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United States
Land of the free, home of the brave - UNTRUE
Separation of church and state - UNTRUE
With a little hard work and determination anyone can achieve their (American) dream - LAUGHABLY UNTRUE
Ridiculous amounts of wealth very unevenly distributed - TRUE
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.
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That all Canadians love hockey.
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.
This. And that they eat maple syrup with everything
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.
Exactly, some people think you guys do or joke about it
Finland
Personal space, less then average social interaction and general "no bullshit" atitude - TRUE.
Other europeans might view general Finnish wibe as being grumpy/upset, altough it isn't.
Drink excessive amounts of alcohol - UNTRUE
We don't drink more, just more at once.
Good public education system - TRUE
Not sure how long, right wing politics have been dismantling it for decades.
German ancestry here, had some woman call my mom a Neo-Nazi when she found out she was of German descent and almost stopped being friends with her
Why "almost"?
She told her she wasn't a Nazi just because she was German
The assumption was insulting enough that I wouldn't have take the time even to do that.
That we're all descended from convicts (though I am)
Do you really need to wear a harness in order to avoid falling off the earth ?
Soviet Union ancestry. I went away from Soviet Union when Vladimir Putin was a KGB agent in Germany, or maybe a taxi driver in Leningrad. People blame me and my family for things that Putin did.
There was a solid 20 years there where the world actually believed Canadians were environmentalists. Lol!
Certainly not all the time, But Germans do drink a lot of beer…. I mean a lot of beer.
Australia being a lucky country, the colony is a prison for a land, for a land without prisons
And the idea that in Oz, everything is out to kill you, not true.
Swam in a body of water today, that has ~25,000 of these freshwater crocs, not one of them bit me.
