“My stepfather was born in East Germany. I was raised to love German culture and German food—even the red cabbage. It’s something I feel a tremendous kinship to. You are perhaps a little more . . . I’m looking for the right word—predictable? No, you’re more organized, maybe, than Canadians can be. We’ve got enough French and Latin blood in us to be less organized.”
The prime minister of Canada explains the nuances of our national character to a German news journal.
So, you can see that all that international travel hasn’t gone to waste . . .