Around ~2008 I was in a Barcelona hostel and met a guy there. He started speaking and I interrupted him excitedly…“Oh you’re American!!”.

He looked down…the weight of pain curdled the air around us. You could sense deep sorrow welling beneath the surface of this man. He paused for what felt like an eternity to compose himself,

He looked up with a piercing, but harrowing, stare and said “No, I’m Canadian…”

I’ll never forget that moment. That sheer depth of emotion is something I haven’t experienced before or since.

Did I silently murder this poor Canadian soul? How do Canadians cope with the mistaken identity?

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    1 - it’s like Australia vs UK, if you aren’t around it then you can’t spot the difference. Look up Nova Scotians talking and Texans talking then play them back to back. There are some differences

    2 - Weird

    3 - We banter and watch British comedies. Don’t really care for American comedies

    4 - how is that not different? If you were comparing us to Finland it might be a similarity

    5 - ?

    6 - No we don’t

    How, why?

    The other guy promises to favour India in immigration and give express citizenship to those people