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After wtching the winter olympics opening ceremony, I'm now convinced many canadians have an inferiority complex towards yanks. I know he was sposed to be a "poet", but who has an evangelical style preacher carrying about how good you are because you're different to Americans? E.g. "and yes we say "zed" not "zee" (everyone does except the yanks you stooge). I can't recall anyone else really doing such a thing at their olympics, at least in recent times.

When I was overseas a couple of years ago, numerous Canadians got annoyed if we asked them if they were American. I can understand it might be a bit annoying, but FFS, we can't hear the difference between the canadian and american accents, its not our fault. Then they procede to ask you where you're from in England, does that mean I should get annoyed now too? You can kind of see why the yanks like to have a go at them.

I have no idea if that made sense, but I was wondering what other people's thoughts are about this sort of thing.
 
I'm married to a Canadian and have spent a lot of time there so I suppose I can answer this. It's not so much an inferiority complex to the Americans - it's more that they are very, very patriotic and proud of their country. Canada Day is huge over there. Much bigger than how we celebrate Australia Day. If you think the baggy green is important to us, you should see how they follow Team Canada in hockey.

That speech was very much a take on the 'I Am Canadian' rant that was feature on a series of Molson Beer ads. Have a look on YouTube. It's kind of a running joke on the whole "so you're from Canada, you must know Joe" thing. Some Americans think Canada is that small. It does bug Canadians a little that people think they are just like Americans but not that much. Canada is to America what New Zealand is to us. They are the little brother.

Anyway, that's pretty much it. They are into their nationalism and comparing themselves to the States is a cultural thing. I suppose any western country would if they were overshadowed by a neighbour with such world influence.
 
Meh they're allright as long as you're up for hearing canadian stories. Mate's gf is a Canadian and I went out with about 10 of her friends one night. They're ok. They like their beer and telling people how their accent differs from Americans.
 

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they do. well, on the basis of the one i've met, they do. ;) :p this guy was so adament he was canadian. if you mention anything about america, he's quick to distance himself from it and again explain how he's canadian.
 
I lived there last year and yes they do. But the weird part is in a lot of ways they are very very similar to Americans. I was in Toronto though, which is considered a bit too American by the rest of Canada. There is one good thing about Canada though:

Canadian girls>>>>>American girls.
 
Canadian girls tend to be freaky, but the one Canadian girl that I had a close friendship with was half American so I guess she didn't care about the whole Canada vs US thing as much.

They're very friendly people in general.
 
Tex_21 said:
I love to keep Canadians as pets. Keep them locked in my basement
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Yeah its the same as Kiwi's towards us, Scots towards English, Irish towards everyone, it happens everywhere... Human nature.

The ones I have met have irritated me how overly patriotic they were and they do seem to have a sort of strange superiority/inferiority complex over the yanks. They think they're better than americans but also feel the need to constantly compare tehmselves to them...

But we're no worse.
 
haha i was on exchange there last year and on my birthday we were in a kareoke bar and my friend dedicated a song to me and then proceeded to sing the American nation to me. Funny thing is, half the crowed booed him, but the other half were cheering him on and laughing. I found from my experiences that like anything, some people cared and some didnt. Best people in the world though!
 
ChunkyDuckling said:
Yeah its the same as Kiwi's towards us, Scots towards English, Irish towards everyone, it happens everywhere... Human nature.

The ones I have met have irritated me how overly patriotic they were and they do seem to have a sort of strange superiority/inferiority complex over the yanks. They think they're better than americans but also feel the need to constantly compare tehmselves to them...

But we're no worse.
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To be honest, I really don't get that vibe from kiwis. Obviously there is some element of it, but from what I've seen on TV Canadians just blow them out of the water in that regard. I have met a few and I went to NZ quite a few years ago now, but never really noticed a lot about them having a massive inferiority complex towards us.
 
I wouldn't call it an inferiority complex. They just get pissed-off that people lump there country with America. Completely different place. Different history, culture, personalities, legal system, health system, education etc. Lots of people just say "Canada/America - same thing". I'd get annoyed too if people thought Australia and New Zealand were the same place.
 
I don't like the idea of keeping Canadians as pets. They never seem to know what you're talking aboot.
 

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We Americans love Canadians. You can blame them for anything. Mostly because everything is their fault. That is, the Canadian ex-pats. The Canadians proper (those who actually live in Canada and have the courtesy of staying put) are aware of this and we share a kindly symbiotic relationship with them - sort of like that shared between a rhino and an oxpecker.

You see the Canucks are no different from the rest of the world. They have a percentage of bothersome idiots. The Canadian solution to this problem is quite clever actually. They tell their idiots that they possessed with a great deal of talent and should pursue a big-money career in the lucrative United States entertainment swamp. The idiots believe this and come south to muck everything up for us. This benefits the Canadians proper, because they are now light a load of idiots. It benefits us Americans because everything that sucks is the fault of a Canadian.

Here's a short list:

The three years ending the last century was aloud with the banshee wailing of that Titanic song. Said banshee: Celene Dion of Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada.

Annoyed that Jim Carrey makes $20 million a picture to basically make the same movies over and over with the same goofy facial expressions? Do you mean Jim Carrey of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada?

Every time you type "hot bikini chicks" into a search engine, you are eventually going to find out that Pamela Anderson has just married some tattoo smothered sleeze she met yesterday. Photos of her ever-widening, stretch marked, cellulite and venereal disease infested body are your reward. Then you get to read about her pontificating on how people shouldn't hunt, fish, wear fur or eat meat. She has many other solutions to the world's problems as well. Why she bothers trying to get attention with an "accidental" nipple slip on the red carpet when everyone has already seen her suck a d!ck is beyond me. You know the Pamela Anderson I'm talking about. The one from Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada.

Captain Kirk could be the coolest character between James Bond and Jason Bourne. Instead, he's an over-acted ham. That ham would be from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

You can't make fun of twitchy people with Parkinson's Disease anymore. Not since Michael J. Fox started making TV commercials begging doctors to find a cure made from abortion juice. I don't know why Fox blames lack of US stem cell research on his own affliction. Why doesn't he talk to his hometown doctors in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada?

Canadians are to blame for everything. Then there's the biggest world disaster yet of this century. I'm of course talking about Lindsey Jacobellis failing to make the medal round in the Olympic snowboard cross. Are we to be surprised this happened on a mountain overlooking Vancouver?

I should stop right now because I know I've well proven my point. But there's something Alanis Morissette 'oughta know.' Hey, Alanis. After five man-hating angst filled albums, you should know that the schmuck who broke your heart and started all this rubbish did it because you're an ugly bitch. Go back home. All the way back to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
 
I can tell the difference in the accent, probably cause my girlfriend is one. I also think they don't want to get mistaken for Americans for an important reason - they don't want to get the crap beaten out of them.

My gf's Dad was telling me about a young guy he works with. He came over here, and found in a few bars, that people literally wanted to kick the shit out of him when they heard him speak - assuming he was American. He was quick to point out he was Canadian each time and suddenly it was all good.
 
Yeah, I actually forget my wife has an accent. I think she has a bit of a mix now though because whenever we go back people think she's Irish or something.

That's a good point about Canadians not wanting to be associated with Americans when they travel. That's why a lot of them put the Maple Leaf on their backpacks. Actually, I've known a couple of Americans to do the same thing to avoid any trouble.
 
Catfish Alley said:
Yeah, I actually forget my wife has an accent. I think she has a bit of a mix now though because whenever we go back people think she's Irish or something.

That's a good point about Canadians not wanting to be associated with Americans when they travel. That's why a lot of them put the Maple Leaf on their backpacks. Actually, I've known a couple of Americans to do the same thing to avoid any trouble.
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A lot of terrorist groups that take hostages tend to single out Americans first if they are going to start shooting people. If I was an American in that situation I'd be saying I was Canadian, although it might be a problem if they were checking passports or other ID.

It used to be pretty safe to say you were Australian overseas too but since our involvement in the War on Terror in Afghanistan/Iraq we are now a target for terrorists as well. Might be safer to say we're New Zealanders these days.:D
 
Plugger35 said:
A lot of terrorist groups that take hostages tend to single out Americans first if they are going to start shooting people. If I was an American in that situation I'd be saying I was Canadian, although it might be a problem if they were checking passports or other ID.

It used to be pretty safe to say you were Australian overseas too but since our involvement in the War on Terror in Afghanistan/Iraq we are now a target for terrorists as well. Might be safer to say we're New Zealanders these days.:D
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Given how many troops Canada has in Afghan (albeit they are now withdrawing) I wouldn't say they are safe either
 

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