• Geobloke@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 hours ago

    Dunno, go overseas and tell people you’re either Canadian or American and measure the response

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      7 hours ago

      I visited an American working friend in Russia around the turn of the century. If asked, like by our cab driver, he’d say he was Canadian. They would then nastily trash Americans. The Cold War made both populations suspicious of if not just hate the other but the Russians have had the hate reinforced stronger and harder by their government.

      Other countries, there’s not as much anti-American bias. Well, there wasn’t. Now, I expect it’ll spread for different reasons.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Americans pretending to be Canadian while on vacation is a trope that extends beyond Russia.

        • Geobloke@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          5 hours ago

          Yeah, i remember during the Iraq war years there were a suspicious number of Canadian backpackers