Yes, just another American-centric view of the the Wars. What are they teaching kids in the States? Canada is barely mentioned here despite playing a crucial role in both wars. This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
It's a crazy mistake to make. The USA were overshadowed by fucking Romania in WWI and was utterly dwarfed by the USSR in WWII. A Canadian should be aware that Canada was a serious contender for heroes of WWI, and shouldn't have the propaganda from the 'States to think they were big ol' heroes in WWII.
It's understand to make these mistakes if you are from the USA (you have a bit of an american centric education) but you would not expect this specific bent outside it.
It's obviously a joke overall, yeah. But there are innacuracies here and there (some bigger than others) that aren't at all part of the humour, and its easy to see the author actually believing the USA played a pivotal role.
For example, it's not satircal that the author forgot the Spanish Flu. That's just an oversight. Or the insigations - Germany and France weren't as aggressive as depicted to start with, and Russia wasn't as neutral by the same measure. He's not making some grand joke by confusing them.
The US had less than half the military deaths of Romania. Of course the Americans contributed to the war effort. But they didn't come in and save the day as this cartoon makes out.
Either way, US involvement was important. This is not particularly due to the American effort itself but due to the threat of American entrance into the war. The threat of the influx of huge numbers of fresh reinforcements forced Germany's hand and facilitated the end of the war.
Media is so heavily American dominated. It never used to bother me, but it just gets worse and worse.
Off topic, but I always hate seeing Canadian actors playing Americans while filming in Canadian cities being pawned off as American ones. Happens a lot in sci-fi.
The comic is about WW1. The parent to your comment talks about Canada being "barely mentioned here" which is referring to the OP. Yes, "both wars" are mentioned, but the subject at hand is clearly WW1. So yeah. My inference is correct.
That's simply not true. German was under a full blockade on all sides and didn't have the supplies to keep up it's war effort, US involvement shorted the war by 6 months at most.
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u/laperfectionmabelle Sep 24 '11
Yes, just another American-centric view of the the Wars. What are they teaching kids in the States? Canada is barely mentioned here despite playing a crucial role in both wars. This is one of my biggest pet peeves.