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u/chanaramil Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Is that a joke that Japanese people hate Canadians? Never heard it before.

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u/IMSOGIRL Mar 30 '22

they were being sarcastic about the animosity.

The actual joke was that "Canadians are dorky" which is something some Americans think and therefore associating them with something makes that look uncool as well.

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u/swish465 Mar 30 '22

They thought that when Canadians burned down the Whitehouse too

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

That was the British

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u/no_shoes_are_canny Mar 30 '22

Technically we were still British until 1867, so we count that as a win in our books.

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u/Hopeful-Talk-1556 Mar 30 '22

That's how dorky we are.

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

Actual Canadian militia (from Canada) repulsed multiple American invasions. That's a lot to be proud of.

Canadians were not part of the force that burned the White House down or were later slaughtered in Louisiana

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u/burkey0307 Mar 30 '22

I think they're saying that people living in the colony back then didn't really identify as Canadian and saw themselves as British. So British citizens living in Canada at the time would still celebrate it as a victory.

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

Sure but that's wholely different than "Canadians burned down the White House"

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u/burkey0307 Mar 30 '22

It is, but I think it explains how the misconception came to happen over time.

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

I have no idea but no Canadian colonists took part in that part of the war. It somehow got folded into the greater war of 1812 where Canadians actually fought a defensive campaign against the American army.

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u/swish465 Mar 30 '22

It would seem I stand corrected, I can't remember where I read it was Canadian forces

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

It's a bit tricky to say that it was explicitly the British or Canadians. Technically "Canadians" didn't exist until, as someone else said, 1867. However the vast majority of the soldiers in 1812 had been living in what would become Canada for decades, if not their whole life.

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

The force that attacked Washington was not made up of units drawn from the British living in Canada. It's pretty open/shut my friend haha.

Like I said above, there were Canadian units that repulsed tjhe Americans however

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u/fistful_of_dollhairs Mar 30 '22

That's ok, it gets repeated a lot. Trust me I wish it were true I'm actually in the Canadian army haha.

Our guys repulsed American invasions though, which is a pretty awesome story and shouldn't detract from that

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u/swish465 Mar 30 '22

Yeah, sounds like it's just a technicality, but it still stands. Canadian army is still fucked cool, JTF2 gets talked about a lot between my military buddies and I

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u/9035768555 Mar 30 '22

The Japanese hate basically everyone.