Thing is you let your idiots into the world's view, others have learned to keep them away from media.
Hey, as a member living in the nations capital, let me extend a warm hand in friendly greeting!! (and all that.)JoJo said:While I don't agree with a lot of your typical American's views, as an Englishman I find them a friendly and interesting people, which is lucky I guess because I'll be going over there to work in less than two months time.
Oddly enough that's the only thing you won't get shot for over here.Mr.K. said:Well it seems to have rather bad spelling issues... I hear they shoot people for that over there.
As far as I can tell, it's not that high school history classes here in the US ignore Canada's contributions to WW2; rather the problem is that they just teach so little of the war that the only thing people learn is that the Nazis were involved and that Americans were fighting said Nazis. The rest of the average American's education on WW2 comes from movies and videogames.ToTaL LoLiGe said:Here in the UK we value Canadas contribution to WW2. I'm pretty sure it's taught in high school history classes.Regnes said:Well here in Canada we don't really hate Americans, even if we do consider them to be an inferior culture in general.
A lot of us do take issue with America's portrayal of WW2 though, how they ignore every other country's contributions and even take credit for famous battles they didn't win. Also quite rich when you consider most of the world still looks down upon America for joining the war two years late.
I think your looking to deeply in simple terminology that no American even considers. In other words I think your making something out of nothing. The United States of America is a mouthful shorting it to just American or the States seems logical enough to me.TheOmenCorpse said:Call it a pet peeve, but I always think it implies a level of arrogance you do not see in other countries.Mortai Gravesend said:It seems so much easier to call those the Americas, and I'm pretty sure that's how it's usually done.TheOmenCorpse said:America is the combination of South America and North America. I think it's funny that citizens of USA seem to believe their country spans two continents. I understand that this is just a colloquialism, and no one really believes it, but if a brit started talking about Europe being occupied solely by other brits people would look at him as if he was an imbecile
Would you rather they say "G-d curse America."? I don't understand your complaint. Do you not wish the best for your country? It really has little to do with patriotism, and is more just people wishing the best for the place they reside, which seems logical to me.Evilpigeon said:You guys are the most brazenly patriotic nation I can think of. It's incredibly annoying. Then again I dislike any nationalism. We live in a world where I can chat daily with people living anywhere in the world, for the price of an internet connection. Countries are fast becoming obsolete concepts and everytime I hear "God bless America!" I cringe at the idea that there are still people who sincerely think like that.
ToTaL LoLiGe said:Here in the UK we value Canadas contribution to WW2. I'm pretty sure it's taught in high school history classes.Regnes said:Well here in Canada we don't really hate Americans, even if we do consider them to be an inferior culture in general.
A lot of us do take issue with America's portrayal of WW2 though, how they ignore every other country's contributions and even take credit for famous battles they didn't win. Also quite rich when you consider most of the world still looks down upon America for joining the war two years late.
Well most americans I've encountered online think the USA is the greatest at everything especially sports. That said all escapist members from USA seem to be very pleasant people. I'm not a fan of the USA's government treating the UK like it's *****.
TheOmenCorpse said:'The States' is a shortened version of the United States of America, also USA.Chemical Alia said:TheOmenCorpse said:Call it a pet peeve, but I always think it implies a level of arrogance you do not see in other countries.Mortai Gravesend said:It seems so much easier to call those the Americas, and I'm pretty sure that's how it's usually done.TheOmenCorpse said:America is the combination of South America and North America. I think it's funny that citizens of USA seem to believe their country spans two continents. I understand that this is just a colloquialism, and no one really believes it, but if a brit started talking about Europe being occupied solely by other brits people would look at him as if he was an imbecile
Honestly, are you just looking for something to take offense with this? We shorten the United States of America to "America" for the same reason we change People's Republic of China to "China", the United Mexican States to "Mexico", and so on. Yes, it happens to share part of its name with the American continents. That's not arrogance, but coincidence. For God's sake.
Felipe Nurwandi said:I don't think everybody there are idiots, but of course a lot do fit the stereotype. It's not the people that bother me much, it's the media, government, and public relations that are so bull***t. They overreact, exaggerate, make things more "interesting" for the people and make them believe whatever the companies want them to believe.
Finally and most importantly: As a Canadian, Chicken McNuggets are like, $10 for 6. In USA, it's $5 for 20 pieces.
So that's not fair![]()
Not a chair a bed. 75% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S-Canada border that strikes me as laying down not siting up.him over there said:Well I'm from Canada. Strictly speaking from a geographic stand point I think they're pretty cool guys, they make a nice chair.