Any good Canadian stereotype stories?

Jwalk

Jwalk

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Me being Canadian I hear all sorts of stories of stereotypes coming from southern US (Georgia,louisina, texas, Etc.) things such as people thinking Canadians live in igloos and drive dogsleds things like that. Anyone hear any or know if people actually think that?
 
when my dad lived in texas, he was asked to point out his old home on a map, and the teacher pulled down this map, and canada was just a big blank space with no lines or words or anything, so he had to kind of guess where to point out, and then one of the kids asked him if his house was an igloo.

but i'm pretty sure most americans these days know a little bit more about the world.
 
I went on a tour of Europe with some american kids and convinced some of the that mounties rode horses back in Canada because they could get from cabin to cabin through the forests easier.
 
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all i know is that the Toronto Blue Jay Fans are obnoxious when they come to Fenway, maybe that's why they got kicked out for starting a fight in the bleachers...
 
Last year while me and a buddy were travelling in Australia, we were ordering a beer. When the little hippy looking bartender finds out were Canadian he makes some completely uneducated remark about the Canadian seal hunt, and goes on and on, until everyone in the place thinks were some crazy animal killing rednecks. We try to explain that they use clubs to kill them cuz were anti gun and theres way to many to begin with, and they are dieing of starvation, we have to "harvest" them when there pubs before there skin colour changes darker. But still we get no beer, finally we say fuck it tell him at least dingos dont eat are babys, are nations hero is not a guy that sticks his thumb up aligators assholes, and that we are not the fattest nation on earth.
 
we actually do put 'eh' at the end of a statement to make it a semi-rhetorical question, such as "its cold outside, eh?" or "no way, eh?"
 
when i was in florida, i was staying at a hotel and sitting with these girls in the pool and they asked where i was from, and i said Whistler, BC, and they were like where? and i said in Canada, and the girl said, "well your very tanned for a place that has snow all the time." so i explained to her that we have seasons too and she said "the only time i have ever seen snow was on either the movies or my parents home video in which it snowed in 1971".
 
I convinced some guy in florida that instead of drive in movies we have "dogsled in movies".... very special person i must say
 
funny youd mention texas in this thread because when i moved from texas to the northeast people asked me in all seriousness if i was a cowboy/rode a horse/lived on a ranch all the time. we're talking some adults too
 
not a stereo type but.. when i was on the bus going to momentum i was sitting with a 17 year old who seemed like a decent kid. Then he asked where i live, responding i said Ontario. He said is that like a state yoo? I felt bad for him haha
 
we had some guys from Thunder Bay come down to our contest every year. Every time they said "eh" I chuckled to my self inside. But they were rad guys for sure.
 
I was born in South Africa. When we go back we have an easier time getting through customs on Canadian passports than South African ones...
Just thought Id throw this in. One time I was driving through Oregon and stepped into a gas station to ask for directions and the lady was incredibly helpful and kind and all my american stereotypes melted away. At least for Oregon
 
I seriously doubt anyone will ever top talking to americans. "Congratulations Canada on legalizing staplers!!"
 
I worked at a summer camp last summer teaching web design/flash/after effects. So basically a bunch of smart ass teenage boys, kinda like this forum.
The camp director happened to be Canadian.
Well one of my students thought it would be funny to make a flash animation where the director turned into a moose. At first the director thought this was funny. Except that he had to endure kids mocking him saying aboot instead of about for 6 weeks. It didn't get old until the last week when my student was showing some other kids the flash animation and the director was like "I'ld really appreciate it if you wouldn't go around showing everyone the animation anymore, at least until camp was over."
So the kid quits showing people but at lunch he says its about time for something. all the kids sit there going yeah, craig its aboot time. He freaks out, throws his lunch tray on the ground and storms out. Fortunately it was the last week of camps so the assistant director took over for the next 3 days. Still amazing to think about watching some 14 year olds push a 40 year old man to that extreme.
I didn't do my part though, I would always say conyada cause we have a city called la canada that is said that way.
 
dude, i was in Minneapolis like 4 years ago during the winter for a family funeral. i saw people walking around outside in bikinis.... of course, this could have something to do with the fact that they were walking to the hotel pool which wasnt connected to the hotel and was outside.
 
Well on my school ski trip 2 years ago there were some Canadians staying in the same hotel. So our school's dumbest blonde asks them if they live in igloos and says that they don't know what hotdogs are. Also, one of them became one of my closest friends and tried arguing with me that she doesn't say eh much...as i got texts and facebook messages with eh in them everyday.
 
This is hard, seeing as I live in minnesota which is basically Canada's gay brother. All Minnesotan rumors ive heard could be handed down to the Canadians
 
one of my dads non blood related nephews (best friend like a brother has three sons that are like nephews to my dad) said this same thing to me last night.
 
I go to school in New York but am Canadian... I have been able to convince many people that because of the metric system left is right and right is left. Time goes from 0-10 O'Clock, the list goes on... It all boils down to the metric system.

INCHES BLOW!!!!!!
 
At work people always ask where I'm from. I say Minnesota. They ask where that is and I always say next to Canada.
I just find it sad that they need to ask me where Minnesota is...
 
Well, you do have 50 fucking states to keep track of. Well 48 continental states, but that's still a lot.
 
No it's not. Well maybe it is for you but I had the geography of my country down pat by the time I entered 5th grade...
 
Are you being serious? Or is my Sarcasm Meter broken? I can tell you every single state. Probably every capitol, and could draw them on a map. That's 7th grade geography.
 
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remember minnesota, wisconsin, and south dakota... every other part of the midwest say fuck it and dont worry.
 
Where is Canada again? I'm from Idaho and I heard its close but I really don't know... but i hear they eat bever and like moose brains and noses.... and they like idolize maple syrup.

jk its above me. i like that place they have good beer
 
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