Physiognomy and Subconscious Associations

[tealin]

Look at these faces ... try as hard as you can to just look at the facial features and ignore politics, if you can:



I think this is why I always got the impression that Stephen Harper (centre, Canadian Prime Minister-elect) was a smarmy leerer.

Comments

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

You've lived in Canada for a few years now, right? If so I don't expect you to know about the slight diplomatic differences between the USA and Norway these past few years. In fact, I hope people in Canada - and the rest of the World - don't. It started with 9/11, when the Bush administration noticed that Norway had not signed the list of countries that would support the US in the fight agains terrorism. The reason was simply that we didn't have a functioning government during those days. Our election had been on the 10th, the results were not at all clear, and it took some time to figure out who had the authority to put us formally on the supporter list. It did not help that Norway has a reputation for being leftist.

Over the past four year we've had to appologize to the US government on several occations, and all that time we had a conservative government. Now we have a socialist one again, a coallision, and the latest chapter was when one of our ministers managed to squeek out that we ought to boicot Israel (her party - which is not big - supports Palistine). Goodness grief! It was all they talked about in the news for the next two weeks. (And we did appologize to both Israel and the US.)

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Apology Accepted

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

There have been many of the same 'diplomatic differences' between Canada and the US ... not in specifics, but generally the same sort of growing tension. We didn't earn many points when we decided against going to Iraq, for example.