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.

Canadian and American Stereotypes

In the movie "Canadian Bacon" Canadian and American stereotypes are both shown. Canadians and Americans were portrayed almost opposite of each other. Canadians being polite, and cheerful, and Americans being rude, war loving, and angry. I do agree that many of these portrayals were on the right track, but have been exaggerated significantly. Canadians are not as polite as everybody makes them out to be, and Americans are not as angry as everybody makes them out to be. The Average Canadian is probably just like the average American, they may have just been brought up a little differently.

What do most people think of when they hear the word Canada? They think about Canada’s citizens. In “Canadian Bacon,” and almost all other movies, Canadian people are portrayed in the same way. Hockey is all we think and beer is all we drink. They think of us as lumberjacks, wearing long-sleeved, plaid, flannel shirts. We adore our national animal, the beaver. Canada is ridiculously cold, has insanely long winters, and because of this and our love of hockey, our main type of transportation is by zamboni. We are portrayed as being the most polite nation in the world. Please and thank you are basically the two most spoken words in Canada. In “Canadian Bacon” They think, because of our polite nature, that we are trying to take over the world. All Canadians are loud and rowdy, in a reserved way. We are usually the polite and innocent ones, but if you insult our nation, our flag, or our beer, our national pride will kick in to overdrive and you will know what we think of you.

In “Canadian Bacon,” Americans are portrayed as psychopaths. They are the angriest of people. They love their wars, and couldn’t do anything without them. The president of the United States of America is portrayed as a little bit less then smart. He is portrayed as an outright idiot, who doesn’t know a thing about his, not to mention any other country. Greedy and ignorant is the way Americans are being portrayed. All they care about is their money, not including war, and would do anything to get more of it. They are ignorant to everything except themselves. They don’t know a thing about the world beyond the fact that they want to control it. They are portrayed to have set out to take over the world, but won’t know what to do once they have because there will be no more wars to fight.

The stereotypes in this movie seem accurate to a certain extent. They are greatly overstated, but for the most part true. Canadians really do appear to be extremely polite, when compared to other countries. We really do love our hockey and our beer. We are among the proudest of people. Americans stereotypes on the other hand seem even more exaggerated. They do seem to love their war, but through their wars they are keeping peace in the world, or trying to. Many Americans really are ignorant to the world around them. They are not educated about anything except for themselves. Both Canadian and American stereotypes for the most part seem to be on par, but are definitely over exaggerated.

Canadian vs. American Stereotypes (Canadian Bacon)

In the movie Canadian Bacon the Canadian and American stereotypes are almost complete opposites. Canadians are presented as overly kind, saying sorry when others run into them, ignoring outlandish statements against Canada written on the side of a van (choosing instead to make the perpetrators follow language laws by writing it all again in french) and arresting the CEO of a company that did a hostile takeover over many smaller companies. Canadians are also very clean, have a more stable economy (more jobs) and are more peaceful.

Americans are much less well mannered. They are stereotyped as rednecks. They all have guns, dress in old, dirty clothes and are very unkempt. America itself is shown to be polluted, there are layoffs and easy access to high grade weapons. The country has romanticized war, when a president besides to go to war his ratings increase. American people are presented as gullible blindly following their president and believing what ever is shown on t.v.

Many of these stereotypes I do not agree with. The ones I see some truth to are very exaggerated. Let me start with the Canadian stereotypes. We do say sorry a lot, even when its not our fault. This does not include getting bowled over from behind. In that case someone is obviously at fault. Only the the aggressor would say sorry in that case. We do have language laws but those are almost exclusive to Quebec. We do not arrest people for doing things generally regarded as cruel or disrespectful. We are a clean country, we do have signs saying "thank you for not littering" and have fines for littering but it is not an obsession of ours. The American stereotypes I can not accurately explain. However, I do know that although there are times when there is easy access to weapons, the weapons easily available are not rocket launchers or military rifles. In recent years due to the recession there has been a lot of layoffs. That stereotype is true for modern times. America has made its presence felt in many theatres of wars. Wars have made or broken presidencies. North American society has romanticized war, not just the states. Movies until very recently have made war seem almost glamorous. I would not label the U.S. as warmongers as there is a lot of public outcry against their presence in Iraq. Many people in North America have a tendency to believe what ever is said on t.v., but this is not exclusive to the USA. I have trouble analyzing the stereotypes of Americans.

I have seen all these stereotypes show up in many movies, both the American and Canadian ones. I think this is because people are used to those stereotypes and to suddenly show a true image of Canada or the USA in a film would seem too foreign and unbelievable to audiences.

Canadian and American Portrayals

Canadians are portrayed as hockey loving, beer chugging rednecks. They are polite but anger very quickly when you don't like their beer. They all have missing teeth wear flannel shirts and hockey jerseys with a beaver on the front. There s long winters, maple syrup and Zamboni driving around everywhere. We are to nice for our own good and must be planning world domination or something. Everyone has a touque on their head, snowshoes and carry skis. We walk through the city with a conoe on our back.

The Americans are portrayed as angry war loving phsyco's. they love money and are in economic despair because they don't have a war to fight. They are looking for a fight and see the Canadians as a easy target. They are portrayed as ignorant to all other cultures. The president is an idoit and the country is really led by his advisors.

Almost all of the portrayals are accurate. In most cases they arnt wide spread and some are a little exaggerated. Most canadians and Americans don't act like their stereotypes but some do. You can always find somebody who fits there stereotype. The American do seem to love war and they are the melting pot of the world. Canadians do drink a lot of beer and love their hockey. Ya lots of these do happen in other movies. They are stereotypes so they are going to show up in other movies. strange brew had a lot of the same stereotypes.