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[mercat]

My up-to-date info on different issues is coming from international media (BBC). It's still rather frustrating that other countries are aware and to some extent involved (discussion, at the very least) in ours and we are so oblivious to others'. I cannot even name the president of Poland! Not even the one I met, and that was almost ten years ago. Mexico? Nothing. Canada? Nothing. England... Queen Elizabeth? ;P

This makes me feel like a failure in regards to my "global citizen" standing.

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[mercat.livejournal.com]

Oh true, I did know Tony Blair... but (showing my lack of foreign study, clearly) I thought he was the guy everyone loved?

By the way, how politically attached is Canada to England? I've been curious about all that sort of thing since I took a history class on the world empires and the modern age. (That and Australia and NZ and everything.)

[mister-sable.livejournal.com]

It's generally considered Tony Blair is a puppet of Bush, who's a puppet of Cheney, who's acting only in the interest of profit for Halliburton Oil.

I think we 'declared our independence' form Britain in 1982 and haven't had much to do with them since (We haven't really had much to do with them since the 50's, really) - though there's always a crowd when the Queen comes to visit. That may just be because, as Paul "Due South" Gross says, "She has quite a rack!" J/K

Australia has even less to do with England than we do, and NZ far less than them.

That's speaking of the Monarchy, which is non-political. Politically, speaking, they're messed up in Jolly Ol' England and we've never had much to say about their affairs since we had to save them from the Nazis.

For the record, my Gran'pa was in the British Royal Air Force during WWII and my Mom was born near London.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Cool beans. :D