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I know you won't want to hear this and I'm ready for the bashing but this is a true story...Last year we were in Italy with our son (he's 25). He walked into a nearby town and went to a bar/cafe establishment for a beer and to mingle with the locals. They were very stand-offish and unfriendly even though he tried to strike up some conversations with some people around his own age. Somehow they found out he was Canadian and everything changed - some of the patrons even bought him drinks. They told him in broken English that they thought he was American and were glad to meet a Canadian...he stayed there talking to them for several hours and had a wonderful time. Make what you will of it.
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I lived in Canada 20 years, and I am an American. I feel qualified to rant about both countries' bad and good points. A little known bad point about Canadians is how smug and self-satisfied they are. And jealous. As one of their favorite writers ( I admire her too) Margaret Atwood once wrote, Canadians press their piggy little faces up against the border and display their envy.