I appreciate that.
Some people would say it's a different country. Some of the states in the United States are so different from each other, but we're all in the United States. One of the ways I would put this is that there are differences but the similarities are bigger than the differences. There are subcultural differences within Canada and within the United States, regionally, racial-ethnically, and socio-economically. Obviously, there are differences and variations. A big part of my work and my colleagues' work—and we work in multi-racial and multi-ethnic environments all the time—is to take into account in our pedagogy or in our work that there are differences. You can't just make blanket statements as if everybody has the same life experience or the same belief systems around gender, for example. It's not fair and it's not accurate. I think the similarities are much more profound than the differences.
We're talking about patriarchal cultures, male-dominated cultures, and they have certain things in common. Some societies are further ahead than others in addressing efforts to achieve gender equity, obviously, and some are not as far ahead. They're all in the same general path, if you will. I shouldn't say it like that, it's more complicated. I've spent a lot of time in Canada and a lot of time obviously in the States. I've travelled a lot in Europe, in Australia, and in parts of Africa. I can't say that I have complete, comprehensive, personal experience in all the different cultural contexts.