Travelling in the USA for some 10 days, and then moving to Canada for another week or so, there is one thing that has attracted my attention. In the US, all the badly paid jobs i.e employees at coffee shops, souvenir stores, etc are carried out either by latinos or blacks, and somehow you getthe impression thatthey got up very early, are tired and bored of their job and cannot make ends meet. Moving up to Canada, a much wider variety of people do these jobs. But there is a large difference. Whether they be latino, indian, caucasian, black, everyone seems to be more friendly and much more happy to do their job, and help you out in whatever they may need. I happened to hear a Michael Moore interview yesterday something that, I think, is exactly the right reason.In his own words: “Canadians have structured their societyin a different way to Americans. Their view is, we’re all Canadians, we’re all in the same boat here. If a person falls upon hard times in Canada, we should help him/her out. Here in America, we Beat Up on our poor. We want to punish them for being poor.”
I think, having been in LA recently, a city of such rich and poor extremes, that this argument Mr.Moore makes is quite valid and true. WHich is better??you decide!