To add to my three little words, I'd like to make a comparison between my country and yours because most ordinary Americans never think to make these kinds of comparisons and so are a bit short on insight. The United States is a centripetal union served by its myth of “one nation, under God,” indivisibly genderless, colourless, classless. Its current division into liberal Blue states and conservative Red states constitutes a national crisis drawn along lines of race, religion, class, and sexuality. Canada,

 —diana relke, Saskatoon, ON Canada, August, 8, 2006