Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Canada can't find its own Olympics

Because most of you reading this blog are Americans, I'll assume you have no clue where the 2010 Winter Olympics are going to be. They're going to be in Vancouver.

But don't worry my stupid fellow Americans, the Canadians aren't much better than us when posed with the same question.

in June, the federal government commissioned Decima Research to ask this unaided question to Canadians: “Can you please tell me where the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held in the year 2010?”

And the results, outside of British Columbia where Vancouver is located, were hilarious.

In Alberta 68% of people knew the answer was Vancouver, in Saskatchewan/Manitoba it was 64%, in Ontario it was 60%, in the Atlantic Provinces it was 50%, and it was an unreal 43% in Quebec.

Needless to say the government wasn't pleased about that and ordered a new report that was just recently done. It showed a slight bump in the numbers, but the fact remains that an awful lot of Eastern Canada seems to have no clue that the 2010 Olympics are happening in their own country.

I guess it could worse. According to a survey done in Taiwan (which I realize is a separate country from China, but China likes to impose its will there), 44% of the Taiwanese have no clue that the 2008 Olympics are happening in China.

And this of course means two important things. One, that there are uninformed people all over the world, not just in America. And two, that China needs to increase the beatings in Taiwan.

-WCK

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

And the sad thing is, Quebec is home to some of the best short-track speed skating athletes in the world, a sport that is one of Canada's winter specialties. C'est la vie!

Eric (Extra P.) said...

I think it means that people don't give a shit about the Olympics until NBC starts cranking out promos. Then, all of a sudden, it's "Oh, yeah... totally psyched about the Olympics, man".

the wolf said...

So...not knowing where the Olympics are going to be held = poor knowledge of geography?

Bobby Big Wheel said...

Yeah, but if you hadn't thrown in the curveball about the Paralympic Games I'm sure the numbers would be higher.

BM said...

One thing about Canada: east coaster's don't care about the west, and westerners hate Ontario and Quebec. Why? Montreal is the most fun city in Canada (if not North America), Toronto is the Centre of the Universe, and we HATE hippies.

100% Injury Rate said...

Well, I meant it as hopefully most Canadians know they have the Olympics, but aren't sure where it is. That's sort of geography.

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And the sad thing is, Quebec is home to some of the best short-track speed skating athletes in the world, a sport that is one of Canada's winter specialties. C'est la vie!

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