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90% of being a Canadian is not being an American. We define ourselves by how we are different from the US, and thus calling us Americans makes it seem like we have no reason to be exsiting as a seperate nation.
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FG: Hell yeah. You should see what we do to the American students up here at school who think Toronto is near Edmonton. Trust me, the differences between Canadians and Americans are far greater then one would think. Knowledge about things outside one's homecountry is the big giveaway. Arrogance is another.
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Since I work at Six Flags Darien Lake, in Western NY, I have a lot of contact with Canadians...
Many people have said that "Canadians are much more polite than the Americans."
Well, let me tell you, there are polite Canadians, and rude ones too, just as the US has rude and polite people. You Canadians are more like us than you'd like to admit.
BTW, does Canada, specifically the Toronto/Niagara Falls region have a problem with Pakistani? I keep running into Canadians who seem to not like em...
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OK, now I'm intrigued. Are there Pakistani haters down there, and are their reasons any different from the ones propagated by the extreme right?
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I doubt you will find a statistically significant number of Americans who have anything against Pakistanis because they (or their ancestors) are from Pakistan. You'd be hard-pressed to find Americans who could find Pakistan on a map without an index, for that matter.
On the other hand, I fear that you may find a few Americans who would hate Pakistanis because they're "furriners". Of course, many of these same people believe that the native Americans ought to go back where they came from.
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Nationality is important, yes. It's just that Canadians are so similar to US citizens (to borrow a term ), I don't see why they complain when the two aren't distinguished from each other.
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Frank: Why we complain is that we are the only people who do not recognize that we are almost indistinguishable from Amercians. If you ask many Canadians whether, as a soceity, we are closer to the Americans or the British they will say the British.
On disliking foreingners: A few years ago a study was done asking people's opinions on the effect Wissan-Americans had on the US. Almost a third of those polled said that they though the invented ethnic group was having a negative effect on the US.
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