Americans and Canadians culture Q&A Thread.

[lisaviolet]

@mommasita ,

I rarely see the news anymore due to streaming, caught that yesterday was not an improvement and you all had the worst air for any city in the world.

Hoping it improves soon for you.

Most of my treasured ones are in Montreal.and the townships, so thank you for the heads up as well as messages off to them.

Here's to some positive movement for you.

 

[lisaviolet]

Canadians, is there a place in Canada that Americans should avoid to visit due to anti American bias? I always think of Canada as a welcoming place overall but I wonder if there are places you would recommend to avoid.

No, not at all.

 

[lisaviolet]

No, not at all.

Although maybe The Canadian (train across part of the country). Laughing. I have taken it a few times & it never fails that it is an American customer complaining about the lack of animals seen a la "We were promised.animals".

I am sorry Buzz, I could not resist..

It certainly is not the British on that train, they are often in the bar car and the dome car having way too much fun! Laughing. Loudly..

 

[ronandannette]

Canadians, is there a place in Canada that Americans should avoid to visit due to anti American bias? I always think of Canada as a welcoming place overall but I wonder if there are places you would recommend to avoid.

Oh for Pete’s sake...no. Nobody cares where visitors are from but if you act like a loud, entitled jerk, the guess will be America.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Oh for Pete’s sake...no. Nobody cares where visitors are from but if you act like a loud, entitled jerk, the guess will be America.

I don't think it's a ridiculous question. I would think Canadians are as diverse politically as Americans are. Different communities in every country think different on a variety of issues. I have met a small number of people (yes I know that is not the majority of people on earth) that as soon as you say you are American/something positive about the country, they will in return be spiteful about it or immediately bash someone for being American. I would say 90% of the USA is welcoming (with the remaining 10% most would avoid). I'm not trying to be political. Just generally curious. There always seems to be a poll every year from our county's allied countries and their citizens on what the think of Americans. I would be interested to see what the latest one from Canada said.

 

[Buzz Rules]

@mommasita ,

I rarely see the news anymore due to streaming, caught that yesterday was not an improvement and you all had the worst air for any city in the world.

Hoping it improves soon for you.

Most of my treasured ones are in Montreal.and the townships, so thank you for the heads up as well as messages off to them.

Here's to some positive movement for you.

Does YouTube have your local/national news? NBC News has its latest national news episode after airs on its YouTube channel for example.

 

[mommasita]

@mommasita ,

I rarely see the news anymore due to streaming, caught that yesterday was not an improvement and you all had the worst air for any city in the world.

Hoping it improves soon for you.

Most of my treasured ones are in Montreal.and the townships, so thank you for the heads up as well as messages off to them.

Here's to some positive movement for you.

Ya, thank you . Yesterday was probably the worst. It’s hard, because on one hand we are fortunate that we are not affected directly by the fires, and pictures and the like are heartbreaking. On the other hand, well it’s just really sucky when you are healthy, our neighbours had a lot of difficulty breathing in the morning and did go to the ER.
Today is slightly better, still the foggy smoke, but it’s trying to clear. Rain is in the horizon

 

[mommasita]

Oh for Pete’s sake...no. Nobody cares where visitors are from but if you act like a loud, entitled jerk, the guess will be America.

Pretty much
I mean we are bordering countries @Buzz Rules . Tourism floats both our boats, or it should. We have more tourists downtown than locals right now. Cheers to that

 

[Buzz Rules]

Pretty much
I mean we are bordering countries @Buzz Rules . Tourism floats both our boats, or it should. We have more tourists downtown than locals right now. Cheers to that

Glad to hear it. Like I said, I'm just curious based on the small sample size I mentioned. American can sometimes feel like a "buzz" (no pun intended) word when in another country.

 

[lisaviolet]

Does YouTube have your local/national news? NBC News has its latest national news episode after airs on its YouTube channel for example.

I do watch my Lester on YouTube once in a while Buzz - thank you.

But with streaming, I am never flipping around of course so I just naturally watch less news.

 

[tvguy]

Although maybe The Canadian (train across part of the country). Laughing. I have taken it a few times & it never fails that it is an American customer complaining about the lack of animals seen a la "We were promised.animals".

I am sorry Buzz, I could not resist..

It certainly is not the British on that train, they are often in the bar car and the dome car having way too much fun! Laughing. Loudly..

LOL, not on the train, but my wife's complaint about all our trips to Canada is never seeing a moose. My Aunt and Uncle had a "cabin" at Candle Lake and it was crawling with bears, but the moose all hide when we are there. A couple of my cousins have totaled cars hitting moose.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I do watch my Lester on YouTube once in a while Buzz - thank you.

But with streaming, I am never flipping around of course so I just naturally watch less news.

Sometimes I think CTV News is better tbh. ABC does national news better than NBC in my opinion but Canadian news stations seem to have less bias on American topics. I wonder if the reporting style is just different here.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Canadians, is there any American slang that you don't understand?

 

[michellev]

No long gone as it was the actual factory, not a store.
Two pubs were in the building SirDuff. Firkin was the main one, but I believe it is gone. At the turn off for SPIN. South side of King, west of Spadina, just before

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I knew you & I lived in the same neighbourhood. And thought it was funny that we could have easily been passing each other.

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Hi Annette @ronandannette, hope you're doing well. Must have been blast from the past day as I was looking up Salada tea & Gumby, in no particular order. Laughing..

Someone gave me a tiny figurine for my birthday & I realized yesterday that it reminded me of the Salada tea ones. That started the deep dive!

My aunt used to save all our her figurines from the box for me. I had quite the collection!!

 

[michellev]

Canadians, is there any American slang that you don't understand?

No. Canadians watch American tv and probably all of us on the Dis travel to the US frequently enough to be familiar with American slang.

 

[Buzz Rules]

No. Canadians watch American tv and probably all of us on the Dis travel to the US frequently enough to be familiar with American slang.

Slang varies from state to state....

 

[ronandannette]

Slang varies from state to state....

Here's something I'll never understand, about the southern vernacular. How can anybody, with a straight face, refer to a single person as "y'all"? And more than one person is "all y'all"? It's just so stupid...

 

[mommasita]

I just absolutely loathe the reply “uh huh” to thank you. Your welcome is just as easy to say, and much more polite. It grinds my gears.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I just absolutely loathe the reply “uh huh” to thank you. Your welcome is just as easy to say, and much more polite. It grinds my gears.

We (in the North) say "uh huh" mostly as slang for understood, like Spanish speakers say claro.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Just curious, and I'm sure Canadians will tell me no but has Canadian news/media mentioned the CSA (Canadian Soccer Association) at all lately? This has been an interesting week for your national team, so it would surprise me if it was not on the news/sports radio at all.