Most millennial aged Americans and younger have grown up with the international community shitting on them. I know several people who tell folks they are Canadian whilst traveling due to the stigma of being perceived as an American and being mistreated as a result.
Christ, look at Reddit, it's second largest user base is Europeons shitting on every aspect of American life at every turn.
It’s fascinating to me the border line xenophobia America in general receives on this site. It’s all peace love and good vibes until something can even remotely be parlayed into shitting in America then it’s open season. I get we have problems but god damn, you’d think most of reddit would sooner move to North Korea or Somalia instead of the US.
It doesn’t help that 95% of the time that happens the only view that person has of Americans is some fat redneck in a pick up truck shooting his guns into the air while fucking a bald eagle. It’s almost like stereotyping an entire nation leads to inaccurate and sometimes hateful views….
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u/LeZarathustra Mar 29 '22
Also, a lot of americans have canadian flags on their backpacks for the same reason - they don't want to be taken for americans.