Monday, November 1, 2010

American vs Canadian

Canadians are portrayed as polite (except when you mess with our beer), beer-loving, economically stable, clean, and grammar nazis. Whenever the Americans push the Canadians out of their way, the Canadians apologies. The only time they ever got confrontational was when Boomer took a sip of our beer, finds it too strong, and complains about it. The entire arena magically hears him during the commotion of a professional hockey game (which is packed due to Canadian love of Hockey) and the entire arena breaks out in a riot. This further enforces our irrational love of our beer. Canada's cities are clean, there didn't appear to be any homeless, and it seems as though there wasn't any unemployed. When Boomer and the rest if the Americans commented on how there wasn't any pollution or trash. When the RCMP (in dress gear and riding horses) discover the infiltrating Americans instead of arresting them all they discuss proper sentence structure.

The Americans are exact opposites and are portrayed as loud, obnoxious, dirty, stupid and on the verge of an economic collapse because they didn't have a war on at the time (the only thing that has changed is they had the economic collapse). The Americans would push the Canadians out of their way and insulted our beer (bad move). They constantly believed that America was better even though it was dirtier, more polluted, and had almost no economy. The majority of Americans were able to be convinced, in less than a week, that Canada was determined to rule the world. The Americans loved war. Their economy was based almost entirely on preparing for war. They needed war so much they actually went back and asked the Russians to restart the Cold War.

The stereotypes greatly exaggerate the personalities of both the Canadians and the Americans. While these cultures do exist in both countries they aren't either to this extent or the people are a minority. Canadians aren't nearly as polite as they are portrayed and there are some that are just as large of warmongers as Americans. There are also Americans who hate war and are very polite. Canadian cities aren't nearly as clean as they are portrayed and Americans aren't nearly as dirty. The best way to describe it would be if you took the two cultures portrayed and averaged them together that would be a good representation of both countries. Except for the beer, we will shank a b!*%$ over beer.

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