SOME PEOPLE SAY CANADA SUCKS, 10 REASON WHY IS NOT TRUE. CANADA IS THE BEST!!

THIS IS JUST ONE OF THEME!!

(CNN) - Who would not expect great things from the world's second largest land mass?

This is a nation that accumulates enough prosperity, natural beauty and ingenious talent to serve a hundred times larger population.

But Canada is more than enough room, good roads, respectable banks, promotional posters Police on horseback, sweet views of Niagara Falls and tired frenzy of the media about the controversial mayor who admitted smoking crack.

This country could really boast of all the things that really sets it apart.

Not that you will ever do.

Modesty is one of the most adorable Canadian virtues, along with these 10 national assets that actually make Canada special.

1. Apologize

Not so easy to get a simple apology in most of the world.

When you push in India. When you step on the foot in Greece. When you do not open the door to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

That's just part of the unrepentant life.

In Canada, apologies always happen; the "forgiveness" coming from all sides, like a swarm of killer bees affable.

Apologies are issued not only for a few minor setbacks, but actually have the nerve to be on the receiving end of one.

A survey by the University of Queen titled "Sorry ... I'm Canadian," found that 90% of Canadian children, aged 18 to 25 years will apologize immediately if a stranger bumps into them.

But while it may be true that some of the ugliest fights in Canada have caused over who feel it more, travelers should be wary of such subtleties, another Canadian apologist says, "Sometimes, we are actually expressing our sympathy for your weaknesses ".


2. Lakes and "houses"

Canada has more lakes than any other country: about 3 million.

Only the province of Ontario contains about one third of the world's freshwater, distributed in 250,000 lakes.

No wonder that "going to the lake" is more than a national favorite phrase.

It is the sacred version of Canada to flee the territory, but with cabins equipped with Muskoka chairs, canoes Kevlar and conflict between Gordon Lightfoot or listen to the sounds of the loons.

Recently, the main district of lakes Ontario, Muskoka, was appointed by National Geographic Traveler as the premier destination for summer travel, worldwide.

Well, yes, huh? There is beauty there.


3. substitute locations where movies are filmed

Even if you've never set foot in Vancouver, Halifax or the handful of cities between them frequently you've been seeing without knowing it.

Why?

Because Hollywood loves making movies in Canada-large films-while passed the stage as the city of New York, Wyoming, ancient Persia, the bow of the most heinous transatlantic history ...

Basically anywhere else except Canada.

If you've seen "The Incredible Hulk", have you visited the Yonge Street Toronto, at least through a film.

"Brokeback Mountain"? That's not the western United States, mate. It is the country of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta.

"Cloak"? You're not in Kansas, Dorothy. You are in Winnipeg.

¿ "Twilight"? Vancouver.

¿ "Blades of Glory"? Montreal.

¿ "Titanic"? Much of the movie was filmed off the coast of Halifax.

And where in the world was hut Morgan Freeman in "Unforgiven"? Right on the road from Calgary, in the Drumheller Valley; a field adorned by a lunar landscape that has also gone through Egypt, Persia, Armenia and eastern Africa in several film and television productions.


4. Air

In a recent study by the National Air Quality by the World Health Organization, Canada placed third for having the cleanest air on the planet.

Until the first and second place (Estonia and Mauritius) appear in the "better elsewhere" CNN Travel, we encourage you to give you a break in Canadian cities, which range on average have relatively unpolluted amount of 13 micrograms of PM10 per square meter.


5. Humor

Canadians are hilarious, sometimes even intentionally so as confirmed during the years a disproportionate number of heavyweights in the comedy such as Jim Carrey, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Aykroyd, Seth Rogen, Mike Myers, Phil Hartman, Andrea Martin, Michael Cera, Leslie Nielsen and many others.

What makes Canadians are so funny?

This has led to the realization of sociological studies, none of which are amusing at all.

But even if you've never seen SCTV, you can not think of a single member of "The Kids in the Hall" and did not know that SNL was created and produced by a Canadian, or that the "Just for Laughs" festival is the festival of comedy largest in the world, or the funniest scene ever filmed a movie (the scene! "serpentine" of the 1979 film "the in-Laws") was directed by a guy from Edmonton, you know this:

If there is something that Canadians accumulate perfectly at home or abroad, regardless of why it is laughter.


6. Chocolates

Only a few giant corporations mass produce chocolate bars for the world market; but not always with the same product under that recognized packaging.

"The Canadian chocolate is higher in fat and a higher particle size," said an expert in chocolate Hershey newspaper National Post, adding that Hershey now offers a different recipe for the most discerning palates Canadian chocolate.

"Americans tend to seek a more sandy or cheesy flavor."

That's why eating any of the local favorites Canada and Caramilk, Aero, Mr. Big, Sweet Marie hell to bars or generic in Saskatoon, is a creamy, velvety experience.

And why a KitKat elsewhere is a polyglycerol poliricinoleado, quesoso, sandy.


7. The country skiing

Sitting across the border of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Vermont would be daunting for most countries selling their own outstanding dusted.

No Canada; They boast some of the best reasons to carry your skis or snowboard a little further north.

In the west, it is Lake Louise, placed right in the middle of the beautiful Banff National Park, and a series of dusty shelters in eastern British Columbia. Whistler Blackcomb is one of the leading resorts worldwide that received the approval of "Best in North America" in SKI Magazine last year.

In the East, Quebec is happy with Lauretianos make beer commercial where après-ski needs no translation.

¿Heli-skiing? All this began in the Canadian Bugaboo, which remains one of the best places to do it.


8. National Brand

No national symbol is more ubiquitous than leaf maple tree in Canada.

From Newfoundland to Victoria, it is everywhere where you turn around and see; a proud and ruthless reminder of where you are. Not in the United States. Not in Australia. Not in Nigeria. Canada.

More obsessive activity sheet occurs abroad, where generations of backpackers carry the Canadian flag and are famous for embroidery patches maple leaves their bags for everyone, out, are clear about who they are.

No Americans. No Germans. No rarotonganenses. Canadians. You see the road? Canadians.

"No other country in the world seems to have the same need to self-identify" places a traveler from a country not revealed.


9. Food when you're traveling on the road

Road trips have everything to do with food.

At least in places like Alberta and Manitoba, where nothing raises an appetite like driving sedentary way some of the longer roads known to non-Australian humanity with nothing to do but count stations Petro-Canada; and parking in places where they sell the best comfort of any food stall rest.

Tim Hortons. Harvey's. Swiss Chalet ...

If you do not know these names, it's time to look beyond the Golden Arches.

You can eat McNuggets anywhere.

Nothing says gustatory bliss on the Trans-Canada Highway as peameal & a bacon cheeseburger bacon naturally smoked, or half a chicken on a plate with salsa Chalet, or a box of Timbits with a double-double coffee.

Better take a cake of butter and a Nanaimo bar, too. It is a very long way from Red Deer to Flin Flon.


10. Terms and phrases adorable

While it may cost you find a real local, using a touch one to tell someone "Hoser" or been told to "get the hell" Canadians should you be called "toonies" their currencies of two dollars, "Two-four "the cases of beer and napkins" serviettes "when special guests.

Nowhere in the world you will hear you say "ring rat" to the homeless in ice arenas.

Or you "den gears" if you do something stupid.

Or you ask, "What you pay for hydro"?

O Get a reminder that "you look the gitch" If your girdle is too loose.

Enough it has been said.