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I have been calling Canadian soybean and corn farmers at work. They are *so amazingly nice* and friendly and helpful and upbeat. Nothing like the surly son's of bitches that i was calling last week, the American corn farmer. Jayzus.

That's... actually just a true stereotype. Canadians really are polite as a people. With the exception of Japan, every other country I've visited seems rude by comparison.

I usually don't like saying stereotypes about Canada are true, but yeah that's just how things are done around here. You say thank you and you're welcome and you hold doors and try to be helpful, or you're probably not going to have a good time interacting with people.

Usually, if we call and someone is retired, or they rent out (sharecrop) their farm, we ask if we could have the name/number of the person who is now the 'decision maker' for the farm. Most American farmers are like 'no', with a side dish of utter paranoia. They also won't let you finish a sentence and one guy yelled at my fellow phone monkey to 'get a job!!'.

The Canadian farmers are just totally happy to give out the info, chat about it, tell you it's Farm Show week, commiserate on the weather.... It's so nice, not to have people hang up on you. :)

I say - embrace the stereotype! 'Ugly American' is all too true, and i wish it weren't.

I try to be a nice when I'm on the phone with someone who is talking to me in a professional capacity. You got any tips other than being forthcoming with information and saying hello/please/thank you for your service?

If they say 'i have to talk to the (name) (which is generally the name on the screen we're reading off of) to take you off the list' - i really do. We have to talk to that person and tell them why we're calling and get in one 'your opinions are very valuable/we are paying 100 dollars as a token of appreciation'. If they hear that, and still say no, we're done, off the list.

But if the spouse/partner/whoever insists that 'they' wouldn't be interested and 'don't call here again/take us off the list'....we can't. Very few of the jobs allow that kind of agency - they want the person to say no, and then we're done. A lot of wives, sad to say, get really snippy and snotty and 'you can take my word for it!!' and yeah, i can, i know, but...the company can't, so sorry.

Give me one minute to read my little spiel and we're done!

Thanks for the info! I'll keep that in mind. :)

Canadians aren't saints (because people are usually assholes no matter where they live, it's a fact), but I do feel like there is a higher level of ingrained politeness up here. Do people in other countries shout out 'thank you' to the bus driver when they're getting off the bus? I feel like it must just be such a stereotypical Canadian thing.

Haha no I hope it didn't sound like I was claiming we were. Canadians are certainly assholes about some things, as a rule. Compared to some parts of the USA we completely suck at driving too.

I've never heard anyone else do it anywhere, but I'll shout thank you to the bus driver if he or she said hello to me when I got on.

No, didn't think you were, I was just clarifying that I didn't think that.
I hear it all the time on the bus over here. It just seems super polite, although I do it sometimes too.

Here where I live that happens (south of Brazil). There are some special lines where you get on and off through the front door and they don't have a guy to collect money, so you interact with the driver. It's pretty usual to thank and/or wish the driver a good day when leaving. Also very usual in buses that go from city to city.

I had no idea there were special bus lines in Brazil. The only thing I know from my classmate (who is from there) is that there's a joke that the reason the buses in brazil don't need seatbelts is because you can't move when you get in them anyway hahaha. Do they really pack you into them or is she just having me on?

Yeah, these special lines are usually smaller buses or even vans, but sometimes they're regular-sized buses with more comfort.

Oh yeah, really, really crowded buses are certainly a thing in medium and big cities. Lots of people standing in the passage, nearly on top of each other. Of course it depends on the time of day, line and city. Here I get a lot less of that than in my home city, which is a lot smaller.

Ah, that sounds nice

Oh my god, I forgot about the thanking bus drivers thing. I was out of Canada way too long.

I say thank you to the bus driver, but I'm also in Western NY, so practically Canada anyway. :P

Thanking bus drivers isn't normal elsewhere?

We do not have bus drivers where I live.

I see a lot of people greeting bus drivers as they get on the bus, and a fair amount of the time someone will lower the wheel chair ramp so the bus driver doesn't have to get up.

Not a lot of "thank you" at the end, because you're not usually allowed to get off at the front of the bus unless it's the final stop or an especially large station where the bus stops twice (once for getting off, once for getting on). Yelling through the bus would be too awkward for north Germans. :)

I think about 30% of the people here say thank you when they get off. We're sort of close to Canada too, though.

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