Some posters above have made reference to Canada's ties to the commonwealth. We could add the Fancophonie to that too. And these extended relations add to our identity too.
What's the difference between Canadians' & Americans' ?
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Oh, the minute I opened my mouth, you would know I was from Texas, not Canada.
I have the city accent though, not a dumb hillbilly accent you hear on TV.
Uncle
I have the city accent though, not a dumb hillbilly accent you hear on TV.
Uncle
OH? This comment sounds like a snob wrote it. If someone mistook me for Canadian, I laugh and say, "Close, but no banana." :lol:
Uncle
Hey, Unc. Welcome back. 
An american would wrap him/herself in their flag and flaunt to other American's that they were American. A Canadian would raise the Maple Leaf and yell out, "Drop the puck, ref!!"
An american would wrap him/herself in their flag and flaunt to other American's that they were American. A Canadian would raise the Maple Leaf and yell out, "Drop the puck, ref!!"
No, an American would just proclaim ‘I am better than anybody else’. After all, they believe in such a thing as ‘Manifest Destiny’.
The American who felt offended because he was mistaken for a Canadian may not be so untypical.
Ours are SOOOOOO much bigger... I think you have a little envy problem.
You're obviously watching a lot of it.
No...it is because some Canadians (not all mind you) need a large phallic symbol to compensate.
Well I'm living in the UK at the moment and there are more Americans who say they are Canadian than the other way round. Some have even had Maple leafs on their packs. Most are younger though, the older ones don't feel the need to hide as much I guess......;-)
And a Canadian would respond with...
"You Americans think you are so much better than everyone else... Us Canadians are so much better than you."
Fubar, that used to happen quite a lot when Bush was in power, Because of Bush’s cowboy, shoot from the hip policies, USA was universally despised. So, many Americans used to pretend that they are Canadians when they went abroad. They would wear a maple leaf pin etc.
They even used to have websites (I don’t know if they still exist) teaching Americans how to pretend to be Canadians. They would also have maple leaf pins, Canadian flags etc. for sale.
Now with Obama in power, USA is not universally despised any more, that phenomena may decrease. But it was very prevalent a while back.
I agree with this. Americans THINK they are better than everyone else.
Canadians know it.
That is not a Bush/Obama issue SirJoe. I was told by sources I felt creditable at the time, before I went to the UK for the first time in 1994 (hello President Clinton) that depending on where I went, there was anti-Americanism and I would have a much easier time being recognized as Canadian. Further to that, wearing a little Canadian flag pin or maple leaf would make things go easier. To be honest, no one ever remarked on it in the 2 weeks I was there, except for one guy in a pub in London, who noticed my accent before anything else and he thought I was Irish 8O and a sales rep at the firm we were visiting, asking if there was any special significance to the pin (he laughed when I told him why I wore it).
"Now with Obama in power, USA is not universally despised any more, that phenomena may decrease. But it was very prevalent a while back."
Nothing proves this idillic delusion better than the fact the day after this "historic" (perhaps more accurately hysteric) speech, Obama's chums set off a bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Nothing proves this idillic delusion better than the fact the day after this "historic" (perhaps more accurately hysteric) speech, Obama's chums set off a bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Obama is very popular abroad, Yukon, much more so than Bush. Bush was even more unpopular abroad than he was at home (if such a thing is possible).
Some of that popularity has to rub off on Americans in general. And anyway, American people were never all that unpopular; it is the unpopularity of Bush that was swamping everything. Now that he is gone, I expect world opinion of USA will change (if it hasn’t’ changed already).
Pretty defensive about your new president aren't you Durka? His chums are all scums, every mother one of them including you.:lol:
You got to get your water checked SJP, that or stop drinking it. Americans have always been unpopular except in thier stupid movies which you've obviously seen too many of. Same thing applied to the British and the Romans, nobody likes imperialists in thier town, then or now with the exception of traitors.
You expect world opinion to suddenly favour America because of Obamas speech? He's done nothing different or better and is very likely to continue to do nothing but follow his predecessors work of completeing the Zionist agenda. The world will very soon laugh at and deride the poverty stricken helpless United States of Amnesia.