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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I think what you need to understand, and why everyone 'likes' Canada, is because internationally Canada is like that nice meek librarian in a sweater vest and thick rimmed glasses.
Very nice, very polite, very helpful, and in no way a threat to anyone. Canada can't stick up for itself outside of Canada, it can't stop anyone from doing 'bad' things, its not a world power of any degree. Canada opted out of this, of its own free will, after WWII. If the US wasn't so powerful you would never have been able to just 'opt out' of the world stage. Its not that Canada isn’t ‘war mongering’ its now almost incapable of going to war.
So when Canadians thump their chest at how great they are, its bound to get some resentment from those in the US who know what Canada could do but instead decided to no longer be, letting us foot the full bill.
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Oh brother.
The USA is like the big 6'-8" 286 pound football player from High School who is about as sharp as a bowling ball, who has relied on his brawn and never really made it in the world. He's recently turned 48 and is still working unloading trucks at the local Safeway but keeps talking about his glory days playing defensive end back at George Washington High School and he think's he's got it so good because by god, he's American, and we're Number 1.
With a population of 31 million people, Canadians are not about to throw our weight around the world, nor do we desire to. The thing about you and Americans like you is you think that we want to, or suffer from some sort of penis envy of the USA. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The thing that drives Americans crazy about Canadians is that we are more like you than not, yet we have absolutely no desire in the world to join you and in fact, we consider ourselves superior to you in just about every way. We just let you think what you want because we know that the sun is setting on the American Empire. Slowly but surely. Slowly but surely.