Jack,

You might be careful about how you use "we." A well travelled Canadian from a metropolitan area who has hung out with English folks might recognize accents and/or know a lot about the world, but can you say the same for a Newfie or someone from the middle of Manitoba without the same experience? Furthermore, and i don't mean this as an attack, my experience is that there is a difference between actually knowing more than other folks and assuming that you do. I have met a lot (not all) of Europeans and Canadians who think that they are very wise and worldly and who in fact were amusing in their naivete.