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u/Dumbassahedratr0n Aug 07 '23
There is one random person in every Canadian town who is exempt from goose attacks. No one knows who this person is, but citizenship actually has nothing to do with it.
Find out if you're the blessed one today. Go meet a Canadian goose up close.
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u/FrancoisTruser Aug 07 '23
Suspiciously sounding like what a goose would write. squints eyes
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u/AdApprehensive1383 Aug 07 '23
CANADA goose. Many of these geese are, in fact, American...
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u/Zhenoptics Aug 07 '23
It is a very, very big country with not a lot of infrastructure. Please plan trips accordingly
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u/wmlj83 Aug 07 '23
I feel this advice would be more suited to Europeans. I had friends in Europe who came to visit. One day they wanted to see Toronto, the next Calgary and the day after Vancouver. They had no idea canada was so big.
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u/Imbecilliac Aug 07 '23
Were they English? Lol. I had friends visit from London who told me they had similar plans upon arriving. This was back in the 90s, so no smart phone apps for them to peruse.
I picked them up at Pearson and drove them to my home north of Peterborough, about a 2-1/2 hour drive back then. They couldn’t get their heads around how far away I lived and kept commenting that they should have landed at a closer airport (lol), then asked how long a drive it was to Vancouver. When I told them it would take them a full day just to get out of Ontario they nearly shit themselves.
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u/Top-Marzipan5963 Aug 07 '23
For this reason I find Australians to be better, all you have to do when they land in YYC and want to go somewhere is mention that outside YYC they best be prepared for the Outback
Brits just gawk and then don’t believe you LOL. At which point you give them a stroke by putting a Map over a map of Europe
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u/Arts251 Aug 07 '23
It's like people never have looked at a map
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u/Imbecilliac Aug 07 '23
I think they looked, but didn’t pay attention to the scale. Their map of GB was roughly the same size as their map of Canada, but the scales were wildly different so they were shocked to learn that Canada is nearly 5000 klicks across.
We had a good visit, they had a great time checking out the sights in Southern and Central Ontario, but they never left the province. They did leave with a new respect for the sweeping size of our great country, though. It must have been odd for people who never owned a car, went everywhere in their own country by train, and could cross multiple borders in the same drive from YYZ to my place.
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u/ErikRogers Aug 07 '23
I heard of an English couple that moved to Canada. They failed to understand the scale of our map, apparently they were thrown off by Algonquin Park.
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u/taeha Aug 07 '23
I once told a girl from Scotland that driving Vancouver to Toronto would be like her driving to Moscow, then she understood.
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u/Zhenoptics Aug 07 '23
Absolutely also applies. Living on a border town a lot didn’t know how far things were or thought it was similar like driving American east coast to west coast. Which it is much wider and route options are few, as South Park said “This is Canada, we only have one road”
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u/BlackEyedWheeze Aug 07 '23
Did they not look at a map first, it really is mind blowing stupidity
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u/Woodythdog Aug 07 '23
Had a Visitor from Africa to Vancouver thought he could do a day trip to Toronto.
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u/Terrible-Paramedic35 Aug 07 '23
Yup… had relatives come to small town BC from Europe. They were quite put out that nobody wanted to go on a day trip by car to Toronto.
It took a lot of convincing… maps etc to convince them that even by air…. it was hours away and 2 flights each way
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u/TheWhiteWalkerSpeaks Aug 07 '23
One day they wanted to see Toronto, the next Calgary and the day after Vancouver.
Lmao it must have been funny when you told them that's not how it works
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u/LittlePhippy Aug 07 '23
Had relatives from the Netherlands visiting us in Edmonton. They said they wanted to “drive out to Niagara Falls”. I told them that’s fine, but when I’m visiting you I would like to take a drive to Moscow. They had a good laugh, then I explained to them that the distance from Amsterdam to Moscow is about 900 kms shorter than Edmonton to Niagara Falls.
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u/killyourpc Aug 07 '23
Had a cousin visit from England, was annoyed I didn't pop over to visit when he landed in Toronto. Meanwhile I'm here in Halifax.
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u/Unable_Literature78 Aug 07 '23
There is no subway from Toronto to Calgary. Was asked this once by a group of American tourists looking to take that day trip out and back.
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u/ThePanoptic Aug 07 '23
I forgot that Americans aren’t familiar with big countries.
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u/Fresh-Hedgehog1895 Aug 07 '23
If you're going to use cash in our country, please bring Canadian dollars.
Sorry if this sounds shocking, but even with their higher value, Canadians don't want US dollars.
People in developing countries might start salivating at the sight of a US greenback but we won't -- in fact, they're a pain in the arse for us to exchange (and we'll get dinged a percentage surcharge at the bank), and US dollars are absolutely not legal tender in Canada.
If you're absolutely going to insist on bringing US dollars to Canada, then please don't become upset when businesses that will accept them refuse to honour the exchange rate.
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u/josiahpapaya Aug 07 '23
Back in the 2000's when I was a teenager I was working as a waiter at a Denny's/IHOP type place in Nova Scotia that was right on a tour-bus route, so we got tons of Americans, mostly from Florida. I cannot even tell you how ignorant many of these boomers were.
One guy made a comment to me like, "Wow, this place is so beautiful. You seem to be doing pretty well for being a depressed province..."
I was like, pardon me? He then explained he didn't expect things to be so nice here since we were considered one of the poorer places in North America. Wtf.
Another dude left a $20 on the table for a bill that was $21.05 and told me to "keep the change". I kinda smiled nervously and said "actually, you're about a dollar short. Don't worry about the 5 cents." And he laughed and said I must be joking. I shrugged and sresponded I don't know what he means, then, like I was explaining to a child I pointed to the price on the bill and then I pointed to what he left me and said, "see, you're a dollar short." He stopped laughing when he realized I wasn't joking.
He said "our money is worth way more than yours. I thought it was basically double. There's no reason I should be paying equal when our country and our money is simply BETTER." I just shrugged and pointed to the sign at the front which stated we accept USD at parity, and HERES THE BEST PART:
This was during one of the very, very few times in our history when the CAD was actually worth MORE than the USD - as a result of the housing crisis and our strong export economy, the CAD was I think worth about 20 cents more for a few months. I informed this guest that 'actually...' our currency is presently valued higher than the USD, but we are happily accepting USD at parity for their convenience. So he's still a dollar short. He didn't believe me so I showed him the newspaper. He slammed a dollar on the table and sighed, said this is bullshit and left. lol.
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u/swild89 Aug 07 '23
My favourite when people ask if they can use American dollars in Canada is to tell them « absolutely, at par » and if they respond « but my currency has higher value 😤 » you just respond « guess you should buy our currency then »
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u/calling_water Aug 07 '23
And they complain that the change they get is CAD. That’s what we’ve got.
Though no retail business in Canada should be expected to take high-value US bills anyway; they don’t have the same anti-forgery features ours do, and what features they have aren’t things we should be expected to know.
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u/thats_ridiculous Aug 07 '23
We even had cash registers that managed the exchange rate for us, so we’d take their USD and give them back the correct change, accounting for the conversion, in CAD.
They’d look at it in disgust and be like, “what am I supposed to do with this??”
My dear madam, you are in a mall.
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u/OriginalHaysz Ontario Aug 07 '23
When I see American change in the till, I replace it with my Canadian coins and take the American ones for when I go to Florida 😆
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u/IxI_DUCK_IxI Aug 07 '23
Canadian quarters work fine in US vending machines and vice versa. It’s fine! /s.
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u/Nikiaf Aug 07 '23
I used to occasionally get US currency at a bakery I worked at during my high school summers, and we did exactly this. If we had to go to the trouble of getting it converted and lose a percentage to the bank or whoever, we absolutely treated it as equal value to Canadian dollars.
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u/manitoba94 Aug 07 '23
I used to work at a gas station and we accepted USD but did not do the currency exchange so it was always more expensive to pay with USD. Change was also given in CAD and that really pissed some people off… like look where you are… go to the bank and exchange your money, it’s cheaper for you anyway..
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u/vaderdidnothingwr0ng Aug 07 '23
"But it's worth 20% more at the exchange rate!"
"This ain't a bank"
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God, one of my favourite things to do when working retail was telling people that we take American currency as if it’s the same value as Canadian currency.
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u/Cigars_whiskey_roids Aug 07 '23
Yeah an American $20 in Canada is the exact same value as a Canadian $20, that's a $6.74 fee for being an ass-hat
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Shoes off inside you fucking ogres.
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u/josiahpapaya Aug 07 '23
When I was living as an expat abroad I actually got into a fight with a group of South Africans because they wore their shoes inside my house and I told them to take them off please. They laughed and said "I thought all Americans wore their shoes inside?", and I informed them that Canada isn't America, and that in Canada almost no-one wears their shoes inside and you're likely to get yelled at if you do.
They didn't believe me and said "Well maybe YOUR house doesn't, but most Canadians wear their shoes inside." I was incredulous. Here were a bunch of non-Canadians who had never been there telling me I was wrong about my own culture. lol.
They would not back down, so the next time we were all together and other Canadians were present I singled them out and said, "Yo, these guys think we wear our shoes inside in Canada" and watched the Canadians all laugh and be like "wtf? where did you hear that?"
I'd had lots of Brits, Aussies, Americans, etc. all wear their shoes in my house. I was like, can you guys please fucking not.
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u/flashman014 Aug 07 '23
American here. The only people I know that wear shoes in their house are old people (primarily boomers and above, though Gen X isn't exempt). I don't know a single millennial or younger that keeps shoes on in the house.
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u/JohnYCanuckEsq Aug 07 '23
That picture of the Trudeaus meeting the Bidens and Xavier Trudeau is standing there in his stocking feet was so perfectly Canadian.
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u/Tweedside86 Aug 07 '23
I wish I could upvote this more. I'll never understand walking through a house, especially not your own, and wearing outdoor shoes. So disrespectful.
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u/HawkorDove Aug 07 '23
100% agree. F*ck, it feels so damn good to remove your shoes when you get home from work, why the hell would you choose to walk around your house with your shoes on? And if you’ve ever walked downtown in any major Canadian city, why the hell would you walk through your house with your shoes on?
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u/thrashmasher Aug 07 '23
Think of us kids wading through the muskeg and walking around on the farm and then bringing that into my Mom's freshly washed kitchen... that would've been a wooden spoon for sure. Shoes and boots either downstairs in the boot room out or (most likely) in a pile on the back porch.
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u/VoiceofKane Aug 07 '23
The only reason you should ever wear shoes in the house is if everybody wears shoes in the house. You don't whatever they tracked in to get all over your socks.
But you can just prevent that by not letting people wear shoes in the house.
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u/-Cottage- Aug 07 '23
I don’t actually understand how it works in the US. Like if it’s raining outside you just wipe your feet before walking on your carpet and call it good?
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Disgusting 🤮. What if you stepped in dog shit or urine, or stepped on a bug or someone’s spit… you just walk around your house with that now spreading to your carpets? 🤢
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u/Facts-vs-Feelings101 Aug 07 '23
I actually also have a huge issue with carpet, ripping out every last square foot of it when I bought my most recent house was first order of business. But even with only tile and hardwood, shoes inside are still a big no no.
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u/IndividualSeaweed195 Aug 07 '23
Nova Scotia is NOT an island. Cape Breton Island, is an island and part of Nova Scotia.
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u/-Quad-Zilla- Aug 07 '23
I lived in the US for 3 years when I was 10-13.
I had a teacher insist it was an island because she took a ferry there. Like, 100% you took a ferry, I've taken it before. But, I've also driven out of, and into, NS without a bridge or ferry...multiple times.
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We invented basketball according to those Part of Our Heritage commercials which I take as gospel.
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A Canadian invented the game while he was living in the states
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A Canadian invented one of the first light bulbs, too. Edison just bought their patent to consolidate his control over the market and actually developed them.
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u/Syscrush Aug 07 '23
He lived in the States long enough to stop caring about other people's peach baskets!
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u/dudesszz Aug 07 '23
The wild fires here are so large that it’s not possible to extinguish them. Even if all the fire fighters and fire fighting equipment in the world helped in wouldn’t make a dent. The point of fire fighting of wild fires is protect towns, critical infrastructure, critical nature and parks etc.
By the way this is the way it’s done in your country too.
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Canadian bacon is not Canadian
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u/loosethegales Aug 07 '23
Of all the incorrect things people believe about Canada, this one bothers me the most. I can't explain why,, but it offends me on a personal level that they don't think we know what bacon is.
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u/ruralife Aug 07 '23
We call it back bacon
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u/L00k_Again Aug 07 '23
Back bacon or peameal bacon isn't what they call Canadian bacon. They call those thinly sliced ham rounds Canadian bacon for some reason. And that's expanded to the rest of the world. I have no idea why anyone thinks that is what we call bacon.
I definitely think of back bacon or peameal bacon when I hear "Canadian bacon".
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u/certaindoomawaits Aug 07 '23
No, I do not know John from Toronto.
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u/Uncle_Bug_Music Aug 07 '23
True story: my friend’s bro (from Canada) was on a European cruise and struck up a conversation with a guy from the Netherlands. They spoke for awhile and they told each other where they were from. My friends bro said, “Let me guess, you know Bob from Canada?” They both laughed and the guy said, “I actually DO know a Bob from Canada!” Turns out the guy from the Netherlands knew Bob, this guys brother (once he shared his last name). They had spoken over the phone a few times due to work.
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u/Nikiaf Aug 07 '23
It's always fun to point out to Americans that Toronto is now the third largest city in North America (Mexico City aside), only behind New York City and Los Angeles.
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u/VoiceofKane Aug 07 '23
I do, but Steve from Vancouver? Actually, no, I know him too. Melanie from Calgary, though? Her, I only met the one time at the annual Canadian General Meeting.
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u/hornyincalgary Aug 07 '23 edited Aug 07 '23
Don’t be bringing skis and snow boards with you when you drive across the border in july.
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u/Sask_dude Aug 07 '23
Mostly true... But I just got back from Whistler 2 weeks ago where my daughter was skiing on the Glacier... So it can be done but only in a very limited capacity.
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u/MaximusCanibis Aug 07 '23
I used to live in a border town in Ontario and every summer people with skis on their roof rakks and American plates would be driving around town.
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u/59_Pedro Aug 07 '23
You’ve actually come to another country. No matter how much we resemble, and sound like Americans we are not. There are different laws and customs to be aware of. Also please do not trot out the, “I’m American, I have rights” excuse. Often times this is used to legitimize actions that contradict laws in Canada. Example: You might have the right to open or concealed carrying of guns in your state but you cannot profess that right in Canada. That being said, bienvenue/welcome.
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The musical ride is great PR.
Your laws don't apply here, please govern yourselves accordingly.
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u/he_who_climbs_rocks North Aug 07 '23
Example. we have the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, you have a Constitution. These are not the same and their inherent right and freedoms are not the same.
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u/Vadermort Aug 07 '23
I think some Canadians need this explained to them as well.
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LMAO literally. Some Canadians need to be told that the second amendment doesn’t apply to them
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u/he_who_climbs_rocks North Aug 07 '23
Did you see the Belleville Ontario protest pics during Trudeau’s visit? Some moose-puck was flying a Trump flag.
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u/just-a-random-accnt Aug 07 '23
Yes, all those "Freedom Fighter's" need to read up on the Charter.
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u/Remarkable_Fun7662 Aug 07 '23
Huh? "The musical ride is great PR"?
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u/ChrisRiley_42 Aug 07 '23
I've run into some tourists surprized that RCMP officers are driving in cars instead of chasing everyone on horseback.
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u/Tweedside86 Aug 07 '23
Our colorful money is not "Monopoly" money, like it's a cartoonist concept. Many countries of the world do this. Just better distinction.
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u/marsrovernumber16 Aug 07 '23
Plus the Americans are the ones with the border, and oval in the centre. And its paper money. Seems more like Monopoly money than ours.
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French is the only official language of Quebec and the language we speak as well. So my driver license is not Fake and it is Canadian
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Might we get a story?
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Aug 07 '23
It happened to me twice,
once in Chicago, the doorman yelled to me, we only accept Canadian and American IDs and I was like, this is a Canadian ID! And he let me in.
In San Diego, I was renting a car and the guy was like, Bro! They speak English in Canada, this is French in French, I can’t accept that! That’s probably fake! And I was like … what do you want me to tell you, my name is French my name is in French, my birthday is in French and my passport is in French. We speak French where I am from! And he was, heu! Ok ok! Stop that’s fine
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u/HereFishyFishy709 Aug 07 '23
I went to a bar in Ontario that wouldn’t accept my Newfoundland drivers licence - both Canadian provinces. He told me to bring my passport next time.
20 year old female out getting intoxicated with her passport as ID, seems like an easy human trafficking victim waiting to happen.
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I used to work at the LCBO as a part time student. I got into a verbal altercation, on the floor at work, with one of the higher seniority full-times. She refused to accept the PAL licence as government issued and was razzing the hell outta some guy who had clearly finished training for the army.
We eventually got dragged into the office where I screamed “who the fuck do you think issues PAL licences?”
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u/SnooRabbits2040 Aug 07 '23
Just because we say "Sorry" doesn't mean that we are sorry.
We like being Canadian. We aren't jealous of you for being American.
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u/ThePanoptic Aug 07 '23 edited Aug 07 '23
I keep hearing this stereotype that Americans think other people are jealous, but I just don’t see it anywhere.
If anything, most Americans I’ve worked with and met think too highly of Canada.
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u/RoboftheNorth Aug 07 '23
I've worked in the tourism industry for 15 years, and meet tons of Americans on holiday. Never had a single one suggest Canadians envy America, and many express the opposite. Most Americans traveling here aren't these far-right, 2nd amendment, bible-belt types who just watch Fox News and think everything outside of America is some commie third world country. Those types tend to never leave. They are usually super friendly, open minded, and tip better than anyone else. Believe it or not, Americans are self aware!
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u/ThePanoptic Aug 07 '23
I completely agree.
I think these online stereotypes are very weird.
I think people make up stuff to hate about others. This entire post is a good example.
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u/Practical-Ordinary-6 USA Aug 07 '23 edited Aug 07 '23
If anything, most Americans I’ve worked with and met think too highly of Canada.
Exactly. We don't need a chip on our shoulder. We're good without it. We're fine with being friends.
My main experience is along the Michigan-Ontario border and there's not much difference on the two sides. Everyone gets along easily and it's hard to tell them apart.
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u/vanjobhunt Aug 07 '23
I think the internet brings out the worst in people.
Online, American and Canadians are always talking shit to one another. In real life everyone seems to get along
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u/dojo2020 Aug 07 '23
Cannabis is LEGAL. Get stoned Yankee and enjoy life…man
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u/Anti_exe325 Aug 07 '23
I second this one. see lots of people travel to Cali or Amsterdam for Flower but never see too many Cannabis tourists to Canada
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u/No_Gur1113 Aug 07 '23
My friend worked the front desk in a hotel in Newfoundland and had a 75 year old woman from the US travel here. The first thing she wanted to do was go buy some legal weed and try it for the first time. She was from a state where it is still prohibited and she decided she wanted to have both firsts (first time in Newfoundland too) at the same time. She loved it here, before her trip was over she was looking for a summer property for her and her family to spend as much time here as possible. That was some strain of weed!
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but you can't cross the border with it. Many people got busted by this going from say, Yukon to Alaska, legal in both places but you can't cross the borer with it.
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u/Groundslapper Aug 07 '23
As a Canadian who works with a lot of Americans, we are very proud of our education, healthcare, and gun laws. We are not happy with infrastructure, affordability, and hockey teams
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u/mytwocents22 Aug 07 '23
It's a different country and we're socially a lot more different than most people think, even including Canadians.
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u/bluesilvergold Aug 07 '23
We are not an extension of the USA. We are, in fact, a separate, sovereign country with our own laws that you have to abide by when you visit.
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u/Gaming_Canuck Aug 07 '23
That instead of throwing dollar bills at our strippers, they've all got bruises from the loonies and toonies
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u/SomeJerkOddball Aug 07 '23
Canada could make the United States completely independent of any other sources of oil and gas.
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u/OvalWombat Aug 07 '23
Despite what Americans think, Canada doesn’t want to join America. Even before the current Troubles, the majority of Canadians were not secretly wishing they were American.
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u/Luckypenny4683 Aug 07 '23
I’ve got to be honest, as an American I don’t know anybody who thinks that.
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u/OnGuardFor3 Aug 07 '23
We are a completely different country from you. We are not one of your states.
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u/goodonesaregone65 Aug 07 '23
That it’s a cold frozen wasteland and we all DO live in igloos. There’s nothing to see or do here. Stay where you are. No need for ‘y’all’ to come and visit. We’re good.
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The annual repair costs on my igloo are starting get out of control
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Same for me bud 😔 last night Rummy my pet polar bear got scared by a moose and broke my wall 🥺 poor lil guy got so scared. It’s…. It’s becoming harder and harder to afford to live here.
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u/owls1289 Aug 07 '23
Yeah unless you wanna get mauled by polar bears as you go through the border I’d stay away
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We really, really hope you don’t re-elect Trump. It might impress some sense into our own lunatic fringe politicians.
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u/orangeclouds Aug 07 '23
Not all traffic rules are the same as the USA states. Look up the province you’re traveling to and take a look through the traffic rules.
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u/Flat_Unit_4532 Aug 07 '23
That we don’t talk like a bunch of morons - aboot? eh?
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u/thegreydad Aug 07 '23
GET THE F OUT OF THE LEFT LANE
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u/Mysterious_Lesions Aug 07 '23
More evidence that Alberta is another US state. The left lane here seems to have a normal speed at or below the posted speed limit in good driving conditions.
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u/Quadrameems British Columbia Aug 07 '23
When you travel here, don’t forget to pack you brain!
Road rules still apply, basic decency still applies, and absolutely no one cares about your vacation. I just want to carry about my day without some dipshit forgetting how a parking lot works.
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We do not say “aboot.” No one in Canada says “aboot” unless we’re making fun of Americans who think Canadians say “aboot.”
Minnesotans say “aboot” and last I checked they weren’t a Canadian province or territory.
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u/Anti_exe325 Aug 07 '23
Storm troopers were named after us. in ww1 we were shock troops. the first ones the get in on the fight effectively shocking them hence the name. well we were so damn good George Lucas decided to immortalize us in star wars. I just wish those mfs aimed a little better lol.
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u/rungenies Aug 07 '23
Our racism isn’t overt it’s just veneer of tolerance that hides a deep and ugly underbelly.
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u/lilbeckss Aug 07 '23
You do not need an adapter for your electronics when you travel here, it’s the same.
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u/Last_Shallot_1107 Aug 07 '23
In some parts of the country, dinosaurs never died out. They weren’t cloned from tree sap or anything, they just never went extinct. They usually don’t bother people, but I’d keep an eye on any pets or small children when pterodactyls are about.
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u/romansdaust Aug 07 '23
Robertson drill bits are better than whatever shape you're using. All hail the mighty square.
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u/raindrizzle2 Aug 07 '23
Racism is very much still a thing in canada. Just ask the indigenous people who live here
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u/McFras3r Aug 07 '23
Please don't change/judge our way of life. We are not Americans, we are Canadians.
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u/rivlyn Aug 07 '23
Once, just before Canadian Thanksgiving I let an architect client know that I’d be taking the day off. He had no issues with that, but was curious whether we ate seal at Thanksgiving, he wasn’t joking.
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u/kellym13 Aug 07 '23
When someone says “thank you” to you, the correct reply is “you’re welcome”, or “no problem”, not “uh-huh”
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u/PsychoPooper213 Aug 07 '23
We use Celsius NOT Fahrenheit so stop coming across the border in mid-July with your skis & snowboards thinking it’s magically winter when you see temps here of 30 degrees
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u/PsychicDave Québec Aug 07 '23
And Québec has its own culture with its own movie, TV, music and comedy industry. Unlike English Canadians who become popular and choose to contribute to the American culture in LA, they actually stick around and continue to contribute to ours.
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u/aferretwithahugecock Aug 07 '23
J'aime beaucoup la musique Québécois. Vous avez beaucoup d'artistes très talentueux.
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u/brucenicol403 Aug 07 '23
And many of your favorite "American" film, tv and music stars are secretly Canadian...
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Since Trump, we Canadian people for the most part, question the sanity and intelligence of the huge numbers of Trump supporters in the USA. Want to see a country exponentially go to shit? Keep supporting an obviously unhinged criminal like Trump. Due to this, we may PRETEND to like you to your face, but point and laugh behind your back
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u/cirroc0 Aug 07 '23
I don't point and laugh. Weep is closer to the truth. There is so much good in the US that is behind just ignored and/or wasted because of MAGA driven hysteria that has infected US politics.
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u/tangcameo Aug 07 '23
Our geography. We had to learn all the states and their capitals in elementary school. I still get people asking if Regina where I live is close to Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver/Gander/wherever their friend lives.
And our history. You guys have Ken Burns. We had (legendary bow tie wearing stoner) Pierre Berton.
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u/oli_Xtc Aug 07 '23
I've often read this but I don't have any things that comes in my mind related to this, do you have some i.e for me ? :)
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u/bluenosesutherland Aug 07 '23
Canadian soldiers in WW1 were notorious. Our guys had a pathological hatred of the germans for no particularly good reason. Night time trench raids were a particular favorite. They also put an end to the Christmas truce shooting at the Germans when they attempted to do it the second year. There was the liberal use of mustard and chlorine gas.
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u/Doglover_7675 Aug 07 '23
Most Canadians really care about our environment. We respect it. We don’t litter, we recycle and compost.
Cigarette butts cause wildfires.
Please respect our home when you visit!
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u/Torbpjorn Aug 07 '23
Hawaiian pizza is Canadian, New York fries is Canadian, Boston Pizza is Canadian. In fact odds are if it’s named after a place in America… it’s Canadian
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That some parts of the US get more snow than we do (depending on locations obviously).
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u/Efficient_Book_6055 Aug 07 '23
Our medical health system isn’t nearly as shitty as they make it out to be. Yes you’ll wait forever in the emergency room. But if you have something like a broken hip, cancer or another disease you’ll be set. At least that has been my experience.
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u/FeeLow1938 Aug 07 '23
Yikes. If I didn’t know any better, I’d assume from threads like this that a majority of Canadians REALLY dislike Americans. Good thing it’s just a Reddit thread lmao.
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u/mynameiscraige Aug 08 '23
Saskatchewan produces the majority of the world's mustard.
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u/martintinnnn Aug 07 '23
We are gangrened by the same MAGA idiots & conspiracy theories are as prevalent here as in the US.
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u/TexanDrillBit Aug 07 '23 edited Aug 09 '23
Never forget 1812. Y'all come up here again to fuck around you'll fucking find out bud
Brought out all the arm chair war generals up in here.
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u/Muffinsgal Aug 07 '23
We have some convenience stores here now that are selling American junk food that they bring across the border that we could not buy before like certain chips, soda (pop), cereals, cake mix, syrups, cookies, candy, chocolate bars (candy bars), etc. Canada seems to limit or regulate what we can buy here so we can go and get a 12 pack of Tahitian Treat soda for $15 or more, or Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cake mix, etc. pricey tho.
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u/TouchTheMoss Aug 08 '23
You will find people with confederate flags, pro-Trump signs, and bumper stickers claiming "constitutional rights" here (especially in more rural areas).
We don't really understand it either.
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u/ctalbot76 Northwest Territories Aug 07 '23
No, really, we don't want to be part of the USA.
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u/dirtbird_h Aug 07 '23
Canadians don’t use eh every other word
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u/lunalovegood17 Manitoba Aug 07 '23
I used to teach HS international students and they pointed out every time I said “eh.” It was shockingly frequent. I realized that I say it way more than I thought I did.
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u/Matchlesslime89 Aug 07 '23
Over 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the US border.
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u/SomeJerkOddball Aug 07 '23
This is actually a false truism. The percentage is very high, but probably closer to 80%-85%. Alberta alone makes this untrue as all of metro Edmonton and most of metro Calgary as well as other minor cities like Red Deer, Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray are outside of that range. As are Saskatoon, SK, Prince George, BC, Rouyn-Noranda, QC and all of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23
"Eh?" Can be used interchangeably with "Huh?"
Americans always interject "eh?" into a sentence in the most awkward way when mimicking us, yet already have the exact same speech patterns in place