Watching the first ep of season 11 of the Canadian show Heartland. This show is such a comfort watch for me. For awhile now the majority of the shows I watch are Asian dramas so it is a bit shocking to see facial lines, pores and even stubble. It reminds me of when decades ago I first started watching British shows after only watching American ones.

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    I used to watch that show. I think I got up to season 6 or 7 and then the latest season wasn’t available on Netflix so I stopped watching. It was such a heartwarming show and Canada looks so beautiful.

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      I dont know why it always surprises me when I run into fans of it.
      The scenery is so beautiful as are the animals. I also like looking at the western outfits and homes. But my favorite part is, besides lots of women characters, all the different relationships that have formed.
      Netflix has it up to season 11 if you ever want to try it again.

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        I might pick it back up sometime although I don’t remember where I left off. The relationships were really sweet. I really liked the friendship between the grandpa and the neighbor girl. I remember she was always trying to get him to take better care of his health. Did her efforts pay off? Is grandpa still alive?

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    Ah! I binge watched the first 9 or 10 seasons of this a couple of summers ago! That was a few months before I discovered K-dramas. Enjoyed it 🙂

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    What happened when you first started watching British shows?

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      Lol, worded that weird. But British shows and some movies have leads that might be over a size zero and be over the age of 30. They do not all have perfect teeth and so on.
      I remember when I discovered As Time Goes By and Keeping Up Appearances and was surprised that the leads had to all be over their 50s. Patricia Rutledge did great physical comedy and she was 60 or so.

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        I understood perfectly! Ok, got it.

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        British comedy is the best. It’s much better than American comedy in my opinion. More sarcasm, more word play, and a nice combination of dirty and cerebral humour. American humour tends to allow the dirty and the vulgar overpower the intellectual for the most part).

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          My brit coms are very outdated, lol. I haven’t kept up with them. The last American comedies I last was into were ABC’s sitcoms like The Middle, The Goldbergs and so on though haven’t kept up the last couple years.

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          I don’t care for British comedy. I have never found it funny. I do like some of their dramas though.

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    “stubble” that made me laugh out loud! Thank you!

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    Are you Canadian?! Heartland is a CBC staple and I think I may have watched some of the first season years and years ago.

    I almost never watch North American shows now. I think the last show I really sat down and watched was The Good Wife (which is actually really really good). After finishing TGW last summer, I tried watching The Good Fight (sequel of The Good Wife) but I couldn’t get into it at all.

    I love all of the European shows even now, although I have a terrible time figuring out what to watch. In December, I watched a great Norwegian show called Skam (which means “Shame”). If you’re ever interested, the third season is great.

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      Nope, I’m American. This made me laugh a bit cause I recently had a discussion with @13infamyss about how we do not take our shoes of on entering a house and how Canadians do. One of us was shocked and the other grossed out lol.

      I will have to look up Skam. I dont think I’ve ever watched a Norwegian show.

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        Hmmm, do Americans not take off their shoes upon entering? I didn’t know that. In fact, I didn’t even know most Canadians do remove their shoes! I don’t think I’ve ever notice in any case, in that I thought my family took of their shoes for cultural reasons. My cousins in America, who are also Pakistani, also remove their shoes upon entering houses.

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          Where are you from Maq?

          I’ve been researching a whole lot of this “Canadian-taking off shoes” since my discussion with Beverly, and online says it’s become our custom because we get snow more than half of the year (in where I live it’s almost 10/12), and you don’t want your muddy winter boots all over your house. In my case, it’s close to second nature that I never questioned why we do it. We just do! 😬 I asked my fiancé’s opinion on this and since he knows friends and family in the US, he agreed that it’s uncommon for most American households to do this. He could enter someone’s house with shoes on in the US. But he’s never been in a Canadian household where it was okay to have shoes on.

          http://www.livingabroadincanada.com/2010/01/06/living-in-canada-take-your-shoes-off/

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            I’m from Canada! I was born in the States and spent the first bit of my life there, but we moved north when I was about 5.

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          Whenever I watch a k-drama and they remove their shoes I always think, “Dang your entire outfit is ruined now.” Lol. I don’t keep my shoes on in the house if I’m not going back out but I don’t remove them at the door. I do have some friends that remove their shoes at the door.

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            Hmmm, that’s very interesting actually! Removing shoes at the door is like second nature for me at this point, but, strictly speaking, it’s not always the most efficient course of action.

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        It would be interesting to know how else we differ! I searched on YT and the videos I saw are pretty much stereotypes of our differences. Not very much insightful to me. Here’s one example https://youtu.be/3liA1GLKbW4

        I guess we’ll never know until a topic is brought up again and we get a different perspective culture-wise! 😬

        But two things that always stump me are your guys use of Fahrenheit and miles vs our Celsius and kilometres!

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          The Celsius, kilometer, and centimeters is like a different language that I have to use Google translate for. Then of course if watching or reading something from the UK I have to remember what a stone is.
          A bag of milk? And did he say one of those little bags cost 4 dollars?

          Definitely have the thought that Canadians are polite though makes me sad that Americans would be thought of as rude. I have heard from some people from other countries that Americans do seem loud when they visit though usually friendly, lol.

          I love seeing the cultural differences.

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            Oh, and I lock my doors.

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            He said quite a lot of subjective stuff which find pretty common from the YT videos I have seen.

            “Canadians more polite” is def subjective. We all have different personalities. But I do agree that we tend to say sorry a lot. I noticed when I’m making my way through the crowd, I’d say excuse me and sorry at the same time! Weird. I’m trying to fix that. Saying Sorry is more of a reflex to me which I guess sends wrong message sometimes; sorry but not sorry 🙃

            And we def lock our doors and have security alarms. Well maybe back in the day, this might be true, but not in this day and age.

            I’ve seen bag of milk being sold but I’m not too familiar with it. It’s not our favourite drink, so we don’t buy/look for it often!

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            @13infamyss I’m a huge fan of the Ken Sullivan adaptation of Anne of Green Gables and I loved the way Gilbert Blythe (Jonathan Crombie) said “sorry” and of course “about”.

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          Units of measurement are used inconsistently in my home. My parents were raised in a Commonwealth country, but they also spent over a decade in the States, so my parents using metric units for some things and imperial units for others. For example, my dad is more comfortable expressing distances and speeds using miles rather kilometers. On the other hand, my parents are very happy to use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit.

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            So you are probably conversant in both. I find that so interesting when people live some where for a long time and pick up certain elements of that culture to take with them when they move.

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            I have some basic sense of what a mile is for instance or how to reason in miles/hour. But if you ever asked me to tell you what the temperature outside is in Fahrenheit, I’d be left flummoxed.

            I find it interesting as well. My parents have a lot of weird tics and habits which they’ve developed as a result of moving between countries. I know other people are like this as well, and I always wonder how they get new things which they’ve imbibed from different cultures to cohere together and whether they experience dissonance. It wouldn’t surprise me, for instance, if adoption of new mores, habits, and beliefs precipitated a kind of generalized Diderot effect (probably something worth looking up one day when I have more time).

            Some of the most interesting conversations I’ve ever had involve people from other countries and cultures sharing their perspective about aspects of Canadian, Western, or Pakistani culture.

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      I’ve never watched any TV shows at all since I discovered my love for Asian dramas. And that was more than a decade ago! I’m aware of what shows are airing because people at work and/or friends talk about them, but I do not have any clue what they’re talking about. 😰 But I don’t feel like I’m missing out either. It just sucks that I don’t have anybody to talk to about Asian dramas in real life. Heh. That’s why I’m very grateful for dramabeans.

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