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[Hollywoodaction]

[Hollywoodaction]

[canuckistan]

Ya-ta-Boy wrote:

[Porter_Goss]

[Kuros]

These kinds of threads are rarely very instructive. Nobody learns anything new about the world. People just vent.

Some of the other threads get heated, but at least people are encouraged to throw out links and get some discussion about facts going.

My advice, Richard, is do not create these kinds of threads in the future. Seriously, you're not doing anyone any favors, and although you are new, these sentiments and these topics are unfortunately not.

[4 months left]

[AbbeFaria]

This board is rampantly anti-American. Articles left and right about America's evil policies, it's evil wars, it's evil president, it's evil religions, it's evil people, etc. etc. etc. and ad naseum. Most of the time us Americans just shrug it off, but I, and some of my other American brothers/sisters, from time to time say enough is enough and just let loose. Before I came to Korea I never really gave Canada a second thought. Not in any meaningful or negative way. It was a place I wanted to visit one day because I hear it's beautiful, but beyond that, it was totally out of my mind (unless the Blues were playing the Maple Leafs, the Oilers or the Flames��but I've sinced stopped watching hockey).

Now however, everytime I meet a new white person I have to wonder "Is this person a Canadian and are they going to launch in to a long and ignorant diatribe about my country." I had to literally bit my tounge at my local watering hole last week when a Canadian started going on off on a friend of mine about how horrible America was and how much we're damaging the rest of the world and the unbridled evil of Bill O'Reilly. To listen to him you'd think that O'Reilly is the cause of everything evil from the itch you get in the middle of your back that you can't scratch to cancer. Where do some Canadians get the b-alls to go up to a total stranger and insult their land, culture, society and beliefs and then have the extra set of b-alls in reserve to get offended when the person takes offense.

The audacity of it boggles the mind. I mean seriously, where do you people (Canadians) get off. I don't care if "these people are not representatives of real Canadians". You are the face of your country that most people in Korea see. The majority of other Americans I've met are almost rediculously well-behaved. They know that to some peoples their country is not the most popular at the moment, and go out of their way to be polite (myself included) but Canadians seem to have no such mechanism. Don't you have manners in Canada. Since when is it kosher to go up to a total stranger and start to insult them?

There really should be no surprise from anyone on this board that this topic comes up so much. Americans, the newbs especially, have to be amazed and astounded at the level of animosity that spews forth from the mouths of Canadians they run across. I know I was. I'm not sure how long it takes to lose newb status, but I've been here just shy of six months and i still approach any and all unkonwn Canadians with slight trepidation, if I bother to approach them at all.

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[SuperFly]

Lets get back to the beer for a moment. OP mentioned micro breweries. Bleh, cmon man have you ever been to Canada? Why is it that the Canadians can mass produce great beer and we have to drink piss water? Why is it that in this "great country" we call America, we can't go down to the local neighborhood 7-11 and get a bottle of something remotely equivalent to what the Canadians drink as a domestic beer?

I'll tell you why!!

Because this "great country" drove out the best pioneers of the brewery business!!

Men like Jean Talon- early settlers and traders, they were Canada's first brewers and they set the pace for things to come. Now, they sit up there and make fun of us. Anyone remember the commercial from a few years ago with the guy and his dog making fun of us yanks and our beer? It's painfully obvious that a few micro breweries just don't cut the mustard my friends. Until America can start taking it's beer seriously, those people are going to continue to laugh at us.

We need to seriously get with the program.

[khyber]

abbe...
why don't you beech slap that ignorant fo?
I'm canadian but FFFFFFFFCK do i hate it when i hear these ridiculous fools start droning on.
At first i thought it was some kinda stereotype cause all of my canadian friends here in busan are pretty cool about it.
And then I met a couple of these 'tweeds.
They are SO annoying.
Once the second girl started going off (at the mudfestival), I had to tell her to just give it a rest. She was drunk and she sounded likea complete
tuner.

In your opinion, how should canadians act to americans....AND vice versa?

[Bulsajo]

[AbbeFaria]

[Grotto]

[canuckistan]

It's not just Canadians that seem anti-American, it's a lot of other nationalities too, and I think a lot of it stems from the shock/disbelief that a country as great as the USA could elect (well, sort of) such a dumbass president and his Texas cowboy shtick from such a socially regressive religious fundamentalist-leaning political party.
Doesn't look very good when they're leading the way with pointing the finger and dropping bombs on those other fundamentalists.

[Gopher]

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[red headed stranger]