For anyone who watches King of the Hill, the new episode yesterday had a Canadian family come down to live in their neighbourhood for a while. For some reason, they were portrayed as gentle, if not passive-aggressive, who refused to talk in a tone (with their stereotypical accent) any higher than a mother would when talking reassuringly to their kid after they cut their knee while playing. I'm sure we have all seen one show or another in which Canadians are seen as these almost pansy-like figures As a Canadian who has lived all around Canada, I've yet to truly find a city in which the majority people there weren't either A) Quite rude, usually being the bigger cities or almost all of Quebec, or B) Rednecks who have drunken bonfires every other night or drunken bar fights over a hockey game for the rest. Even when we examine history, Canadians were seen as elite soldiers up until after World War 2 (the Americans have this tendency to make every other country in both World War's sound obsolete, so it's understandable to have no idea about Canada's involvement). The same can kind of be said towards Americans being seen as these selfish, egotistical dicks, but all the Americans I know are insanely nice and polite people (which is funny because I made a point earlier about Americans being egotistical). I can kind of understand how that stereotype comes from American Foreign Policy over the past 50 some years, but I can't wrap my head around this idea of Canadians as overly nice.
