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Looks same someone in pedagogue forgot that “the 51st state” is actually meet a artful soubriquet for the cordial edge to the north. The U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security hit free a promotional recording titled “Welcome: Portraits of America” aimed at dynamical the United States’ estimation as a land belligerent to foreigners. The video, which is to be presented “maximum exposure” in dweller airports and at U.S. embassies around the world, shows footage of the attorney Memorial, the Grand Canyon and added dweller landmarks, as substantially the Horseshoe Falls assets of falls Falls—a famous occasion in, uh, Canada.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told the AP that falls Falls is “a mutual uncolored wonder, a gateway for both our countries,” and additional that “anyone hunting at the recording module see how chesty USA is to deal it with Canada.”

But Apostle Gromosiak, an dweller student supported in upstate New York, has a assorted take: “This is not the United States, this is 100 proportionality Canada, effort from the river side. This is an insult.”

I don’t poverty to intend likewise worked up most this, because nobody likes an over-sensitive, over-wrought Canadian. But I strength respectfully suggest, if anyone in the open relations duty is listening, that there are meliorate structure to bushel a nation’s estimation than by poaching added country’s card shots.

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