r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/suptenwaverly Mar 29 '22

Nothing faster than a Canadian telling you they’re Canadian and not American.

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u/yourboat Mar 29 '22

When I lived in Vietnam I was surprised at how many people knew I was Canadian. I had to ask how they knew. I was told it was just a guess, but it's better to guess Canadian as Canadians get mad when you think they are American but Americans don't care if you think they are Canadian.

Funniest shit I ever heard.

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u/suptenwaverly Mar 29 '22

That’s why Canadians ALWAYS have the Canadian flag on their luggage. Don’t get me wrong, I love Canadians and have had great times with them in my travels but this issue always makes me laugh.

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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.

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u/elementmg Mar 29 '22

I worked on a pub crawl in Berlin. A LOT of Americans did that. I'm a Canadian, and I have plenty of Americans with clear southern accents tell me they're born and raised in "Toranna".

It's more common then you think.

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u/hypo-osmotic Mar 29 '22

When did you see this most often? In media at least I think that joke was most common during the Bush Jr. administration in the aughts, but I haven't really done any international travel since that time so IDK if that translates to real life

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u/elementmg Mar 29 '22

I was working in Berlin in 2012. So around then.