[ SECRET POST #2644 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2644 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

NS, NF, etc.

[ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ]

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. I'm sensing a little bitterness coming down here from the Great White North. Calm yourself, no one's expecting you to be as awesome as the US.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Not everyone can have this much freedom. Hell, a bald eagle just flew through my window and dropped a tiny American flag on my lap. We can't expect other countries to live up to that.

not OP

[(Anonymous)]

Also north of the 49th parallel here...I find it particularly hilarious when I use Commonwealth spelling, refer to clearly Canadian concepts, and still get taken for American. Maybe OP is demonstrating typical Canadian patience? Long fuse that takes awhile to light (because it's so cold LOL) but once you set them off, best head for the hills...?

Or I could be way off-base, it's just a troll secret....

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm expecting them to be more awesome than the U.S., and then I feel let down when they aren't. :pout:

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry! We'll try to do better!

[applemagpie]

Hey, we have our maple syrup, poutine, and hockey ok. You know how really important all that stuff is

[(Anonymous)]

Vermont and New Hampshire's maple syrup > Canadian maple syrup. Sorry, your maple trees weren't WATERED WITH THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS.

[greenvelvetcake]

2011 Stanley Cup

never forget

[(Anonymous)]

HEY I make my own maple syrup down here in the US of A because I have maples in my yard and I tap them because I am awesome and know things SO YOU SHUT UP ABOUT THIS "WE HAVE OUR MAPLE SYRUP" THING. I have my maple syrup too, yo! And it's well and truly mine because I literally made it myself!

Also I live in a state with a banging hockey team! HA!

(You got me on the poutine, though. So go you on that front)

*applauds*

[(Anonymous)]

*still applauding*

[(Anonymous)]

Is this about using "American" as a demonym for the United States? Yes, we are aware that "America" encompasses two continents. But until "United Statesian" becomes an accepted term, we're going to use "American" to talk about the U.S.

[diet_poison]

I think "Statesian" or "Statesman/Stateswoman" should be a term.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's about people who use "North American" as though it's synonymous with "U.S. American".

N!S

[(Anonymous)]

I'm getting some serious Hetalia!Canada vibes from this...

Re: N!S

[(Anonymous)]

Who?

Re: N!S

[(Anonymous)]

I ... what was I talking about?

[silvereriena]

Does this even happen a lot? I mean, I've never personally experienced it. Although this reminds me of a story a friend told me about a field trip her high school class took to Germany and how the waiters at this one restaurant were pretty rude to them, thinking that they were Americans. Once they said showed that they were Canadian, everyone got a lot nicer, and the restaurant band even started playing the Good Old Hockey Game.

Anyway OP, you are not demonstrating your Canadian-ness enough. Whenever we get mistaken for Americans, we're supposed to apologize profusely and then correct them before apologizing some more for correcting them.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Canadian who worked in a UK call centre. The number of times that I had somebody get snotty with me for being American until I corrected them, and then the became super friendly was ridiculous. It really was the most effective diffusion I had in my arsenal. I had a supervisor listening in to one of those calls for an evaluation by coincidence, and when it was over she came to my desk.

"I was listening to your last call. Did he really...?"
"Yep."
"Like really?"
"Yep."
"And that.. happens often?"
"More than you would think."
"Okay then... good job.. You handled that well." And off she walked, shaking her head and muttering.

[(Anonymous)]

This actually makes me really sad, and I wonder how I would handle it.

As much as it shames me to say, I think I would cry. I think I would actually cry (this is why I can't really do customer service jobs).

I didn't ask to be born where I was. Fuck you for making me feel bad about it, imaginary customer. :(

[applemagpie]

I've had people in other places act way more friendlier to me once they learned I was Canadian, not American. Sometimes those stereotypes really do work in our favour. And everybody not American likes to hate on America it seems. You get to be part of the in-'not American' crowd.

[making_excuses]

It isn't unique to Canada/America, you get treated better as a Norwegian than a Swede in Denmark, but the Danes aren't always that clear on who is Swedish or Norwegian as our languages sound similar* and that like for you is based on stereotypes.

*To them...

[(Anonymous)]

O god I had that a few times in reverse. People that thought that I was German and then being a lot nicer when I tell them I am Dutch.

n!s

[(Anonymous)]

This is always so funny to me. The smaller country always hates being mistaken for the bigger country while the bigger country doesn't give a shit.

Re: n!s

[(Anonymous)]

canada's bigger, bro