Eric's country

"Many people think of my country as a great big, frozen land of ice up north, with Eskimos and red-coated policemen but it's obviously a very different country from that. It's a bilingual country, 40% of the population has French as mother tongue and it has a very dispersed population, but 90% of it lives in a small ribbon of land just 90 kilometer from the US border. In fact, probably one of the biggest concerns we have is the effect of US domination on our unique culture, because of TV, sports and such like. I think many of us have an inferiority complex relative to the US. Here in Europe, a lot of the time people think we're American. It's annoying."