Otherwise, however, if you want to know about anything outside the boundaries of the continental United States, you're out of luck. This is the Channel 3 weather-map view of the world, the good old USA floating in space, surrounded by nothing . Since 1550 chapter does not acknowledge the existence of anything above the 49th parallel. Not a single Canadian author is worth an entry in the World Literature or Literature in English sections. No Canadian political figure rates a mention in World Politics .
Political correctness is in the eye of the beholder.
And Canadians hate to be ignored. Hate to be written out of a history we helped shape and create as much as any other people on Earth. The history of the United States itself is inextricably linked with ours. To ignore Canada is to ignore a huge piece of their own past. These are basic historical truths.