quickly and a week or two of -20 in an otherwise very erratic cycle of freezing and thawing throughout the rest of the winter. Usually permanent ground covering snow starts in mid to late November and ends around the beginning of March and anything outside of that window melts quickly. This year we had totally bare ground by just before valentines day because January was so nice as it often can be.
4:11 We do not have 51 states, just 50 currently. There has been talk about Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state. Washington is a state on the west coast. Washington, D.C. is a district, not a state. It's between Maryland and Virginia.
the weather in Canada is similar to the weather in central Russia, and we also have bagged milk :)
Recently moved to Canada from Hong Kong and just discovered this channel, I'd like to watch the differences between US and Canada but Lauren and Christina are so cool, wanna you guys could do a Lauren (UK) vs Christina (US) vs Sydney (Canada) one day? can't wait to see it
Actually bagged milk is new to me as well, I have some in my fridge now, actually, I should have bought that milk bottle someday
I had never heard of or seen bagged milk before. Bag in box wine is popular in places because you drink what you need and it automatically seals up from air and lasts longer. It was a bit confusing with temperature comments (-40 to 40 degrees) because we have Fahrenheit measurement, and it is rarely converted to Celsius. I always need to recalibrate temps and speeds when talking to my sisters in Australia. When traveling to Canada in the past I was stunned when I revisited the same city where it was sunny and warm in summer, but I came back and it was freezing, polar weather. Totally like it was a different city. My experience meeting Canadian people was also always positive.
I never realized we say bag differently. It was nice to see some new comparisons besides bagged milk and aboot
Milk in a bag is only, ONLY in Eastern Canada; on the West Coast we use proper containers.
And yet, the Canadian girl did mention being from BC.
"proper" containers? You may not have meant it this way but that sort of makes it sound like there is something "improper" or "wrong" about bags. Bags work great! :-)
@@louisd.8928 BC had it for a while, then stopped. (And we don't say "aboot" -maybe back East.)
Chistiana looks like elite web series character.
I’m american and when i was in elementary school, I remember having milk in a bag or a square plastic pouch. But idk if they still have them anymore in schools.
When I was living in PA, we bought bagged milk from dairy farms. SO Good!
Hehe, Canada is just like russian syberia. Similar weather and seasons) And sentence about "better walk than wait bus and freezing" so russian. Of course, this applies specifically to winter. Because in summer, in many regions we also have from 30 to 40 degrees Celsius.
Much love to canadians and americans from russians.
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Jaja, I love Christina's reaction to the toonie and the loonie at 3:06. her sound priceless ^_^
I live in Vancouver BC and haven't seen bagged milk since the early 90's
I'm living for these series.
I'm living because I exist
I'm sorry Sydney but once again, when you were introducing yourself, hello I'm Sydney and it'll remind me of Australia 😂
Well did you know Sydney is not the Capital of Australia
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 The capital is Canberra
I moved to the desert and the first snow I ever experienced I made my hubby grill steaks. It was awesome and we had wood delivered and it was basically a whole tree ( 2 cords) and I had to stack and load up the shack alone with coyotes circling and it was a experienced for sure. Not bad but NOT good
Wanna make sure one day i will set my foot on these two countries especially on the snow! 💜 From Malaysian Borneo.
-Canadian accents vary from place to place. Someone from BC is going to sound different from someone from NB.
-Bagged milk was invented by a father of several children who was concerned about storage space in the fridge. It's easy to stack and you go through them quickly, so the milk doesn't have time to spoil. Bagged milk is still very much in use.
-The reason for Canada's smaller population is because a large percentage of Canada's landmass is considered uninhabitable. Of course, there are always people who make do like the Inuit, but such a lifestyle is definitely not suited for just anyone.
-The weather, too, will vary depending on where you are. Sydney lives in the mountains, so obviously she'll experience colder temperatures than, say, someone who lives in the Maritimes.
The more Canadians and Americans make videos to convince me they aren't the same, the more I believe they are the same. The differences are ridiculous. We even have more differences in my country from different regions than they have from 2 different countries lol
LOL They have to do it to make the Canadians feel better. They hate being mistaken for Americans (understandably but it is technically true considering the whole continent)
@@jross4622 Yes, I have noticed that. Canadians sometimes create weird stuff just in order to differentiate themselves from Americans. EH is a good example.
@@mathlover4994 Ça dépend on vient d'où. If you can understand this sentence, you see that, as a child, movies and kid's shows were not from the States. So, the difference is larger.
@@anoukbellemare8530 Yes, but the vast majority of Anglophone Canadians, who are the majority in Canada, do not speak French.
@@mathlover4994 do you honestly think Canadians sat down to come up with a cunning linguistic difference and then disseminated it just to be less American?
Wow! Snow in April. I'm from coastal BC, the same province as Sydney. I was planting my garden in late March last year. I knew it was colder longer in the Rockies, but I didn't know it was long. Brrr.😉
From Minnesota it can happen here too.
@@LJBSullivan I'm about a three Hour drive North of Vancouver. We get ridiculous amounts of rain and usually when the temperature isn't pleasant, but still generally above freezing. In terms of days with snow on the ground, one to three days in a season. Each has it's challenges and benefits I suppose.😉
I lived in Connecticut for 17 years and Indiana for the past seven and I can attest that the weather also varies greatly. Also we would get 5 feet of snow in October and we would still be getting snow April 1 pretty much every single year in both areas that I lived in.
I would suggest that the states can be grouped into regions that are similar enough.
An interesting point. Regional differences across the country may be larger than from state to state in each region. There are so exceptions, though. In my experience, Vermont and New Hampshire (right next to each other) are similar geographically, but they are very different politically and culturally. West Virginia and Maryland share a border but they are very different in pretty much every way (except for the Maryland counties right along the border). Differences in geography, immigration, urbanization, etc., can make states different even if they are right next to each other or in the same region.
Wow. -50 degrees? Insane. In Indonesia, if the temperature goes to 10 degrees, maybe people would call it the end of the world.
finding out Christina is from Massachusetts also, has made my day
this spring, i had some snow left in the middle of may (northern sweden).
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Surprised they didnt mention anything about scaling systems lol. miles,pounds,oz,feet,inch to kilometers,kilos,grams, centimeters etc. Definitely a subject to talk about. personally I think the imperial system sucks :)
because the metric system isn't solely Canadian. This is specific to each country comparison video. Almost the entire world uses metric. Imperial and Fahrenheit are actually European systems of measurement, weight, and temperature before Europe ditched it.
In the US, they do have a stretch of freeway with metric system on the roads. It's in the state of Arizona.
The metric system is way more efficient (a good quality in measurements) but the Imperial system is much more fun linguistically.
The Canadians haven't completely done away with the imperial system, and we Americans use metric fairly often. I've worked places where lengths were usually measured in millimeters, bolts on cars (including American cars) are typically in millimeters, our drink bottles are often in liters, engine displacements are in liters, pharmaceutical doses are in milligrams, etc. Some of the measurements aren't commonly used, like degrees Celsius, but most Americans are somewhat familiar with a few of the units. A lot of countries use a mix of systems so it seems disingenuous to me to say we use the imperial system while virtually every other country uses the metric system.
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In 1959 the inch was redefined to be based on the metre (1" = 0.0254m *exactly)* and the pound was redefined to be based on the gramme (1 lb = 453.59237g *exactly)* so technically imperial measures are actually metric measures.
Nope, spent all my life here in Canada and still not used to winter hahaha..... I mean I love December to January here, but the winter starting February to April is dreadful xD
I'm in southern Michigan and by the beginning of March, I am ready for winter to GO AWAY.
I grew up in northern Minnesota. Apparently we say "bag" like Canadians. No bagged milk in MN, but I did see it in Winnipeg (closest big Canadian city to us). I was disturbed by the fact that I identified more with the Canadian. I guess it just has to do with the vast cultural differences within the US. And also that the differences between the US and Canada are noticeable but still minor.
In Colombia milk is in bags too.
I have always though that if something bad is happening in Europe, I'm going for Canada as an alternative. :D As a Swede I have heard that it is the most simular country to live in for us Swedes. And my grandpa has a cousin there too. So some "connection" thou.. And most people in Sweden are pretty good at English(some of us is even studying French too).
That's false, Denmark, Norway and Finland are much closer to Sweden than Canada is. Canada is extremely similar to the USA, if you claim Canada and Sweden are similar than by default the USA is also similar to Sweden (which it isn't).
@@franknwogu4911 if something bad happens to Europe he/she will go to Canada... Denmark, Norway, Finland are in Europe.
@@gio7799 I've read that
@@franknwogu4911 Canada is more similar to Europe than the US is even if Canada is also similar to the US. There are different aspects. Canada has an insurance/healthcare system that's similar to European systems like for ex the Swedish system. There are other things that's similar to Sweden like the climate, business etc
@@ellenolsson3703 Ok bruh, even though we have the same sports, language, religion, holidays, hobbies, architecture and entertainment Canada is more similar to Europe because healthcare.
Fact is, most Canadians live in areas that are warmer than Massachusetts.
I can attest to that.
Point Pelee in Ontario is mainland Canada's southernmost point and it's further south than Massachusetts. In fact, it sits on the same latitude as Barcelona, Spain.
I live in Northern AZ, and I feel the extreme temp changes.
Bagged milk started with the conversion from imperial to metric as it was easier to quickly retool to one litre bags than retool the jugs and cartons, however it was promoted as being more environmentally friendly as the bags occupied far less landfill space. You won't see bagged milk in say Alberta for about forty years now but it's still common in Ontario. One thing that people liked about bagged milk was freezing them till they were needed, though this may be possible with jugs and cartons, it was just more common to do so with bagged milk.
Canadians are closer to Europeans in their way of life.
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We are related to them( mostly everyone)
Not in New York. It really depends upon where in America and where in Canada you are thinking of.
so how are they closer to europeans in their way of life
As a Canadian, I'm going to have to dissagree with you 100%. We share a trans-continental border with the USA, it makes literally no sense that we would be closer to European culture when both the USA and Canada were seeded from the same colonists, at the same time, for essentially the same reasons. USA and Canada have their differences, but those are almost entirely political. Our culture and social contexts are nearly identical.
I'm from Ottawa and I think we must have more of an American influence here because some of Sydney's pronunciations sound odd to me. Like "about". I definitely pronounce it like they do in the States.
How is life in general in Ottawa please? Planning to go study there. Thanks. 😊
nope. Sydney is pronouncing these words with an American accent. Typically Canadians say about with a short Scottish, back of the throat "out" sound that doesn't really exist in the USA, instead of the american "ow" sound (which Lindsay seems to use). Here is one of many examples of the Canadian "ou" sound: th-cam.com/video/PwI5z29BAjQ/w-d-xo.html In an earlier video, Sidney threw me off with her "sorry", as well.... Canadians typically have a hard "O" sound, compared the American soft "O".
@@hasnibrahiti6970 Hi. Ottawa is really just a quiet government town of about a million people. A lot of people say it is boring but it really depends what you like to do. There are lots of bike paths and you can go hiking in the nearby Gatineau hills. And there's a decent restaurant and bar scene. Not too many clubs though. There are a number of festivals throughout the year and the city is pretty multi-cultural. We're a couple of hours drive to Montreal or even New York state. About 4 hours drive to Toronto. Winters can be pretty brutal but you'll be ok with the right clothing. And we get a decent amount of warm weather. About 5 months where it's warm or even hot. And a few months where it is cool but not super cold. Hope this helps.
@@kontiuka thank you so much! I'm more of an introvert so I'll deal with the lack of attraction. 😅 It's nature and people who fascinates me more. And the lifestyle too. 🙏🏼
The difference is long vs. short enunciation... aside from that, it's not really different, but Americans don't hear our pronunciation right because it's quicker.
I will say we’ve added a little color to our money but eventually we should transition to polymer notes with a better res presentation in figures on the bills themselves.
Bagged milk is definitely still popular in some parts of Canada (Ontario & Nova Scotia for sure).
i think some in New England feel closer to Ontario than to Alabama.
The biggest difference I found during my visit to Canada is that most shops there close at 5 PM and all day on Sundays, even larger stores and in big cities. In America, all larger stores are pretty much open 7 days a week, usually until 9PM or so. Only smaller shops close early.
I don't know where you went but that's definitely not true in Ontario
It hasn't been that way in 25 years, except some small communities
@@jacobm6274 I have been to Vancouver and Calgary. Both were like that
@@chadfalardeau5396 It is in Vancouver.
@@guyklc When did you visit - during the 'shut down' period early in the pandemic? Stores are typically open 7 days/week and usually until 9 or 10 PM.
in Washington State it snows more in the mountain areas than it does in the city. it rarely snows and rarely gets cold snaps in Seattle during winter time it just gets cold.
We still use bagged milk in Ontario. Alcohol and beer has been sold in corner stores(now called depanneurs) in Quebec since I was a child and I'm 75.
Having travelled through both countries, I sort of have the impression that your judgement depends on whether you want to focus on the things that are very similar or on those that are quite different. The glass ist half full or half empty.
Bagged milk is so common in India.
The weather in the US is weird. In some places you will die of a heat stroke, other places like Minnesota and Alaska you could die near instantly from hypothermia. The temperatures range from anywhere in the US around 120 to -50 degrees Fahrenheit, that’s not including windchill or humidity.
I have a friend from Wisconsin and she says some words differently. She says beg (bag) too.
In Massachusetts we've also had blizzards in April! Two examples are the blizzards of 1978 and 1997.
in canada its every spring
4:11 The US only has 50 states
Maybe Puerto Rico
@@blakesteenrod4765 Alaska and Hawaii
@@blakesteenrod4765 puerto rico is a territory, not a state
@@ixretrooo I know that, but they might’ve used PR as a state
@@mar754 Alaska is the 49th state and Hawaii is the 50th state, there is only 50 US states
My elementary school in Upstate NY had bagged milk for a year or two in the early 90s.
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