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Do you dislike being mistaken for Americans? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Around ~2008 I was in a Barcelona hostel and met a guy there. He started speaking and I interrupted him excitedly...."Oh you're American!!".

He looked down...the weight of pain curdled the air around us. You could sense deep sorrow welling beneath the surface of this man. He paused for what felt like an eternity to compose himself,

He looked up with a piercing, but harrowing, stare and said "No, I'm Canadian...."

I'll never forget that moment. That sheer depth of emotion is something I haven't experienced before or since.

Did I silently murder this poor Canadian soul? How do Canadians cope with the mistaken identity?

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[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago (14 children)

This may be ranty, so sorry in advance. Canadians and Americans are very different. They are our brothers and we love them.That being said politically, socially and culturally we are very far apart. I would not be offended if someone thought I was American but I would correct them. I belive the equivalent would be if someone said "Oh your a Scott?" neighbour's for over a 1000 years but not the same. I'm assuming your British sorry. Also, to add we do have a growing presence of "We should be part if America" weirdos. Who would say something like "Canada has no culture".

[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I’m assuming your British sorry

This may be ranty, so sorry in advance. But Scots are British. They're not English but they are British. Haha. :p

Canadians and Americans are very different.

I respectfully disagree...

  1. You sound the same.
  2. I asked who you guys would support in a war between UK and America - You seemed to support the US more.
  3. Your humour is more American than British. Do you even banter?
  4. You literally ride moose into battle.
  5. You think it's acceptable to tickle beavers.
  6. You love guns.

About the only thing that seems un-American is that fox Justin Trudeau and it seems you're planning to vote him out next election. How, why? Have you seen that face? He isn't a man! He's a god!

So Canadian == American.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

6a - Canadians go shooting in forests
6b - Americans go shooting in schools, shopping malls, or other public places

I’m American. I’m allowed to make dark jokes about how screwed up our society is.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think that everyone can make jokes about the mass shooting events, as long as it's not about any one specific event, and at least until you guys stop having about 12 per week.

You guys are actually doing pretty good this year, only 12 in the past 15 days!
And only 54 kids killed by guns this year so far, that's only like 1 every 8 hours.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

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