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The South Park depiction of the cliched American view of a Canadian may help to shed some light on the OP's original question.
Not that I would recommend watching an episode...
Not that I would recommend watching an episode...
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My F-I-L is a grand pooba in the Masonic Lodge and has suggested membership to me. I've made my excuses politely (I'm too young to be driving a Buick and wearing silly regalia and memorizing incomprehensible text). The Masonic Lodge tends to be more popular in rural, protestant areas of Canada where the un-hyphentated tend to retreat to. Lodge membership is on a heavy decline due to the rapid aging of the membership.
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1812 war maybe?
Very sweeping statement though-
in my opinion Canadians are American wannabe's anyway!! Don't shout at me - I am Canadian- it just makes me laugh that they are so ante USA and yet they have built their homes like the Americans, drive the same cars as the USA, trade heavily with the USA, have CDN versions of Walmart, Sears, Lowes, Home Depot etc...
Go figure!!
Very sweeping statement though-
in my opinion Canadians are American wannabe's anyway!! Don't shout at me - I am Canadian- it just makes me laugh that they are so ante USA and yet they have built their homes like the Americans, drive the same cars as the USA, trade heavily with the USA, have CDN versions of Walmart, Sears, Lowes, Home Depot etc...
Go figure!!
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My F-I-L is a grand pooba in the Masonic Lodge and has suggested membership to me. I've made my excuses politely (I'm too young to be driving a Buick and wearing silly regalia and memorizing incomprehensible text). The Masonic Lodge tends to be more popular in rural, protestant areas of Canada where the un-hyphentated tend to retreat to. Lodge membership is on a heavy decline due to the rapid aging of the membership.
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Protection and to deflect the negative comments and vibes that can in many lands be part and parcel of the deal if one hails from the USA.
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I do however know of some Canadian backpackers who sported American flags. Ironically.
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I don't think it happens. I don't think most Americans have heard of Canada and I doubt that those who have perceive Canada to be viewed more favourably in Europe than the USA. I think the perception that it happens derives from the inability of Europeans (and, indeed, Canadians and Americans) to tell Canadians and Americans apart. A European sees an arsehole with a Canadian flag and assumes that person to be an American impersonating a Canadian when, in fact, that's just a Canadian arsehole.
I do however know of some Canadian backpackers who sported American flags. Ironically.
I do however know of some Canadian backpackers who sported American flags. Ironically.
"I didn't feel confident travelling off the beaten track through the Middle East, India, and Asia with a sign over my head saying I'm an American"
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I'm sure it's not rife by any means but it does happen.
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I don't think it happens. I don't think most Americans have heard of Canada and I doubt that those who have perceive Canada to be viewed more favourably in Europe than the USA. I think the perception that it happens derives from the inability of Europeans (and, indeed, Canadians and Americans) to tell Canadians and Americans apart. A European sees an arsehole with a Canadian flag and assumes that person to be an American impersonating a Canadian when, in fact, that's just a Canadian arsehole.
I do however know of some Canadian backpackers who sported American flags. Ironically.
I do however know of some Canadian backpackers who sported American flags. Ironically.
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Maybe not overall, but those Americans who venture abroad - particularly of the backpacking variety - are precisely those who will most likely have heard of Canada, and be more aware than their compatriots of the distruct for America and Americans in some quarters in Europe and the Middle East and the conversely warm and fuzzy feelings for Canada and Canadians. It's those people who sew Canadian flags on their backpacks. I know several who have done so.
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