Eight Lives Left

I’m having to take several hours of diversity training at my job. One section contains an entire book that breaks down different countries, each in its own chapter. So far it’s been an exercise in stereotypes, and thus sort of gross, but this paragraph about Canadian manners and taboos did have me in stitches:

Canada is a very open society, exercising maximum social tolerance. There are consequently few taboos apart from boasting and other forms of ostentation. Canadians possess easy social graces—they are the world’s best cocktail partiers! They invite people readily for supper in their homes, where old-fashioned hospitality shows no bounds. Clothing on most occasions is comfortable and tasteful rather than snazzy.

So there you go. Canadians are the must-have group for cocktail parties.

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