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Post by snacky on Sept 14, 2014 4:19:34 GMT
Just caught the end of Anchorman 2 while waiting for another movie to start, and it has a bit with a "Canadian News Team" (with Jim Carrey): Just the usual cliches being reinforced by big American movies. Good thing Canadians are creating good shows like MM now and taking control of their own narrative.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2014 1:14:02 GMT
Thanks Snacky. That snippet was pretty silly and we would just laugh it off as such. I find it hard to believe anyone with a thinking brain would see it as anything more than that.
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Post by snacky on Sept 15, 2014 4:38:57 GMT
Thanks Snacky. That snippet was pretty silly and we would just laugh it off as such. I find it hard to believe anyone with a thinking brain would see it as anything more than that. Well I've never been to Canada, but even people on this forum joke about apologizing to each other.  So how would you introduce yourselves to people who had never been there? Your stereotype still wins over the American one, I'm sure. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2014 7:30:20 GMT
Depends on the place. When I have been to the U.S., people can tell I am from Canada as soon as I talk. For the most part I have found Americans to be pretty friendly and curious about us so i expect questions, especially about the weather. No big spiel like on the I Am Canadian t-shirts, even though I actually own one. I wear it to the gym.
I don't own a hockey stick!
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Post by snacky on Sept 17, 2014 16:14:10 GMT
Depends on the place. When I have been to the U.S., people can tell I am from Canada as soon as I talk. For the most part I have found Americans to be pretty friendly and curious about us so i expect questions, especially about the weather. No big spiel like on the I Am Canadian t-shirts, even though I actually own one. I wear it to the gym. I don't own a hockey stick! I want a Canadian t-shirt! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 22:28:36 GMT
I bought mine in Ottawa on a lark. Like I said I only wear it to the gym. But it does make me smile.
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Post by lovemondays on Sept 22, 2014 23:30:21 GMT
My son has an "I am Canadian" rant t-shirt that he took with him to Europe. The funny thing is that on some level I know that Europeans see us differently than Americans do but I have no whether or not they hold the same stereotypes, lol!
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Post by snacky on Sept 23, 2014 3:57:47 GMT
My son has an "I am Canadian" rant t-shirt that he took with him to Europe. The funny thing is that on some level I know that Europeans see us differently than Americans do but I have no whether or not they hold the same stereotypes, lol! Wa can you find that online? The only thing better than a Canadian t-shirt would be a Canadian rant t-shirt! I think this video clip covered the American stereotypes. Canada is sort of a non-descript country to us. We have no familiarity with Canadian history. Canadians are like Americans, but they are nicer and they have health care. That's about all we know. |
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Post by carco on Sept 23, 2014 14:23:47 GMT
My son has an "I am Canadian" rant t-shirt that he took with him to Europe. The funny thing is that on some level I know that Europeans see us differently than Americans do but I have no whether or not they hold the same stereotypes, lol! Wa can you find that online? The only thing better than a Canadian t-shirt would be a Canadian rant t-shirt! I think this video clip covered the American stereotypes. Canada is sort of a non-descript country to us. We have no familiarity with Canadian history. Canadians are like Americans, but they are nicer and they have health care. That's about all we know. This is the old Molson's "I AM Canadian" TV commercial that is the "Canadian Rant"... it's from 2000. From comments I've seen on line some Americans took this as a slap in the face but if you're Canadian you know it was not a poke at Americans but was about what we "feel" and rarely "say". Molson's I A.M. Canadian Rant 2000I was thinking of all of you a couple of weeks ago while reading a Toronto Star article about Andrea Martin. It mentioned that many Canadians think Andrea is Canadian (I did too!) as she spent several years at the Old Firehouse with Second City back in the 70"s. But the article pointed out that she was so apologetic about not being Canadian and so sweet about it that "she might as well be Canadian". |
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Post by snacky on Sept 23, 2014 17:43:46 GMT
This is the old Molson's "I AM Canadian" TV commercial that is the "Canadian Rant"... it's from 2000. From comments I've seen on line some Americans took this as a slap in the face but if you're Canadian you know it was not a poke at Americans but was about what we "feel" and rarely "say". Molson's I A.M. Canadian Rant 2000I was thinking of all of you a couple of weeks ago while reading a Toronto Star article about Andrea Martin. It mentioned that many Canadians think Andrea is Canadian (I did too!) as she spent several years at the Old Firehouse with Second City back in the 70"s. But the article pointed out that she was so apologetic about not being Canadian and so sweet about it that "she might as well be Canadian". LOL that rant is great! By the way that "zed" once helped out a customer of mine when I worked for a bank. A transaction of his went missing. When he called to follow up on it, I was able to vouch for the original call because he used "zed" for "z", and I had been unfamiliar with the Canadian zed thing at the time. |
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 1, 2014 7:35:37 GMT
Helene Joy appeared in the six episode comedy series "An American in Canada." I have only read aobut it, but it is supposed to be a fairly good senc up of Americans and their misconceptions about Canada and Canadians. Of course it is only natural to either consciously or subconsciously absorb these notions. As a matter of fact that is one of the ways prejudice is transmitted.
Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth my family moved from a western state to an eastern state. When I started at the new hight school several of my classmates asked me things like did I ride a horse to school? Did we have any trouble with Indians? Did I live on a ranch?
They got a lot of their information or misinformation from TV and movies believing at some level that the shows were depicting the daily life of the people accurately. This opens the door to a huge debate about TV/Movies as history vs. TV/Movies as Art and the impact of the images they portray on society. But that is for another time and another place. I just thought I would mention it as it relates to stereotypes.
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Post by snacky on Oct 1, 2014 17:41:40 GMT
Helene Joy appeared in the six episode comedy series "An American in Canada." I have only read aobut it, but it is supposed to be a fairly good senc up of Americans and their misconceptions about Canada and Canadians. Of course it is only natural to either consciously or subconsciously absorb these notions. As a matter of fact that is one of the ways prejudice is transmitted. Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth my family moved from a western state to an eastern state. When I started at the new hight school several of my classmates asked me things like did I ride a horse to school? Did we have any trouble with Indians? Did I live on a ranch? They got a lot of their information or misinformation from TV and movies believing at some level that the shows were depicting the daily life of the people accurately. This opens the door to a huge debate about TV/Movies as history vs. TV/Movies as Art and the impact of the images they portray on society. But that is for another time and another place. I just thought I would mention it as it relates to stereotypes. I agree people get their "memory" of history from TV - and in many ways that's more important than what actually happened. "Remembered" history is the information that informs attitudes and decisions. America's dominance of entertainment media has reinforced the privileges of Americans all over the world in ways that are more insidious than any military posturing. This is why I love it when MM restores a little balance to the Force... |
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Post by mrsbrisby on Oct 2, 2014 18:34:04 GMT
Helene Joy appeared in the six episode comedy series "An American in Canada." I have only read aobut it, but it is supposed to be a fairly good senc up of Americans and their misconceptions about Canada and Canadians. Of course it is only natural to either consciously or subconsciously absorb these notions. As a matter of fact that is one of the ways prejudice is transmitted. Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth my family moved from a western state to an eastern state. When I started at the new hight school several of my classmates asked me things like did I ride a horse to school? Did we have any trouble with Indians? Did I live on a ranch? They got a lot of their information or misinformation from TV and movies believing at some level that the shows were depicting the daily life of the people accurately. This opens the door to a huge debate about TV/Movies as history vs. TV/Movies as Art and the impact of the images they portray on society. But that is for another time and another place. I just thought I would mention it as it relates to stereotypes. I agree people get their "memory" of history from TV - and in many ways that's more important than what actually happened. "Remembered" history is the information that informs attitudes and decisions. America's dominance of entertainment media has reinforced the privileges of Americans all over the world in ways that are more insidious than any military posturing. This is why I love it when MM restores a little balance to the Force... MM's strength is in the research the writers do. We may argue about the direction of certain arcs or characters, but the research is what really grounds this show. The small liberties they take with historical fact are negligible when you consider how much they get right. I appreciate the context they provide and enjoy the insight to Canadian history which I usually pursue with some online research. Our histories have many similarities but we differ in significant ways and I wonder what it is in those differences that account for the differences in our respective national characters. From the little I've read about the subject, the history of Canada's development has many examples of national controversies that resulted in sometimes violent conflicts, but somehow they don't seem to have painted themselves into political corners to the extent our politicians and policy makers have. We have disagreed on the point of the "ugly American" before but I do agree that for whatever reason we seem to influence the world in extraordinary ways. When we were living in South Africa, we went to the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho which lies entirely within the borders of South Africa. As the name suggests the small country is all mountains and very remote. We were bumping along a road and stopped to get some gasoline for the Rover and we noticed a woman who was wearing a Dallas Cowboys T-shirt. These people have kept themselves very much to themselves for most of their history, and my guess is the T-shirt found its way to this woman through either a well-intentioned program to distribute clothing to those less fortunate. The other option is that she purchased the shirt from people who collect donated clothing in the guise of charity then take it and sell it abroad. My point is the woman did not acquire the shirt because she is a Cowboys fan. She probably just liked the logo, but the United Federation of Planets warns that shirt introduced a foreign notion into that small community and it will have an impact especially when compound it by the hundreds if not thousands of signs and symbols from our culture that have seeped into the rest of the world this way. Is it the result of a huge conspiracy or simply chance that we find our culture exported this way? Probably a bit of both. Getting back to MM--it is a wonderful show and millions of people around the world enjoy it and I am much more interested in the new season. Do you have a way to watch it in the US? |
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So how would you introduce yourselves to people who had never been there?
