Why do Americans pick on Canada so much?

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-11-19 08:29pm

zombie84 wrote:In my experience most Americans have a rather condesending attitude towards Canada but not anything hateful or offensive--i take it that they consider us to be like a younger, stupider, harmless little sibling. I've found that the misconceptions and negativity towards us increases as you get further and further south. Most of northern United States is pretty much the same as Canada, culturally speaking.

Yeah, last time I went to Canada it wasn't much different from Massachusets or upstate New York, but when you go from New York to friggin Central Florida, the difference is damn huge.

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2003-11-19 08:35pm

It's because we get Canada's useless quarters in our change.

But seriously, I've always seen it the way RedImperator put it. Deep down we really love you guys, but we just like to pick on you.

A little side story here. My friend Eric bet five bucks, on the Dallas, Tampa Bay game, with a guy he works with. Tampa Bay won. The next day Eric checks his mailbox at work, and there's his five buck, five bucks Canadian that is.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-11-19 08:35pm

I like to poke fun at Canadia playfully but I don't know anyone who actually dislikes Canada.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2003-11-19 08:36pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Well, those of us that don't hate Canada pick on Canadians for much of the same reason that the English pick on Wales:

It's easy and fun. No hard feelings intended.

Unless the rest of you are more used to an angrier type of mockery that I'm not...

Exactly. It's kinda how us Californians pick on people from Iowa

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-11-19 08:45pm

Most people I know don't really care enough to have an opinion.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-11-19 08:46pm

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:It's because we get Canada's useless quarters in our change.

Once again, at the current rate the Canadian dollar's going up those quarters are gonna be worth more than American ones in about 2 years. And yes, we do steal all your American change, I get American coins in my change about 30% of the time when I buy stuff. Just doing our part to help drain your economy.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-11-19 08:55pm

Well if they're going to be worth so much, mayby you guys should start minting them so the damn things work in our vending machines.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-11-19 09:14pm

Like it's been said before, none of the Northern states hate Canada. It's more like some misguided Great White Northern state that's good for its hockey and maple syrup (but the beer sucks

canadian doller to those who get where that came from).

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-11-19 09:19pm

I'm all for a lot of Canada's political and social policies, but as for people making fun of Canada, there's a simple explanation: it's very, very, easy. Consider:

1. Canada has approximately the same average temperature and poulation density as the night side of the moon.

2. There is a perception that Canadians talk funny (mostly because of the McKenzie brothers).

3. The animals most associated with Canada isn't the bear or the moose, but rather, the beaver (frankly, I think people show a surprising amount of restraint when it comes to this one).

4. The centerpiece of the Canadian flag is a maple leaf, which (while amusing enough on its own) bears a suspicious resemblance to a marijuana leaf.

5. One quarter of Canada's population and all of its politicians are Frenchy.

6. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

But most importantly of all...

7. Canadians are nice, friendly, outgoing people. We wouldn't dare do half this stuff if your guys weren't so awesome. I thank you and apologize for all the silly shit Americans have said about Canada.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-11-19 09:20pm

Andrew J. wrote:4. The centerpiece of the Canadian flag is a maple leaf, which (while amusing enough on its own) bears a suspicious resemblance to a marijuana leaf.

I think you have to be stoned in the first place for that one to work, because for someone sober it's quite a stretch...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-11-19 09:21pm

Balrog wrote:Like it's been said before, none of the Northern states hate Canada. It's more like some misguided Great White Northern state that's good for its hockey and maple syrup (but the beer sucks canadian doller to those who get where that came from).

Great another twit who saw Canadian Bacon

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2003-11-19 09:30pm

Because bullies always pick on there moral and intellectual superior?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-11-19 09:57pm

Darth Wong wrote: In short, Canada is a standing rebuttal to their bullshit

Sort of like how your gun registry program is a colossal fuckjob and has
not prevented one crime but is growing and growing and growing in cost?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-11-19 10:04pm

Solauren wrote:Because bullies always pick on there moral and intellectual superior?

That would explain the incessant America bashing coming from Europe, then....

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-19 10:08pm

Reasons Canada gets picked on:

1) Bryan Adams

2) Shania Twain

3) Peter Jennings

4) Tom Cochrane

5) Crash Test Dummies

6) K D Lang

(Personally, I'd love to go see Canada, it seems like a really great place. *Sprays binaca into throat* FOR ME TO POOP ON!)

No, seriously, just joking around in the spirit of the thread, Canada, for me, was never really something to joke about (Other than strange Brew and South park [LMFAO]) canadians were always just....the quiet neighbors who live next door

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-11-19 10:20pm

yeah, but "Kids in the Hall" is so fucking funny it more than makes up for those bozos. And I don't hear country music musicians coming from Canada - No, they come from our own borders.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-11-19 10:22pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:yeah, but "Kids in the Hall" is so fucking funny it more than makes up for those bozos. And I don't hear country music musicians coming from Canada - No, they come from our own borders.

Shania Twain=Country singer=from Canada.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-19 10:23pm

One of my closest friends is from Canada. I still make fun of Canada. And Iowa.

Hey, you know why there's a strong north wind through Minnesota all the time?

Because Canada blows and Iowa sucks.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2003-11-19 10:24pm

I don't know her music, but I'll take your word for it, and please pardon my ignorance

Shania Twain, goddamn Canuckistani

edit: fixed emoticon

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-11-19 10:37pm

Montcalm wrote:
aerius wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:'Canada' as an independent entity will only exist for the next decade or two. We might as well make fun of it while we can.
Given the way things are going down there I kinda think it's the other way around.
You think the US could A: become Canada II or B: part of Canada.

More like Canada can become America Jr.

Seriously though, I don't have anything against Canada, I'm planning to spend a nice chunk of time there if they ever reinstated the draft, and hell when me and my friends planned to get some handguns and go take over a country to form the glorius nation of Cracktopia, who did we pick? Well thats mostly cause we more afraid of mexicans than monties.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-11-19 10:46pm

Because we're amused by a country somehow more British than us, while simultaneously more liberal than us, with the population of California, and the world's largest cultural inferiority complex, with no other nation comparing itself to the U.S. in all statements about itself.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-11-19 10:48pm

Durran Korr wrote:Most people I know don't really care enough to have an opinion.

Most people I know think that Canadians ride dogsleds to work and live in igloos, so they probaby don't care about it either.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-11-19 10:52pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Andrew J. wrote:4. The centerpiece of the Canadian flag is a maple leaf, which (while amusing enough on its own) bears a suspicious resemblance to a marijuana leaf.
I think you have to be stoned in the first place for that one to work, because for someone sober it's quite a stretch...

What the fuck are you talking about?

The leaves itself don't emit a massive stench. He was talking about a leaf, not one burning.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-11-19 11:10pm

I am contractually obligated to make fun of Canada, and without fear
of punishment, because I have a dirty seecret to reveal:

I'm 50% Canadian through my father's family

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-11-19 11:19pm

SERVO (in a reasonable facsimilie of an RCMP dress uniform):
Oh I wish I was back, in old Canada
A land which I never shall lampoon
O I pine for the ice covering Lake Manitoba
And the beauty that is Saskatoon

MIKE: Let me try:

Oh I wish I was stuck in the hills of Alberta
Talking to some big dumb guy trapping fur
As he scraped and he chiseled all the moose dung off his boots
I would learn that he's the Prime Minister!

CROW:
Oh I'd love to visit the land that gave us Peter Jennings,
Alannis Morissette, Mike Myers too,
Oh I take it back, I wouldn't go there even if you paid me,
Oh Canada, you are a land I must eschew!

SERVO:
Oh I wish I was blowing up Prince Edward Island
And then go on to bomb Ontario!
The destruction of Canada and all of its culture
Is by far my favorite scenario

Just where the hell does Canada get off sharing a border
With countries far superior to it!?
Why you lousy rotten Francophonic bacon-lovin' bastards!
Why your country's just a giant piece of shi...

MIKE:
Whoa there, Servo! Mustn't hate, mustn't hate...

CROW:
At least so overtly...

MIKE:
Yes, we must disguise our hate...

SERVO:
I don't know what came over me... Pardonez moi, pardonez moiiiii...

MIKE:
We'll be right back.

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