Hope this is allowed
As a guy with a very heavy Ottawa Valley drawl, I often get mistaken for being American. The accent only gets heavier when I’m tired so you can imagine how it must be after a long international flight.
We never liked it. In school every canadian geography class HAS to go through this :
Kid: “But miss, if America is the continent why are USA citizen called Americans?”
Teacher: "Because they’re arrogant ego monsters that believe the world revolves around their asshole, Billy. "
My take is that they did not have creativity to come up with a name for their country, it’s just a bunch of states in America; so there’s little choice of a practical thing to call them
What’s wrong with Usaians? For people from the USA?
I’ve always answered “Fighting words” when someone asked if was American. (I live in Australia, and the assumption that my accent is American always irked me)
These days people who do ask where I am from do so by asking if I am Canadian, a sharp contrast to when I moved here over a decade ago. I guess some other Canadians have dropped the polite corrections and gone straight to growling.
Came to Canada over 24 years ago… called some Canadians “Americans” by mistake, they did not like it hehehehe
Some of us were ahead of the curve, I guess. My entire family has been the second version my whole life.
Funny, 2002 was the year they bombed us in Afghanistan.
They are Americans though. Same as Mexicans, Brazilians, Costa Ricans, Chileans, and so on: all Americans. Their southern neighbors are just USAians.
I hear this a lot from South Americans. You can’t force people against their culture. If you are in Canada, “American” means “man who outruns wisdom”.
we are North Americans. not americans. we’re Canadians.
Do you realise what you’re writing? North American. You’re American. You’re just not US American. Don’t let the USAians claim American for themselves. They don’t represent the peoples of 2 continents.
Sigh.
Some folks just don’t understand set theory, right?
Come to Canada and try it bud, see how far you get. Try it in Mexico also, there they’ll likely you laugh at you and call you an idiot, here you’ll be lucky if you don’t get knocked in the throat.
It’s been like this forever. We’re nice but ONE thing we don’t like is being mistaken for Americans. before we were polite about it but now not so much.
Wrong we are not Americans, we happen to reside in North America but are Canadians, so to be correct you would need to say North American. Nobody would call a Brazilian an American, you would be laughed at scornfully and small children would throw rotten produce at you.
No you’re wrong bud. I’m Canadian and he’s right.
We are Canadian and American.
Same as a Spaniard is Spanish and European.
Who’s cares if some take offense to the association of “American” to United Statesican. That’s their problem.
Take America Back Again.We are North Americans not Americans, As a Canadian i Genuinely look forward to the downfall and destruction of the United States.
North American. You are American. US Americans just claimed the word “American” because they think they’re the center of the world. Don’t let them. They are USAians.
Are you for real? 😆
North American is America.Sure… death to America (USA), and all that…
But did you consider that the statement, “death to America” might have been part of the psyop to engage the Americas into siding against Muslim nations in the middle east?
Try not to be subject to the propaganda.
The latter response was always the response.
nah we always answered with a politely scoffed “no”
If we just said no it was “fuck no” or “do you want to take this outside?”
It’s not like our opinions of them have changed. We’ve always viewed it as an insult.
nah, my opinion has definitely changed. I’m disgusted that so many people voted for this shit, and that so many didn’t vote against it.
but to be fair, I’m disgusted by that in Canada as well.
You’re disgusted that they voted for someone who embodies everything we think Americans are?
I think the only US stereotype he’s missing is incest but he’s definitely made comments which fit.
Pity Mbin doesn’t support commenting on Loops directl.
Maybe because it’s a link and not a cross post?
I dunno. Why you put the link into the search bar, it finds it, but when you click on “reply” I get on a page with “404”. So I can see the information about the post, but can’t open the post directly.
