Weeeelll...you can't really blame Canada (actually, *you* can blame Canada if you want to, it's just *me* that can't) for only caring about its own artists. Canadian culture is hugely suppressed or flattened by US culture. So much...the vast majority...of our entertainment and media is from the US. To make it as a singer, really make it, you have to go American. Same with actors/etc. And generally they don't stay very 'Canadian' after they break into the American market. A few do, but not most. Recent example: Avril Lavigne. Avril is from a little town called Napanee, half an hour away from where I lived in college...very small town, very Canadian...and I daresay most people don't know/don't remember that she's Canadian at all.

Those Canadians who STAY Canadian tend to be very kitschy...comedians mainly, it seems. That's the only type of Canadian people want to see, it seems, the goofy stereotype. If you want to make it big as a novelist, you have to go through an American publisher...that kind of thing. So I can't really fault anyone for being fiercely protective of what little we've got that hasn't been infiltrated or homogenized. It seems like once the US gets in, Canada just rolls over in that area and becomes American...very little left of the Canadian flavour.

However, me liking you and all, of course I'd like to see your masks sold up here. Honestly I don't care how many Americans sell here but I DO feel that if a lot DID, we'd lose our identity in that, too, because we have with most other things.