I don't know why, but I didn't find the article thing funny at all. I just sounded like a bunch of bragging to me, and making the US look like idiots - which isn't right in my opinion. Seems that's all Mercer ever does. It gets old real fast. I also watched that "Talking to Americans" show a while back and I didn't enjoy it at all, as again, it just made the US look stupid. I think that particular show was all set up, or mostly set up anyway. Obviously both the article and the show I'm referring to were meant to be humorous (to Canadians), and not taken the wrong way but I just don't see the humour in it anymore. Canada and the US are constantly (indirectly) making fun of one another and bragging about how one country is better than the other, when really, we're all people and probably have a lot of similarities. As far as the white house being pink at one point in time, I've heard that was a myth. And honestly, so what if the US doesn't learn as much about other countries as Canada does? How does Canada even know how much the US learns about other countries? We don't. Well, I don't anyway. I don't think that makes us any better than they (I don't think that's what Jess was insinuating anyway, but some Canadians do feel that that fact makes us better than the US.). This is all jsut my opinion and not intended to offend anyone. Perhaps I'm looking into the article too deeply, but these sorts of things have been bothering me lately for some reason.