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My first impressions of the United States

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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Sabot
What I DID notice between the US and Canada is the difference in cultural minorities. Living in Toronto, where caucasian is now officially a minority, you see every race of people. Here it was really 50/50 white or black. Again I realize that's based on the geography of where I am.
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The completely depends on where you are. For example in Miami, FL it's over 75% Hispanic. Whereas Naples, FL which is is just on the west side of the state is 96% White.
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Completely, I can see that for sure. In Canada the only major difference I ever saw was the ratio of black to native canadians changes a lot from east to west coast, but the rest of very similar.
 
Originally posted by: Sabot
As some of you may know I took a trip down to Baltimore these past 2 days.

I'm sitting in the Philadelphia airport waiting for my connecting flight back to Canada right now, and thought I would throw out what my thoughts were after my first trip to the U.S.

I'm 22 about to turn 23 so you know, fairly odd I have not been to the states before. When I first got here I was rather unsure how to act, we Canadians are fairly friendly in reality, if not as much as you guys think we are. But after the past few days and dealing with a plethora of new co-workers and everyday joe's I can safely say that you guys are just as nice as we are. Aside from the accents, I would say there is very little difference eh.

Anyway I realize this is from a very brief stay, and not really going anywhere "bad", but still, way to go America.

Kudos from one Canadian eh?

Rob

Also I should add: I managed to say "eh" infront of everyone at my new job (about 15 people) who all doubled over with laughter hehe
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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Xanis
Originally posted by: Shawn
Don't step outside the Philly airport!
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Hey, don't hate on Philly. It's not as bad as you think. 😛
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I'm from Philly. 😉
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Ouch. 😛
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Still, there is no other place on earth that has cheese steaks or soft pretzels that taste anywhere near as good.
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damn straight.

I try them around here and they tast like crap...even compared to the street venders over there.

Their preztels with some musturd...so nice after an engineering lecture:heart:


or the cheesestakes....:heart:
 
Originally posted by: Sabot
What I DID notice between the US and Canada is the difference in cultural minorities. Living in Toronto, where caucasian is now officially a minority, you see every race of people. Here it was really 50/50 white or black. Again I realize that's based on the geography of where I am.
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Canada's #1 export to the U.S. is canadian "actors"/"actresses"
 
I'm sorry that the cities you went to were your first impressions...not the best places.

Oh, and you have it backwards. Canadians act just like Americans 🙂
 
Yeah i from what i've seen of the US (pretty much been thru the whole top third of the US albeit when i was younger), there isn't really much difference at all.

I do find Americans to be a bit more say, patriotic, at least outwardly, whereas we Canadian, as proud as we can be, are less obvious about it perhaps.
 
[American thinking at it's finest]

Do Canadians drive on the same side of the road?

[/American thinking at it's finest]
 
I traveled to Asia for one year and when I returned to the US... I landed at the O'hare chicago airport, first thing I noticed: how fat everyone was... americans are obese/overweight
 
Originally posted by: Sabot
I did laugh at the blue flashing lights on traffic signs because I had no idea what they were until someone pointed it out
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WTH kind of traffic sign was that? Never seen one with blue flashing lights on it.
 
Personally, I find the worst people if I ever go to the local mall. You tend to find the assholes who take up the entire walkway and expect you to move out of their way because they cannot be inconvenienced... yeah, I hate people.
 
My wife and I met a couple who are from Switzerland last summer-they are staying with her Mom who lives accross the street from us. She was born and raised here but moved to Europe when she was in her early 20s and married a Swiss guy. They are the nicest people and we really enjoy doing things with them. I think he's changed his views on Americans as well after living and working here for the past year.

:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Nutdotnet
Originally posted by: RichUK
I thought the Canadian accent was not too dissimilar from the American accent.

The south American accent, YUK YUK.
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The "South American" accent would probably sound quite different...considering South America consists of primarily Spanish and Portugese speaking people.

But...our accents can be slight to very different. Here in America we have a huge array of accents. From the South, to New York, Boston, Maine, California, Minnesota, etc...they all have different accents from each other.

Canada is probably most similar to a Minnesota/Wisconsin accent...unless they are from a French-speaking province.
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He means the "The South"
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Don't y'all have something better to do than to pick on southerners?
 
It's all in where you are in Canada. I live in Atlantic Canada, and save Halifax which has a small Arab population, towns are 99% white. I have been to Ontario however and it is just as if not more diverse then any of the cites I have been to in the states.
 
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