Hi,
I for one am sick and tired of off the wall Anti-Americanism. I’m also a Canadian who happened to live in America for a year. Contrary to the stereotype of brashness and rudeness I found Americans, in general, remember their manners and are, in general, good Samaritans.
I flew down to Logan Airport from the Maritimes to make a connection flight to Albany and a family from New York state not only offered me directions but offered to buy me dinner as well. Man, woman and two kids. I took up their offer and they were really sweet people. It’s one of the few acts of random kindness I ever received, not from my fellow Canuckleheads but from those “evil” Americans.
In Albany one of those “evil” co-worker Americans took an evening from his schedule and helped me move from a smaller apartment to a bigger one and expected nothing in return.
When I was back home going to university an American from the South stayed in the room across from me. Nice guy with no pretensions. And, ummm, good manners.
I find some of my fellow Canadians give me a bad name, sure there are ignorant, rude Americans, but I’ll bet on a per capita basis there are way more rude, ignorant Canadians.
I have also travelled extensively through the USA and never once felt personally insulted. Canada, uh, a lot.
You see, when Canadians aren’t bashing each others’ regions they are busy bashing their guarantor of protection…the USA.
I think a lot of Canadians would rather speak Russian or German than English because of it wasn’t for being in the backyard of the US of A, Canadians would most likely be speaking one of those languages. There would be no Canada.
I just want to say that America has done some stupid things…we ALL do stupid things. It just so happens when you are a country that is as powerful as the US, stupid things get noticed.
But what about when Americans offer Atlanta-based CDC services. When Canadians got sick from SARS, who did they call first? Ottawa?
When someone needs to be rescued from thugs, who can get aid there the fastest? Canada?!!!!! Only if they hitch a ride with…American equipment.
This is one Canadian who will always consider America a friend. I am grateful to live beside a country who values the individual and who produces a good and kind people for the most part. If the US is as evil as some Canadians say, well we’d be singing the Star-spangled banner right now.
- Written by Troy (Reproduced with his permission)
I am an American that lived in Canada for a year and I will agree with you that Canadians are more rude and less polite. It seems like there is a lack of courtesy in Canada. With that said, some of the most evil, and vicious people are Americans. I think that both the nicest people and the meanest are American. Fortunately, the evil ones are only about 30%. I also don’t believe that America is trying to protect or aid Canada out of good will. America will defend Canada only to defend its own interests. The nice Americans that you meet at Walmart are very different from the Americans that are running politics. Those are the evil and vicious ones I’m talking about.
When ANY country does something nice to another country, it is ALWAYS out of their own best interests and not about the other country they’re “helping”. That’s not just an American phenomenon.
Thank you for commenting.