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Originally Posted by hipster duck
I've argued that Ontario is a cultural island, being separated from the rest of Canada by the vast, unpopulated north and by French-speaking Quebec.
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Hey, that's my line. I thought I was the only one. Though I think the isolation is more spatial than cultural. Westerners and Atlantic types fit into southern Ontario seamlessly, you'd never know they were "different" until they told you.
It is interesting how a hundred years ago people were criss-crossing back and forth between New York and Ontario, and Michigan and Ontario, making for closer ties, but nowadays your average person in Kitchener will be on the same wavelength as someone all the way from Vancouver, while you can feel the cultural gulf between southern Ontario and places like Detroit and Buffalo the moment you cross the border.
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
On the other hand, Ontario contains about half of English Canada's population, so if it's an island, it's the "big island" like Honshu in Japan.
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That's a good analogy too.