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is hated by Canadians. The vast majority think they are loud, brash, boastful and extremely annoying. And I have to say I agree.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Canadians don't like the Americans because they live in America's
> shadow in most things.

Like Wales being really competetive with England, who don't seem to reciprocate to the same degree, I suppose.

I was in the states for a month earlier this summer. As such I met loads of Americans, of all shapes and sizes and colour.

I spent most of my time in Denver, where the majority of people I saw were not obese. In fact I was very impressed with the women. On average they are better looking than British women (although there may have been some rose tinted spectacle wearing, inasmuch as most wore rather skimpy clothing because of the heat).

Very few Americans were obnoxious, or brash or any of the other criticisms often levelled at them. What did impress me was the courtesy of the children, they were far more polite than here in Glasgow.

Quite a few of the people I met were loud, but that is more to do with having outgoing personalities than anything else. I know plenty loud people from lots of different countries.

However, there are some people who measure up to the American stereotype perfectly. And they do give reason to hate America. But there are people like that everywhere, not just America.

Canadians don't like the Americans because they live in America's shadow in most things. Plus they sound similar and so get the same criticisms abroad. Most Canadians are nice.

tv does give you that impression, but listen to some of their finer music, or watch a particularly refined film and you can see that it isn't the case.

people like these big brother USA contestants make me want to throttle a litter of puppies though

I'd guess it was more down to most people forming their opinions of Americans through TV programs and stuff which are never designed to portray 'average' people (it'd be boring TV), and so mislead.

Plus, the politicians, well, maybe they don't represent America that well, and can sometimes be just a tad abbrasive!


For the Americans I've met, and spent any serious time with, I find them to be good people. The main difference would be that they tend to be more assertive than most British, who generally seem a bit more reserved (stiff upper-lip, chaps?) while those brits who aren't veer off into the overly aggressive.

Bush and TV don't represent America fairly.

Belldandy wrote:
> It's almost as if owners of certain companies want to project a
> negative image about the average American citizen...

I agree

Americans are decent people. They are more polite to tourists than we are.

It's almost as if owners of certain companies want to project a negative image about the average American citizen...

RoJ wrote:
> is hated by Canadians. The vast majority think they are loud, brash,
> boastful and extremely annoying. And I have to say I agree.

I can't agree. I haven't met the majority of Americans. The Americans I have met though are rather quiet people.

However, from TV footage and American dramas the general perception does seem to be that they are more in-your-face than what we are accustomed to.

But America has

The snowy wilderness of Alaska
The mountains of Montana
The unearthly deserts of Arizona and Nevada
The tropical beauty of Haiwai (sp)
The rolling planes of Nebraska
The Grand Canyon
Wild horses
Grizzly bears
BIGFOOT
Hillbillies
The Blues
The KKK
Starsky & Hutch
Huggy Bear
The Empire State Building
The Golden Gate Bridge
The Pacific Heights of San Fransisco
VEGAS
Big cars
Big mutha truckers
Hookers
Proper porn stars

What's my point?
I've forgotten.

America and Americans are pretty good, on the whole.

Vincent Vega wrote:
> It started off intelligent.


If that's considered intelligent i'd hate to see a stupid post.