Say, have you ever wondered about something like this?
When we mention Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, we think of the great European powers, London, Paris, World War I, World War II, and so on; when we mention Russia, we think of the fighting nation, Siberia, Vodka, nesting dolls, and things like that;
Mention Brazil and people think of football. Mention Australia and they think of kangaroos. Mention India and they think of all sorts of messy things.
And when it came to the United States, the world's only superpower, there were even more iconic impressions.
But when it came to Canada,
what came to your mind instantly?
Good environment, suitable for immigration?
Fine, that barely counted as one. But besides that?
() Did you suddenly realize that you couldn't seem to think of anything at all?
(Playing a Canada Bug card didn't count.)
Come to think of it, history textbooks seemed not to mention it either. Geography books might have brought it up in passing, and even online, it was rare to see current-affairs news about it.
Though if you insisted on searching, you could definitely find quite a bit of political and economic news.
But despite being the world's second-largest country by land area, even larger than Huaxia, if you didn't deliberately pay attention to it,
its presence really was extraordinarily faint.
So faint that when you opened a world map and looked over at North America, you saw this enormous country, yet couldn't name a single thing associated with it.
Don't believe me? Let's do a test right now. No looking anything up.
Tell me, what was Canada's capital?
See? You couldn't answer, could you?
So didn't that feel a little strange?
And that had been Fang Ran's genuine feeling. After a night of Participants being active