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Spaghetti Sauce

I watched the video "Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti Sauce" recently. There were some really good points he touched on, however the main point and the reason he gave this speech was about how people are diverse. A quote from this speech was "in embracing our diversity of human beings we will find a sure way to true happiness". This quote means that we are all different and we should not try to find the perfect thing or way to act to suit every person, but the perfect ways and things to suit different people that makes the individuals happy. That was the main point of his entire speech. The analogies that he made really drove his point and helped make connections to things that are relative in peoples lives. One really good analogy that Gladwell made "There is no perfect Pepsi, just perfect Pepsi's". This is really helping his point by saying that there is no universal person and showing people that there is tremendous difference in people and what satisfies us. Another really good analogy was the test that Howard Markowiz did with spaghetti sauce. He gave people 45 different kinds of spaghetti sauce and what he found was really quite astonishing. He broke the test groups up into three main categories of sauce: plain, spicy, and chunky. At the time he did this test there was no chunky spaghetti sauce on the market; the reason it wasn't on the market is because there was no market for it. This means that a large portion of the United States liked extra chunky sauce but they didn't know it. His point being that people don't know what they want. I think that people just conform to the way things are done. For instance, if you grew up with spicy sauce you might think that is what you like so once you move out and start buying your own sauce you may choose spicy because that is what you "like". But the truth is, you don't know what you like, you might try a different sauce and it might change your mind. The entire speech was an analogy to the diversity of human beings. I think that this speech was a very good message about embracing the differences in our world.

Fucking Eh!

What country is founded on maple syrup, hockey and beaver fur? What country watches a T.V show about brothers who drink beer and talk about nothing, but can teach you how to get a free case of beer out of an empty bottle and a baby mouse. We enjoy setting records for the longest hockey game marathon ever (240hrs). We produce the best hockey players on the planet. Our cultural diversity sculpts us into a very strong and structured society that breaks away from the generic stereotypes. Our diverse landscape has giant mountains and vast prairies, majestic forests and never ending coasts. Our resources range from fishing, forestry, farming and mining. We are undoubtedly the greatest nation on the planet, with all of our athletes, musicians, actors, politicians and great minds. We are Canadians and this is Canada.