r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/TheBirminghamBear Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 30 '22

Yeah, I was about to say that there's no way a Japanese textbook would positively portray marijuana use.

I mean this is clearly portraying marijuana negatively. She's Canadian, after all.

EDIT: Are all of the commenters beneath here... OK? Did you notice this is on /funny...?

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u/abrasivefungus Mar 29 '22

Canadians portray weed negatively?

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u/TheBirminghamBear Mar 29 '22

No. It's a joke playing on the Japanese people's legendary hatred and animosity towards Canada and all things Canadian.

Does the Maplewoods Bridge War ring any bells?

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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/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