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We never liked it. In school every canadian geography class HAS to go through this :
Kid: "But miss, if America is the continent why are USA citizen called Americans?"
Teacher: "Because they're arrogant ego monsters that believe the world revolves around their asshole, Billy. "
My take is that they did not have creativity to come up with a name for their country, itโs just a bunch of states in America; so thereโs little choice of a practical thing to call them
What's wrong with Usaians? For people from the USA?
Thereโs no seriousness in pronouncing that
Came to Canada over 24 years ago... called some Canadians "Americans" by mistake, they did not like it hehehehe
Some of us were ahead of the curve, I guess. My entire family has been the second version my whole life.
Funny, 2002 was the year they bombed us in Afghanistan.
I've always answered "Fighting words" when someone asked if was American. (I live in Australia, and the assumption that my accent is American always irked me)
These days people who do ask where I am from do so by asking if I am Canadian, a sharp contrast to when I moved here over a decade ago. I guess some other Canadians have dropped the polite corrections and gone straight to growling.
As a guy with a very heavy Ottawa Valley drawl, I often get mistaken for being American. The accent only gets heavier when I'm tired so you can imagine how it must be after a long international flight.
The latter response was always the response.
nah we always answered with a politely scoffed "no"
If we just said no it was "fuck no" or "do you want to take this outside?"
It's not like our opinions of them have changed. We've always viewed it as an insult.
nah, my opinion has definitely changed. I'm disgusted that so many people voted for this shit, and that so many didn't vote against it.
but to be fair, I'm disgusted by that in Canada as well.
You're disgusted that they voted for someone who embodies everything we think Americans are?
I think the only US stereotype he's missing is incest but he's definitely made comments which fit.
Pity Mbin doesn't support commenting on Loops directl.
Maybe because itโs a link and not a cross post?
I dunno. Why you put the link into the search bar, it finds it, but when you click on "reply" I get on a page with "404". So I can see the information about the post, but can't open the post directly.