Canadians consider themselves anti-American

[Stunt]

Source
This is a site to a prominent media outlet in canada, one of the big three in Canadian media. The content has been typically slightly right of centre, just due to the employee personal opinion, but nowhere close to propoganda or credible bias.
The reason i mention this is the Yes vote can be assumed to be lower than the average canadian perception as this is an internet poll for people who frequent the site.

Q: Is Canada anti-American?
Yes - 46%
No - 50%
Not sure - 5%

(6000 votes) - will be updated

 

[phillyTIM]

i wonder why.................................... !

lol

 

[judasmachine]

if you live next door to the bully rich fat ignorant kid doesn't mean you have to like him, even if you get along with him.

 

[0roo0roo]

of course. we are "the man"

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
if you live next door to the bully rich fat ignorant kid doesn't mean you have to like him, even if you get along with him.

when you are being followed around by an ankle biting whiny little chiwawa dog who thinks a little too much of himself..you just put up with it because what else can you do not worth your time.

 

[MegaWorks]

"One BBQ thread on it's way"

 

[Grunt03]

Who cares what they think or do?
Canadians have always cried and complained about everything, what have they ever done to warrent any attention al all?

If they are anti american, then stay on your side and mind your own bussiness......

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Stunt
Source
This is a site to a prominent media outlet in canada, one of the big three in Canadian media. The content has been typically slightly right of centre, just due to the employee personal opinion, but nowhere close to propoganda or credible bias.
The reason i mention this is the Yes vote can be assumed to be lower than the average canadian perception as this is an internet poll for people who frequent the site.

Q: Is Canada anti-American?
Yes - 46%
No - 50%
Not sure - 5%

(6000 votes) - will be updated

That's all I need to see. That poll is worthless.

 

[dmcowen674]

another reason to invade and take over Canada.

We sure could use all those resources for free :thumbsup:

 

[PELarson]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
another reason to invade and take over Canada.

We sure could use all those resources for free :thumbsup:

Been there, done that, didn't work!

 

[yllus]

It's an Internet poll.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Its the frogs in Montreal still pissed off about the French & Indian War. :laugh:

But the French never stood a chance...we had Daniel Day Lewis fighting for the English colonies!!!

 

[RabidMongoose]

It is the Canadian national identity. There is no Canada without anger, hatred, envy, constant comparison, whatever of the United States. You must constantly refer to and compare Canada to the United States if you are living in Canada. I'm not sure if anyone even talks about Canada in the United States.

They just have one neighbor, who happens to be the largest power in the world. The US actions have a large (in comparison) impact on Canada, but Canada has little impact on the US or anyone else. This would naturally cause a large amount of resentment.

Some of this attitude can be understandable and some of it cannot. It is really a strange complex.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: PELarson

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
another reason to invade and take over Canada.

We sure could use all those resources for free :thumbsup:

Been there, done that, didn't work!

When have we tried to invade and take over Canada recently???

 

[Pandaren]

/taps sarcasm meter

I've been to Canada a couple times over the past decade and I've observed none of that from any of the Canadians I know. Canadians don't seem all that much different from Americans, as far as I can tell.

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
It is the Canadian national identity. There is no Canada without anger, hatred, envy, constant comparison, whatever of the United States.
...
Some of this attitude can be understandable and some of it cannot. It is really a strange complex.

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: PELarson

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
another reason to invade and take over Canada.

We sure could use all those resources for free :thumbsup:

Been there, done that, didn't work!

When have we tried to invade and take over Canada recently???

Not recently. He's referring to the War of 1812 against the British.

 

[Moonbeam]

It is common knowledge that those who make their living in a garbage dump do not smell the garbage.

It is a wise fox who knows his own scent.

 

[smc13]

So the poll says Canadians aren't Anti-American but you throw a fudge factor into it and then ask why Canadians are so Anti-American? If Canadians were really anti-america you would think that you would be able to find a poll that actually demonstrates that, right?

 

[imported_Tango]

None of my canadian friends ever told me he as an antiamerican. And I am not american... so it was not because of our friendship.
And I'll tell you a story: a couple of months ago I was working in Paris with a young american university student who got an internship in france. One night we where drinking a beer and she told me: "It's funny... nobody ever told me anything bad because of my nationality. I thought coming here I would have faced a lot of aggressivity". I nor american nor french and couldn't understand why she thought all france could have been hating her just because she comes from Nashville. So I asked her if it was because of the big anti-war manifestations in the streets. And she replied:"no.. it's just that the televisions told americans were hated in europe".

So... it's all about the media. They like SOOOO much to make a little story bigger.

 

[Jon855]

I purpose one thing, look at our border "Canada and US" the longest undefended by military personalls. All we have are checkpoints, big deal. we're good, but however I would like to see more Canadians to socalize with Americans, maybe I'm wrong, it needs to be the other way around...

[to CANADIANS] Ratify one Declaration of Indepence to the Queen/whichever and create your own pure Republic system... This would be awesome...

 

[StageLeft]

It's an international pastime to hate the US. Many countries do it. I think Canada more than many because Canada is so much like America. It hates America, but when it looks in the mirror it knows that it's very much like the US. In a vein attempt to separate itself from its own shortcomings it derides the problems in America so that it doesn't have to deal with its own.

Or something.

It is the Canadian national identity.

Yep, definitely a lot of Canadian can't feel a national identity without saying what they AREN'T.

So... it's all about the media. They like SOOOO much to make a little story bigger.

It is in great part, and it's a vocal minority who are heard. As an American you can go to most countries in the world and people don't give a crap where you're from. That said, having lived in Canada and still staying in contact with some Americans, i can say that there is a very pervasive sense of superiority that Canadians have over Americans. Canada is sooooo much better. Just don't remind them that 10:1 is the ratio of Canadians who immigrate to US than the other way around

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Jon855
[to CANADIANS] Ratify one Declaration of Indepence to the Queen/whichever and create your own pure Republic system... This would be awesome...

Egads! Political change is not welcomed in Canada. Stay the course, take no risks, and stick to what's known.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Jon855
[to CANADIANS] Ratify one Declaration of Indepence to the Queen/whichever and create your own pure Republic system... This would be awesome...

Egads! Political change is not welcomed in Canada. Stay the course, take no risks, and stick to what's known.

Or... stick with what works?

 

[imported_Tango]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
It's an international pastime to hate the US. Many countries do it. I think Canada more than many because Canada is so much like America. It hates America, but when it looks in the mirror it knows that it's very much like the US. In a vein attempt to separate itself from its own shortcomings it derides the problems in America so that it doesn't have to deal with its own.

Or something.

It is the Canadian national identity.

Yep, definitely a lot of Canadian can't feel a national identity without saying what they AREN'T.

So... it's all about the media. They like SOOOO much to make a little story bigger.

It is in great part, and it's a vocal minority who are heard. As an American you can go to most countries in the world and people don't give a crap where you're from. That said, having lived in Canada and still staying in contact with some Americans, i can say that there is a very pervasive sense of superiority that Canadians have over Americans. Canada is sooooo much better. Just don't remind them that 10:1 is the ratio of Canadians who immigrate to US than the other way around

Well, there are cultural reasons for those immigration figures. The americans are not exactly a people of travellers, and usually don't even consider emigration. If somebody leaves his small town in the american countryside he is by far more likely to moove to a bigger city in the US than emigrate in another country.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Jon855
[to CANADIANS] Ratify one Declaration of Indepence to the Queen/whichever and create your own pure Republic system... This would be awesome...

Egads! Political change is not welcomed in Canada. Stay the course, take no risks, and stick to what's known.

Or... stick with what works?

An impossibly relative concept. Communism WORKS. Democracies WORK. Dictatorships WORK.