• yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Mid Europe here, same currently.

    Sadly, there is a need to say they are not 'murica now, can’t stay so much kind and polite anymore. Understandable but sad.

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    I used to have British made English textbooks, it had British stereotypes, minus the bombs for the Irish, and otherwise the more endearing ones.

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      I spent a season in Whistler 20 years ago, and even though Whistler is “Disney Mountain” I managed to get to know some local residents through Japanese home stay students. Weed was everywhere, granted season skiers and and snowboarders are perhaps not a random selection of the population in that regard.

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    During my study abroad in japan we visited an elementary school as a cultural exchange. The class that day had to pick a country and list three things about it. A bunch of them picked america and the three most common things were McDonalds / hamburgers, pancakes and Disney.

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    You may be tempted to think that the syrup thing is because of the bud, but actually she took up bud to stop getting so many questions about it.

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    What’s that look on her face… aggressively horny? Is this normally how Canadian ladies get while smoking BC buds??

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      That’s the reefer madness. East Asia takes a very hard line against drugs. As late as the 70s people in Japan would get 30 years in prison for possession of marijuana. Dealing drugs is often the death penalty across the region.

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      Nah, that’s the maple. We get crazy with the sticky tree blood in us.

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    If you’re gonna sum up an entire culture in a handful of words, well, they could have done worse.

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      I’m from Canada.

      It’s not America.

      As a Canadian this is the realist thing ever. Half our identity is being not-American.

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        25 years ago this was a bit silly, but these days it’s like saying: “Look, I’m not on the Epstein List!”

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          Continents aren’t real.

          Which continent is Russia in? Is Costa Rica in the same continent as Mexico or are they in different continents? Is “Central America” a continent?

          It’s all made up bullshit, so why not just say Canada is it’s own continent?

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          Ya, and Europe is not a continent. What a super intelligent position to take.

          There is no “America” by your definition. There are 800 million people in “the Americas”. Half of them refer to their county as simply “America”. Like 500 times a day. At least 100 million of the rest also use this label for the USA as does a big chunk of the world. When Churchill said, “You can always count of the Americans to do the right thing but too late”, was he talking about Chile or Canada?

          I would say the “United States” but then some moron will point out that this could mean the United States of Mexico as if just saying “United States” or “America” is confusing anybody. Does the US National Guard protect Mexico? Cuba or Belize? The US Marines?

          Do you think “America, fuck ya” is something people from Kentucky say to celebrate Honduras? Do you think “America the beautiful” is a song about Peru? Do you think the “American National Anthem” is pro Mexico?

          Do you think “American football” is what they play in Brazil? Because they sure don’t play it in Canada.

          And the 7,000,000,000,000 YouTube videos about “the American President”, who elected him?

          It is hard for me to believe that somebody thought this would seem like a smart thing to say.

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            I run into people all the time who use the term “America” without at all meaning that country wedged between Mexico and Canada. Los Estados Unidos is often how you’ll hear the nation state referred to in Latin America, whereas “America” usually refers to the entire hemisphere.

            It always blew my mind that the USA colonized the word America to have it refer only to themselves. How fucking on-brand is that?

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      Thdy must have vastly different smoking laws in Japan. We can’t smoke within 4m of entrances (legally), let alone indoors.

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          Shit as an American the biggest insult I could ever hear is being called an American. That isn’t the flex you think it is