For my english class I'm preparing a presentation about 10 national stereotypes about Canada. Since I don't live in Canada and neither have Canadian friends or family, I came here to ask Canadians whether said stereotypes are true, false, kind of true... If you have a comment on the topic, it would be great to first state if you are a Canadian or how long you lived there or if you traveled the country. Secondly write the number of the point you want to comment on e.g.: 1. false, not every...
1. Canadians love Hockey 2. live in igloos 3. love maple syrup 4. Tim Hortons = only coffee place 5. own beavers, polar bears, moose 6. are lumber jacks 7. say "eh" after each sentence 8. it's always cold 9. scared of the dark 10. too polite
I don't try to offend an entire country by this post and know how many of these are silly but they were the most common stereotypes.
OP again This is not supposed to be something racist, more a 'fun' and informal activity everyone in class has to do. Last week for example we had a presentation about my own country and I had a good laugh about sausage-eating, beer-chugging, lederhosen-wearing Germans.
Lucas Hall
>pretty accurate outside major cities >only in like, nunavut. Cottages and mobile homes are more popular up north. Not RVs, but the movable houses you can set up with plywood around the base >yes >Tim Hortons is still popular, but a lot of people hate them now because they sold out to Br*zilians and their products suck. Coffee Time & McDonalds are the alternative >i dont know if you can legally own a moose, but people hunt bear and moose quite often durong seasons >lumber industry is waning >it's there, but not as prevalent as people think >any time between september and may, yes >dont know about that one, doubt it since its dark between 4pm and 8am during the aforementioned period >sort of, passive aggressiveness is a bit more common
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Jeremiah Martin
The main ones you need to know >say sorry all the time, weak over polite soy boys >say eh >their park rangers with the red outfit and brown hat are their national symbol
BASED Gavin McInnes made a video about differences between America and Canada
Thanks for learning about the US and speaking English, really helps me avoid learning irrelevant languages btw
Charles Bell
>scared of the dark LOL. Where the fuck did you get that from?
One thing is that they are super in denial that they have an accent. I can tell somebody is from Canada or the upper midwest as soon as they open their mouths.
Eli Cooper
I have family in Canada, live in a state bordering it, and go there fairly regularly. Here's my take on these stereotypes: 1: True. 2: Can't speak to the accuracy of this one, but I've never seen an igloo. 3: Yeah 4: They're common, but they're not the exclusive option 5: None of them are pets, but beavers and moose are fairly common. 6: They have about the same average jobs as Americans in my experience 7: I've heard it, but it's not like canucks have a verbal tic or something that makes them say it nonstop. 8: It is warm in spring/summer. I live in Upstate NY, though, so I'm used to cold anyway. 9: Not at all in my experience 10: They're not as bluntly rude as Americans can be, but they never really struck me as strangely polite.
Aiden Perez
Thanks so far for the detailed feedback. Helped alot with my presentation. I will keep on refreshing this thread.
Robert Turner
They're all false except 3 (but who doesn't?) and 7 that's kind of true in some areas. I wasn't aware 5 was a stereotype.
Cameron Butler
If I got 5 cents for every time a Canadian said sorry to me unnecessarily I wouldn’t have to work
Josiah Lopez
The RCMP is the equivalent of the FBI not park rangers.
Born and raised in Vancouver, but live on Vancouver Island now. BC is in some ways different from other parts of the country so my answers may vary from Ont*rians, etc.
1) Ice hockey is the most popular professional sport here and is ingrained in the culture. Even people who don’t care about their local team will proudly support Canada in the Olympics and perhaps IIHF. It is also interesting that hockey is very popular amongst immigrants and immigrant descended Canadians, particularly Indo-Canadians. 2) Not at all true. Something like 100,000 of Canada’s 35 million people live in the northern territories and of those nobody lives in igloos on the reg 3) True. Maple syrup flavoured shit is everywhere 4) Starbucks and regional chains are also quite popular. Tim’s is ingrained in the culture though (which was done deliberately by them) to the extent that stopping at Tim’s before driving your kid to hockey practise is probably the most Canadian thing a person could think of. 5) Not at all 6) Lumber is a huge industry in Canada, particularly in BC, but it is quite modern including such techniques as surgical tree removal by helicopter 7) Varies by region, social class etc but is definitely a thing 8) Varies by region and of course season. In the prairies it can be -40 or worse in the winter but 30 or higher in summer. Where I live the range is more like -10 to 35 at the extreme 9) Never even heard of this 10) Canadians can be quite superficially polite but are often not really friendly. You’d hardly ever meet somebody and be invited to their house for dinner or anything like that, at least not in the cities.
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John Garcia
I know. Pretty strange. But search for it, you will find alot.
William Stewart
"""Too polite"""
The German mind
Ayden Edwards
I’m sure there’s also people scared of the dark in Germany. That doesn’t mean that being scared of the dark is a German thing.
Lincoln Martin
I’d say non-confrontational is a big one.
If someone is making a commotion most people turn away and ignore them.
Liam Perez
this, big time
Canadians would rather ignore some retard than start shit, I think it's one of our biggest defining traits.
Michael Wright
That makes us sound like japs kek
Michael Sullivan
Make sure to mention how they're all asians and Trudeau is a cuck, your teachers will love it.
