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Canadians consider themselves anti-American

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Originally posted by: Schrodinger
Originally posted by: alphatarget1
Canadians can't seem to find their identity since the US and Canada is so similar. I have talked many Canadians and that's the conclusion I came up with. They simply don't want to be considered the 51st state. IMO Canadians are pretty cool people and most of them are not anti-American.
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Its not that at all. We have a very unique identity, -but- it is largely overshadowed by the US.

We differ on social issues more than you're led to believe and it wouldn't be clear until you've actually lived here 😉

I think a lot of Canadians just feel angered that their image is overshadowed by the USA to Americans and the world. This anger is just furthered and fueled by the fact that most Canadians find Americans arrogant (in general)... just the icing on top/one more thing.

I couldn't give a sh!t about it to be honest. I'm happy with who I am and don't really care what outsiders think of us. I know we're superior 🙂P😀)

In fact, in someways its nice NOT to be associated with the "Canadian Image"-- *cough* Trudeau (who Canada largely LOVES ...figure that one out 😉).
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Coming from California I can definitely say that people from Toronto were much friendlier. I remember going to that mall in downtown and there were these girl shirts with "Canadian girls kick ass". I don't think I have seen anything like that in America.

Americans that are arrogant and think they're above everyone else are just average idiots.
 
Originally posted by: Kibbo
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
I demand linkage. Why would you compliment a country you think is vile?
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Go fish for it yourself. You have been involved in threads where I say that Canada has good 'race relations' and there have been other threads complimenting their stance on homosexual rights. Of course the Canadian Mafia on this forum would rather ignore this.
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Hey, wouldn't ignore it intentionally, sheer surprise could've knocked it out of my head. I dont doubt you. My demand was tongue in cheek.

And I'm pretty sure you said that the nature of the Canadian state was vile.

Edit: Or was it that the state of the Canadian nature was vile?
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Actually I admitted in exaggerating and going overboard due to someone saying something absolutely disgusting - that in 100 years the entire world should look like Canada now. I believe that I called the Canadian state of affairs being global is vile. I also called Canada one of the least racist countries in the same thread.

What I find strange is that no other Canadian disagreed with such ridiculous notions. At least if someone said the same about the US, which would be equally as idiotic, there would be at least 10 other people correcting him or her. Perhaps the group of Canadians here, partly composed of the Canadian Mafia, are overly patriotic. Perhaps there are not enough Canadians here to keep the Canadian Mafia in line. Perhaps criticism of government and country is not nearly as accepted among these groups..
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Actually I admitted in exaggerating and going overboard due to someone saying something absolutely disgusting - that in 100 years the entire world should look like Canada now. I believe that I called the Canadian state of affairs being global is vile. I also called Canada one of the least racist countries in the same thread.

What I find strange is that no other Canadian disagreed with such ridiculous notions. At least if someone said the same about the US, which would be equally as idiotic, there would be at least 10 other people correcting him or her. Perhaps the group of Canadians here, partly composed of the Canadian Mafia, are overly patriotic. Perhaps there are not enough Canadians here to keep the Canadian Mafia in line. Perhaps criticism of government and country is not nearly as accepted among these groups..
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Criticizing our government is a national hobby; that's one of the social differences I really notice between Canada and the US; almost no one here would accuse you of being unpatriotic because you vocally disagree with government policy.
 
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Given what you have said here, I think it's possible that you would do better in Canada than the US. Mediocrity might be better off in Canada.
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Given what you have said here, I think you're better off in the US. We put the raging lunatics in asylums here, and you wouldn't have internet access there...
 
Originally posted by: Martin
Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Given what you have said here, I think it's possible that you would do better in Canada than the US. Mediocrity might be better off in Canada.
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Given what you have said here, I think you're better off in the US. We put the raging lunatics in asylums here, and you wouldn't have internet access there...
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How are you accessing the internet?
 
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
Criticizing our government is a national hobby; that's one of the social differences I really notice between Canada and the US; almost no one here would accuse you of being unpatriotic because you vocally disagree with government policy.
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Actually I feel that it is the other way, especially on this very forum. I don't find many Canadians being critical of Canada at all - nobody said that Canada should not form a moral superpower and nobody ever said anything about the entire world being like Canada is today in 100 years. I find that many Canadians seem to act hostile or rude, especially if another Canadian breaks from the hive mind, and often make outrageous claims and references. This is very tiring over the years and now I am simply acerbic in my responses.

And if an American criticized Canada, then the Canadian Mafia brings out their guns.

There needs to be a larger base of reasonable Canadians to counteract the Canadian Mafia on these forums.
 
i'd like canada more if they didn't let people setup sharia courts. that is just so absurd its not funny. and i have citizenship grrr..
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i'd like canada more if they didn't let people setup sharia courts. that is just so absurd its not funny. and i have citizenship grrr..
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i'd like it better if we didn't have those, too.
 
i'm not anti-American. i actually live and work so close to the border that i'd go so far as to say i'm quasi-American. South-Western Ontario here, close to the Windsor/Detroit border. i love it here and i don't mind the proximity to the US whatsoever - it's actually pretty convenient. Detroit and some of the surrounding areas may have a bad rep, but there's a lot to see & do.
 
Originally posted by: Forsythe
Worst joke ever...
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Not his fault you phrased it poorly.

Find me two developped, democratic nations who would score substantially differently on a similar study, and I will say "you were right, I was wrong." Something that has happend three times on this forum, so a relatively rare jewel.

Though I have my doubts about Japan. . .
 
There are plenty of developed, democratic nations who would score substantially differently than Canada. However they would be in the opposite way you are refering.
 
Originally posted by: 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.
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Some of this attitude can be understandable and some of it cannot. It is really a strange complex.
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I really dont care what Canada Thinks about the USA. The United States does a lot for Canada and Mexico. Since we occupy this continent, we tend to defend it pretty well. We protect Alaska in the north so that gives a first line of defense from attack from the Soviet block nations. It only makes sense for us to monitor the skies and waterways around the pacific and the atlantic to protect us. In doing so we give a lot of protection to our neighbors.

I saw an article yesterday that said we will start requiring passports by 2008 to cross our northern and southern border.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/04/06/us.travel.ap/index.html

This is part of a requirement by 2008.

I have traveled in Canada and I found it somewhat intersting, but very much different. I had an occassion to drive from Anchorage Alaska down the Alcan Highway and then south to central United States. One thing I found is lots of Americans were visiting Canada and spending US dollars there. I am guessing the same thing happens in the USA. As much as there may be mistrust and even mild hatred of each other's policies, we like each other as a trading partner.
 
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