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What is a common stereotype about your country or your ancestors’ country(ies) that just isn’t true? (thelemmy.club)
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For my girlfriend, is that all Italians talk like Mario. For me, it’s that all Germans I guess drink beer all the time? I’m not gonna say the other thing, just that they think it’s full of those kind of bad people still…

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Canadians are super nice. In my experience, people are people everywhere, and there's always a mix of agreeable and disagreeable personalities.

The idea probably just comes from Canadian manners, which are different than American ones in a way that seems "polite" to an American.

[–] lemonlolita@calckey.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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That all Canadians love hockey.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

TBF a lot of us do; it's our big sport. But, not everybody likes sports. It's kind of like saying all Americans like American football. (Canada's official national sport is actually lacrosse)

I've heard there's a stereotype we're all outdoorsy. I guess in my region everybody does camp, and knows basic camping stuff, but there's also a tendency to start the fire with copious accelerants and a blowtorch.

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This. And that they eat maple syrup with everything

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do people actually think that?

We produce it, but it only goes in recipes that include it. Usually pancakes. I don't know, do Americans eat everything with a hamburger on top?

Edit: Another dumb one at that at least somebody thinks: we all live in igloos. No, sometimes there's no snow. Even in the arctic where it's traditional they don't typically anymore, because that's just a hut made of frozen water. It has no toilet or electricity.

[–] may_be@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly, some people think you guys do or joke about it