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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| ekul wrote: |
| In defence of the yanks wearing a flag on your bag is much more cringe worthy than having a flag on your home. |
+1
And the flag is usually put up only for holidays (memorial day, 4th of July). In Chicago the biggest flag wavers are the Mexicans and Polish. There's like 3 or 4 holidays every year where Polish people put the flags on car hoods, wave them out of the windows, hang them everywhere, etc. But, again, it's only for holidays. Canadians wear the flag on their backs everywhere they go. I cringe every time I see it. |
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livinginkunsan
Joined: 02 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| ekul wrote: |
| In defence of the yanks wearing a flag on your bag is much more cringe worthy than having a flag on your home. |
I have met numerous americans who have the American flag flying proudly in their home.. seriously wtf? |
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shifter2009
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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I've got to second Vanislander. Canucks do wear the flag on their bag but if you go to the US, the flag is every where. Canucks don't really do this do much. Although we do wear it alot.
It;s a sort of personal sense of patriotism mostly centered on the fact that we live next to the US, we walk and talk about the same, we buy most of the same stuff, watch American movies (with little of our own), love a sport which has been bought by Americans yet it only the 4th most popular sport in the US. We do feel like the little brother who never made us much money, but loved life and had lots of friends.
We do have entire beer comercials dedicated to this odd form of patriotism centered on not being American.
My father feels he has to send me things with maple leaves on them. I have bandanas, t-shirts, patches (on my wallet too...thanks dad), maple syrup.....god the list goes on.
If you are in the Canuck military....it's the cool thing to get a maple leaf tat.
We are dorks about the leaf. It's true. |
Pretty much! Through our entire history, American Revolution onward, we've been defining ourselves partly by our not being American. I wouldn't say it's anti-Americanism necessarily (although sometimes it turns into that), it's more just a way for us to say "hey we're different!" |
There is an honest answer. I like or even love 95% of Canadians. Their our American twins with an unhealthy obsession with Tim Hortons and ice skating, but the 5% who have that whole "Americans are stupid and think we live in igloos so I better make sure people know I am not like them" thing going, jackasses. Not that I am saying everyone with the patch is like that.... |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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| ekul wrote: |
| In defence of the yanks wearing a flag on your bag is much more cringe worthy than having a flag on your home. |
I suppose, but it's not like the flag on the house is there to say you are not Canadian. It's a clear patriotism to a nation state (a nation state that does demand a lot from their citizens...esp soldiers in Iraq) while the flag on the bag is more of a personal statement of who you are or where you come from. For Canadians its more about not being American. Honestly, who wants to be caught up in all the nonsense the American government gets their country into?
If I were American I wouldn't wear my country's flag anywhere outside the homeland. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| earthbound14 wrote: |
| ekul wrote: |
| In defence of the yanks wearing a flag on your bag is much more cringe worthy than having a flag on your home. |
If I were American I wouldn't wear my country's flag anywhere outside the homeland. |
If you do at home you look like a douche or a redneck.
I wouldn't be caught dead doing that. |
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tonyvu
Joined: 30 May 2008
Location: busan - a view of dadaepo beach from my office window
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:05 am Post subject: |
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would anyone get on me if i had a decepticon patch on my messenger bag?  |
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friendoken
Joined: 19 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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I remain constantly amazed that this banal topic keeps popping up. Why does it bother people - seemingly American people - so much when they see a Cdn flag on a back pack? It's really not that big a deal.
Having said that, and being Canadian, I think it is as much definition by exclusion (I'm Canadian , I'm not American) more than anything. It's only since Obama has been in charge that yanks could be outwardly proud of their country anyway. At least since Clinton was in charge anyway. The Republicans seem to alienate the world's opinion on a regular basis. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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I admit to have a patch on my bookbag when the Iraq War started.
No Roots clothing though. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: Is it a pride thing with Canadians to put a patch on |
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| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| Just curious, I've noticed this a lot. |
And where do you hang out? I haven't seen one in years. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| friendoken wrote: |
I remain constantly amazed that this banal topic keeps popping up. Why does it bother people - seemingly American people - so much when they see a Cdn flag on a back pack? It's really not that big a deal.
Having said that, and being Canadian, I think it is as much definition by exclusion (I'm Canadian , I'm not American) more than anything. It's only since Obama has been in charge that yanks could be outwardly proud of their country anyway. At least since Clinton was in charge anyway. The Republicans seem to alienate the world's opinion on a regular basis. |
Because I had not seen it before and it was on my mind. I would rather get some fresh input, rather than digging up old threads. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:48 am Post subject: Re: Is it a pride thing with Canadians to put a patch on |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| PatrickBateman wrote: |
| Just curious, I've noticed this a lot. |
And where do you hang out? I haven't seen one in years. |
I've just noticed it a lot around my job. |
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beercanman
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Goon-Yang
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Duh
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| Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:14 am Post subject: |
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| earthbound14 wrote: |
It's an attempt to say "I'm not American!"
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Yep...and usually it's the American's saying it. |
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kiknkorea
Joined: 16 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| shifter2009 wrote: |
| Their our American twins with an unhealthy obsession with Tim Hortons |
Healthy and Tim Hortons just don't go together.
Not that I haven't had bad coffee in Korea, just nothing approaching Tim Hortons in that capacity! |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| earthbound14 wrote: |
If I were American I wouldn't wear my country's flag anywhere outside the homeland. |
Really? In the summer I wear my stars and stripes bikini, while roller-skating, often eating ice cream, with my long, brown hair in pigtails. |
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