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Lately in the last 6 months or so Ive noticed a pretty large jump in the Canadian bashing that goes on in forums where there are predominently American members.

I recently posted on a car forum about wanting to go for a drive during my holidays down the east coast of the United States to go and visit my mother who lives in Florida. The thread started fine but then it quickly went south (no pun intended). It started off when I said I could drive from Ontario to Florida in 18 hours, which Ive done before. Here are some responces that I got to that, "Your car cant make it there in that time it would take 20 hours at least." that was a fine response, but then it went to this. "What do you expect he is Canadian?" "We dont want you in Florida stay in Canada" "Dont worry Canadians are so stupid he wouldnt be able to find Florida if he tried anyways" and other similar responces. Ive also noticed this in other threads Ive participated in and started with varying subjects on a few forums.

I try to do my best to voice my concerns about their views on Canada because they have no backing on any of their "facts", but it seems that Canada bashing has become some sort of fun online pasttime for American members. Im not saying they are all like this but I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed this and if you have what have you done about it?

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