[ SECRET POST #2644 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2644 ⌋

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Comments

[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.