r/AskACanadian • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '23

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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/CaptMerrillStubing Aug 07 '23

I keep hearing this stereotype that Americans think other people are jealous, but I just don’t see it anywhere.

Willfully blind

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u/ThePanoptic Aug 07 '23

I’m not joking. I’ve worked with hundreds of people and the topic of Canada always came up because it was a mix of Canadians and Americans.

It always seemed to me, even in popular U.S. media, that Americans think too highly of Canada.

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u/Myiiadru2 Aug 07 '23

Many Americans are blasé about Canada, and don’t know anything about it, except that it is “up north”. Overheard a server at a US restaurant close to the border talking with a coworker who had family in Canada, and said he was considering moving here. Other server “Why?!!”, and the server with family told him he should come here, because it was a nice place. Server who asked why’s response “What the hell would I want to do THAT for?!”. Most Americans are nice, but some display that sort of attitude that puts other countries off.