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See to me, England was nothing more than a big fuckin' American state, like North Dakota, or Canada.
— Stevo
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker dismisses England by treating it as just another American state, then includes Canada in the same list. That extra geographical muddle sharpens the joke. The confident comparison reveals a casually narrow perspective that makes countries seem interchangeable without recognizing the distinctions between them.
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