It’s an old tactic used by American travellers, put a Canadian flag cap or patch on the bag and present themselves as Canadian to avoid the negative stereotypes, I’ve personally talked to more than one American doing this in my life and read about it more often online too. I guess it’s only gonna get more popular.
Yeah, i know. See my other reply from moments ago. I’ve never heard the term “ugly Canadian” or railing against their imperialist culture abroad. I’ve seen some latent sense of superiority over them (especially wrt frankophones) but not outright hatred. They aren’t treated like a threat, from my limited experience, and that was before our government went Fascist.
I didn’t intend to do that. I realize you also have a growing right-wing that is on the same page as ours, and there are other excesses, along with insane housing issues.
I also feel like the ire of the world is not as strongly directed at you. We have decadea of negative stereotypes. It comes from being “in your face” for so long and having such outsize influence in the world.
I remember encountering several negative ideas during my term abroad in Europe during college and was very careful to avoid reinforcing any of them.
This stuff is embarassimg. I swear, next time i travel I’m gonna have to claim I am Canadian.
The stupid - it burns!
Why? They can be just as stupidly racist.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-video-racially-charged-comments-1.7354996
It’s an old tactic used by American travellers, put a Canadian flag cap or patch on the bag and present themselves as Canadian to avoid the negative stereotypes, I’ve personally talked to more than one American doing this in my life and read about it more often online too. I guess it’s only gonna get more popular.
Yeah, i know. See my other reply from moments ago. I’ve never heard the term “ugly Canadian” or railing against their imperialist culture abroad. I’ve seen some latent sense of superiority over them (especially wrt frankophones) but not outright hatred. They aren’t treated like a threat, from my limited experience, and that was before our government went Fascist.
Don’t pedestalize Canadians. We’re just as dumb and racist. Remember, ppl are unironically fighting for private health care.
I didn’t intend to do that. I realize you also have a growing right-wing that is on the same page as ours, and there are other excesses, along with insane housing issues.
I also feel like the ire of the world is not as strongly directed at you. We have decadea of negative stereotypes. It comes from being “in your face” for so long and having such outsize influence in the world.
I remember encountering several negative ideas during my term abroad in Europe during college and was very careful to avoid reinforcing any of them.
The racism or the made up story?
Mi vida, llevo 30 años viviendo en esta frontera, 0% falsa la historia; pasa todo el día en todas partes.
Je suis desolee - Je ne comprends pas l’espagnol. Parlez-vous francais ou l’anglais ? ;)
I heard there’s a tariff on those Canadian pins and badges.
I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)