CANADIANS: what are some of the main differences between you and Americans?

Question

Please don't just quote the beer commercial

Answer 1

Lol.

Honest difference.

Well, we have a different range of accents. (Beer commerical makes fun out of some of the common accents on both sides of the border but like the US we have huge range.) Some of our "traditional" accents sound like those in Michigan, "they Ottawa valley", then we have ones like in Newfoundland, the "Jim Carrey", and ones with a bit of an english tint. (Like Keifer Sutherland's dad.)

Generally, Canadians are a bit more to the left wing than Americans. This is a general observation. Tons of exceptions on both sides of the border.

Canada is not a super power. We don't tend to talk in terms of power but more in terms of what's right. We rarely employ the word "morality", in comparision with Americans tho.

Our atheists and christians, disagreements are much less pronounced than in the US. Again, I don't know why. We don't have an association with God and country. Prayer in schools is kind of rare. Canadian politicians almost NEVER talk about their personal religious views other than saying they go to church. (Some recent conservatives are a bit of an exception but it does not go over well.)

We are less prone to seeing gun ownership as a god given right.

Obviously we have far fewer big cities.

We have some British traditions although some of those are disappearing. These include calling "Zed" rather than "Zee" and eating crumpets.

We have a tradition of bi-lingualism ALTHOUGH, in fact most English Canadians are uni-lingual. (And then we have our immigrants that speak billions of other languages and then one of english or french.) We have some uni-lingual french canadians too but they are relatively rare. In Quebec, many Anglophones are now bi-lingual but it was not the case before.

We believe strongly in the United Nations and are proud of our reputation as a peace keepers, but of course our contribution is relatively small. (Obviously biggest peace keeper in the world in terms of contribution is in fact the U.S.)

In general, we are like Americans but sometimes a bit less strict in our views. Obviously, every kind of person exists everywhere tho.

Answer 2

as a non-Canadian, it's the word ' out ', Canadians and Americans pronounce it differently!