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[Dorman]

Spidey, you're my hero!

As far as it goes I'm from Canada. When dealing with Americans I call myself a Canadian, and when dealing with people from places like Toronto I refer to myself as a Nova Scotian or Maritimer.

So, let me throw some generalizations out there and feed the fire... firstly, many Canadians might describe American's as ignorant. Before jetting to Japan I spent two years working for a U.S. based company and consequently dealt with some lovely and also awful people across that country. In Japan, I also work with alot of folks from the US, and most of my buddies here are from the states.

Sadly to say, the majority of Canadians I've met here have been...shall we say....less than desirable individuals. The majority of these individuals come from what Maritimers like to call "Upper" Canada. Not based on geography, but by the noses pointed in the air. These people have the mentality that Canada starts and ends with Ontario, and if you're from the Maritimes (the have-not provinces) then you're not equal to them. I'll steer away from politics and the economy, and just say that I definitely believe that the Atlantic provinces are from a different breed than those from Hog-Town. One that's less condescending, narrow-minded, and ignorant. SHAME ON YOU ALL!!!!hehehe

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The preceeding view and opinion IS a generalization and was meant to stoke the fire. It's a semi-serious jaded view of the up and coming beating of the next Ontarian who gives me shit when I'm drunk.
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Now......Newfoundland, that's the province east coasters bash!

[Captain Onigiri]

Can't you Canadians just get along!? I love Canada! (My informed opinion is based on driving through Canada from the US border to the Alaskan border four times ) It's great because everything is in metric which was the only thing I was taught in school because I was in grade school during the Carter years. (For those of you who aren't history buffs, the US was going to transfer to the metric system during the late 70's but then backed out) Although trying to convert litres to US gallons and convert Can$ to US$ at the service station made my head explode. If I ever got thrown out of the United States, I hope I get to be Canadian. I'd better stop gushing about Canada or some patriotic American will tell me if I like it so much why don't I move there. You would think you would get along just so you can huddle together during those nasty winters. Which reminds me, four months out of the year Florida will need to be taken out of the Southern states and put with Canada because of all the snowbirds.

[DoctorPayne]

Oh boy, Ontarians or Upper Canadians are like the Yankees of baseball or the Man Utd. of soccer. Everyone outside of Ontario has a very negative view of us and that's why its always fun to play the part of arrogant Torontonian (even though I'm actually from just outside the big city). Personally, I've only met really nice people from the east and I hope to go out there some time. But if you can't make fun of yourself than you have no right to make fun of others. People shouldn't be so bloody sensitive all the time! I am actually of Welsh and Jamaican background (yes, I'm an immigrant) and believe me, making fun of the Brits and Jamaicans is great fun!

[wintersweet]

[blue jay]

It's interesting..up north..in Northern Canada..they refer to the rest of Canada as the South..where as in Manitoba, which is really in the middle of Canada, they refer to themselves as the West.

Even weirder is that when I watch the Weather Channel here in Vancouver, they begin with the weather forecast with the Maritimes, then Quebec and Ontario, then the Prairie Provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) and the finally they do BC. Which is kind of stupid, since the weather patterns go west..

[Captain Onigiri]

When I lived in Alaska, we referred to non-Alaska as "The Outside". Almost Japanese in it's outlook.

[spidey]

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[Bat Girl]

All this talk of dividing up your home country made me think of how my country Iraq would be divided up. Most likely it will divide up into massive civil war, so this is more of a prodection. The Kurds would take one part, the Sunnis would take the rest. Even though the Shiite are the majority they have never ran Iraq and probably never will.

[PAULH]

[cgozun]

United States is divided into these parts. East Coast, South, West Coast, Central, and Mid-West. In my experience, South and Mid-West talk the most unique English. East Coast talk fast. West Coast talk slow. Central is probably somewhere between those.

[katk]

I don't know there are bad accents all over the US each region has its own, some people it is very bad and others you can't notice, i called alumni for different schools for fundraising and most people didn't think i was from the south, one man got mad at me bc i DIDN'T sound southern and said "things are chaning down there!" anyways, when calling diff parts of the US there are some BAD accents, parts of new england are horrible, there are some very red neck people outside of the cities up north and mid western accent is very distinctive... I don't pick up a huge accent from people in the extreme west kinda neutral, but you can't say that the whole south uses incorrect speech.
Oh if you want to get technical, if you go to the south there are evidently different accents from diff parts of the states, becing from atlanta i don't know what these are nor do i care.
Oh and florida (minus the southern tip) not too much of an accent, it is almost not considered a southern state by southerners only bc it is not "traditionally southern" oh and Arkansas i consider southern, mainly bc Arkansas razerbacks are part of the western divsion of the SEC (south eastern conference)

[bearcat]