如果美国要求加拿大和自己合并，加拿大会同意吗？-网帖翻译-龙腾网

Mark de Haan, lives in Exeter, NH
Well as an American I can say I don’t want a merger between Canada and the United States.
Firstly this would be extremely overcomplicated, unnecessary, and would potentially cause mass unrest. Canada is a wealthy and successful nation on its own, why would it desire to join the United States? Our two countries as similar as they are, are distinct, and have separate identities. How would we as Americans accommodate Francophone Canadians, and how would we deal with an extra 34 million Canadians that are now part of the United States? We are deeply in debt, and our government is a mess. I’m sure most Canadians would rather have their peaceful, and not as grid-locked parliament.

作为美国人，我不希望美国和加拿大合并
首先，这件事情非常的复杂，而且没有必要，很有可能会造成群众骚乱。加拿大本身就是一个富裕和成功的国家，为什么会想要加入美国呢? 我们两个国家虽然相似，但又非常独特，有着不同的身份。作为美国人，我们该如何接纳说法语的加拿大人，又该如何处理多出来的3400万加拿大人? 我们已经负债累累，我们的政府一团糟。我肯定大部分加拿大人希望能有一个和睦的，而不是像美国那样陷入僵局的议会。

Secondly our own country has too many of its own problems to be worrying about. Our country is too polarized to deal with something like that. Roughly one half of the country are conservative, and certainly wouldn’t like the social-democratic attitude of most Canadians when they can’t even get along with the social-democratic attitudes of Americans already living here. Another area for concern would be the large amount of Natives living in Canada. Both our countries have done bad jobs with assisting, and integrating the Natives in both our countries, so why would we in America when we already do a bad job with them want to take in more?

其次，美国自己有太多的问题需要担心，我们国家两极分化，无法就合并的事情达成一致意见。美国差不多有一半的人都很保守，他们肯定不会喜欢大部分持社会民族主义态度的加拿大人，他们甚至和美国本土持这种观念的同胞都相处不好。另一个令人担忧的问题是生活在加拿大的大量原住民。我们两个国家在融合原住民方面做的都很差，既然如此我们为什么还要接收更多的原住民呢？
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Thirdly, I want both our countries to remain distinct. As much as our countries are similar, Canada and America are two special, and separate nations with different backstories, and history. Our ice-hockey rivalry would instantly disappear, and we would end up putting a further imbalance between our two developed nations and those of Mexico, and Central America. There are some things that are quintessentially American, and quintessentially Canadian that wouldn’t be as special anymore if we merged.

第三，我希望我们两个国家能保持不同。虽然我们两个国家有很多相似之处，但加拿大和美国是两个特殊的独立国家，有着不同的历史。如果我们合并那么我们在冰球上面就无法相互竞争了，我们两国都是发达国家，如果合并，将使我们和墨西哥及中美洲的不平衡进一步加剧。如果我们合并，一些属于加拿大和美国的独特事物就会消失。

nonymous
I’m sure you can find a few Canadians who would support this, but not very many.
When the US fought the British for independence, the Canadian colonies did not join the fight. And when the Americans achieved independence, some loyalists fled to Canada, which no doubt caused Canada to be less inclined to join the US.

我肯定你可以找到一些支持这个计划的加拿大人，但不会很多。
在美国和英国交战争取独立的时候，加拿大作为殖民地并没有参与这场战争。当美国获得独立时，一些亲英分子逃到了加拿大。这无疑使得当时的加拿大对加入美国没有什么兴趣。
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The first US constitution, the Articles of Confederation, gave Canada an option to join the US if they wanted to, but they didn’t. Maybe there was some sentiment for joining the US, but not enough to make it happen. Then in 1812, there was a war between the US and the UK. Canada, being part of the UK, was theoretically involved, although it’s not clear whether many people living in Canada considered this their fight. But the US did, and invaded Canada, and burned York (now Toronto). Every American knows from school knows that the UK burned the White House and other buildings in Washington in 1814, but for some reason, the schools discreetly fail to mention the US burning of York.

美国第一部宪法《邦联条例》给了加拿大加入美国的选择权，如果他们想要加入的话，现在已经是美国的一部分了，但他们没有这样做。或许加拿大对加入美国也有一些心动，但还不足以让其成为现实。然后在1812年，美英之间爆发了战争。作为英国的一部分，加拿大理论上也参与了这场战争，但不清楚是否很多加拿大人认为这是属于他们的战争。但美国人肯定是这样想的，他们入侵了加拿大，焚烧了约克（现在叫多伦多）。每个美国人在学校里都学过，1814年英国人焚烧了白宫和华盛顿的其他建筑物，但出于某种原因，学校没有告诉大家，美国也曾焚烧过加拿大的约克。

American conduct in Canada at this time was not well received by the ungrateful Canadians, who for some reason didn’t like having their territory invaded and their capital burnt. This really put Canada off any idea of joining the US, and ever since, the two countries have evolved separately, and people in Canada have formed a distinctive Canadian identity.

当时美国在加拿大的所作所为不被忘恩负义的加拿大人所接受，出于某种原因，他们对自己领土被入侵，首都被焚烧感到愤怒。这让加拿大打消了加入美国的念头，从那以后，两国就各自发展，加拿大人形成了独特的加拿大身份认同。

The US is already an anomaly, being one of the largest countries in the world. In most such large expanses of territory, people are sufficiently diverse that they feel the need to have separate countries. Look at Europe, for example - it is about 10% larger than the US in area, but divided into more than 40 countries. I don’t see any questions on Quora asking why Europe doesn’t become one big country - the Europeans wouldn’t like it, by a large margin.

美国作为全球领土最大的国家之一，已经非常的反常，在这样辽阔的领土上，人们之间有很大的差异性，这足以使他们觉得有必要各自建立自己的国家。以欧洲为例，它的面积比美国大约10%，但是欧洲却有40多个国家。我在quora上从来没有看到人们问为什么欧洲不统一成为一个大国，很大程度上欧洲人不喜欢这样。
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They do have the EU, which is less powerful than most central governments, but not all European countries are in it, and one major member just withdrew. So why would anyone expect a large area in North America (together, the US and Canada are larger than Russia, a unified country would be the largest in the world) to be a single country? North America is more linguistically unified than Europe (a large majority have English as their first language, then there are sizeable Spanish and French minorities), but other than that, what do people in British Columbia have in common with people in North Carolina? When you meet someone from California and someone from Newfoundland, can you tell them apart? Even within the US and within Canada, there is considerable regional variation.

他们已经有了欧盟，它的权力没有大部分国家的中央政府那么大，并不是所有的欧洲国家都是欧盟成员国，刚刚就有一个大国退出欧盟。所以为什么会有人希望北美的这么大一片地区会统一成为一个单一国家呢（美国和加拿大合并以后，领土会超越俄罗斯，成为世界第一大国）？北美在语言上要比欧洲更加统一，大部分人都将英语作为自己的第一语言，还有相当一部分少数民族说西班牙语和法语，但除此以外，不列颠哥伦比亚省的人和北卡罗莱纳州的人还有什么其他共同点吗?

The trend in recent decades has been for large countries to split up (decolonisation, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, the Soviet unx, Sudan, Pakistan) rather than for smaller countries to join up. And for already huge countries like the US and Canada to combine - nothing like that has happened recently. I think Canada or the US having pieces broken off (Quebec in Canada, Texas or California in the US) not very likely, but more likely than the two countries joining up. Where tighter integration does happen, it tends to be in the form of trade agreements and agreements for free movement of people (EU, Australia/New Zealand, proposals for UK/Canada/Australia/New Zealand), rather than political unification. Maybe the US and Canada will make immigration/trade easier, but I doubt they’ll combine politically.

近几十年来的趋势是大国分裂(去殖民化、捷克斯洛伐克、南斯拉夫、苏联、苏丹、巴基斯坦)，而不是小国联合。对于像美国和加拿大这样庞大的国家合并的事情，近来真的没有先例。虽然我认为美国和加拿大分裂的可能性不大(加拿大的魁北克，美国的德克萨斯或加利福尼亚)，但这种可能性还是要比两国合并的可能性要大一点。更紧密的融合往往是以贸易协议和人员自由流动的形式实现的，而不是通过政治统一。也许美国和加拿大会让移民和贸易变得更加便捷，但我认为他们不会在政治上进行统一。

Anonymous
US doesn’t need to ask Canada. Most Canadians love to merge with the great United States. But except for control on oil reserves(tar sands), there’s nothing that Canada could offer.

美国不需要问加拿大。大部分加拿大人想要和伟大的美国合并。但除了控制石油储备以外，加拿大并没有什么东西可以提供的了。

Now! if we put oil aside for a moment, the deal is pretty crap(from american point of view). California, Texas, New York, each have economies bigger than Canada’s. Canada only has Tar Sands and Bombardier, and frankly, any mid tier US corporation could buy bombardier in no time. So all that’s left is, Oil. Now!, As for Oil, well!, it certainly would have made a lot of sense for US, but with Shale revolution in US, this take over of Canadian oil by US seem less appetizing.

现在，如果不考虑石油的话，那么这就是一场非常糟糕的交易（从美国角度来看）。加州，德州，纽约，每一个的经济规模都要超过加拿大。加拿大只有焦油砂和庞巴迪，但老实说，任何中等规模的美国企业都可以立刻买下庞巴迪。所以剩下有价值的就是石油了。至于石油，好吧，它肯定对美国很有意义，但随着美国页岩油革命，接管加拿大石油对美国来说似乎也不怎么诱人了

John Smith, A Canadian who has spent lots of time in London.
A Canada-USA merger into one nation will never happen.
The reasons why Canada and the USA are very incompatible are numerous, so I will just touch on a few:

加拿大和美国永远都不会合并成一个国家
美国和加拿大有很多地方难以调和，所以我就只说几点

The "Quebec issue". Quebec is a province of 7-million and largely French-speaking. There is constant strife between Anglo-Canadians and francophones over language rights, equalization treatment and a host of other things. I doubt America will want to inherit this.
Canada is a Parliamentary Monarchy and not prepared to give that up.

“魁北克问题”。魁北克是一个拥有700万人口的省份，主要讲法语。英裔加拿大人和讲法语的加拿大人之间一直就语言权利，平等待遇和其他一系列问题之间存在冲突，我不知道美国人是否愿意继承这一切。
加拿大是一个议会君主制国家，而且并不打算放弃这个制度。

Gun laws. Americans would not appreciate the fact that Canadians prefer to have strict gun-control laws and do not believe in the idea of everyone arming themselves for "protection"
Religion. This is a fairly big one, since Canadians are extremely uncomfortable with the amount of stock Americans place on religion -- especially the way religion enters the political spectrum.
The metric system vs imperial system of measurement.

枪支法律。加拿大人更加喜欢严格的控枪法律，而且他们不相信每个人应该武装保卫自己的理念，这和美国人之间存在冲突。
宗教。这是一个相当大的问题，因为加拿大人对美国人对宗教的重视程度感到非常不舒服，特别是宗教进入政治光谱的方式。
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Dan Sloan
Culturally Canada and the U.S. are moving in different directions anyway. The U.S. is becoming more Latin with California expected to be majority Latino in 15 years while Canada becoming more diverse overall (Chinese in Vancouver, South Asian and Middle Eastern in other parts of the country) so any kind of merger is less and less likely.

在文化上，加拿大和美国正朝着不同的方向前进。美国正变得越来越拉美化，预计15年后加州将以拉美裔为主，而加拿大整体上变得更加多元化（温哥华的华人，其他地区有南亚裔和中东移民），因此任何形式合并的可能性变得越来越小。

Finally, the absorption of Canada would totally upset the political balance in the U.S. Most Canadians are politically left-of-center/centre by U.S. standards and this would give the Democrats a major political advantage. So the Republicans, who are more expansionist by nature, would block any attempt to merge. We don’t seriously consider the statehood of the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico for this reason as well.

最后，美国在吸收加拿大后，国内的政治会变得很不平衡。按美国标准来看，大部分加拿大人都是中间偏左的，这会让美国民主党获得巨大的政治优势。所以，即便共和党人本质上更具有扩张主义倾向，但他们绝对不会允许和加拿大合并。我们之所以没有严肃考虑接纳哥伦比亚和波多黎各就是出于这个原因。

Nancy Mills
I like it fine the way it is. It is easy to cross the border and visit friends and enjoy the other side. South of the border, many of us don’t trust either the government or our fellow man enough to willingly give up our right to bear arms. There is enough resistance from rural and traditional Americans that this will probably not change for a long long time. Canadians seem to regard us as gun-toting cowboys.

我喜欢现在这个样子。跨越边境非常容易，美加两国的朋友们可以互相看望彼此。在边境以南，我们许多人不信任自己的政府，也不相信自己的同胞，不愿意放弃携带武器的权利。来自农村保守的美国人阻力非常大。未来很长一段时间都无法改变，加拿大人将美国视为持枪的牛仔

Canadian socialism seems to work up there; I don’t think it would work down here. Too many of us and fanatics about our individual freedoms. Also our government is very corrupt and if we don’t constantly resist it, it will morph into an oligarchy even more horrendous than the one we’ve got. We have a distrust for the government that Canadians do not seem to have. Many Americans would like to live as Canadians. Probably only a minority of Canadians would wish to live as conservative rural Americans.

社会主义似乎能在加拿大发挥作用，但我认为这在美国是行不通的。美国有很多人都是狂热的个人自由主义分子，而且我们的政府也非常的腐败，如果我们不时时抵制它，它就会变成一个比现在更加可怕的寡头政治。我们不信任自己的政府，这和加拿大不同。许多美国人希望能有加拿大人那样的生活。但希望过保守农村美国人生活的加拿大人恐怕会很少。

Noel Ward
I live part of the year in Canada and it is a pleasure to be out of the US.
Canada and the US are better —and probably stronger— as separate nation-states.

我一年中有一部分时间会呆在加拿大，离开美国感觉棒极了
加拿大和美国，不合并，或许会更好，更强。

Apu Rasmussen
As a Canadian, I must say I am would not be against a merger, but not an unconditional one.
We have many things in common, but I do believe the political situation in the US has major issues…

作为加拿大人，我得说我并不反对合并，但不是无条件的
我们有很多的共同点，但我认为美国的政治局势存在重大问题
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Krnx Hoang
The United States has no official language, as an immigrant nation they believe that every should speak what they wish. Go into major cities, there are areas with only korean and Chinese signs

美国没有官方语言，作为一个移民国家，他们认为每个人可以想说什么语言就说什么语言。去大城市看看，有些地方只有韩文和中文标志

James Kennedy
This is all very 19th century wishing. It's way too late and will never happen.
If it HAD happened it would have been great - imagine the entire continent as one big unified country (not including Mexico of course).

这是19世纪的心愿，现在已经太迟了，美加永远不会合并了
如果真的合并了，那就太好了，想象一下整块大陆都成了一个统一国家（当然墨西哥不包括在内）。