That's just everyone's name for us. We actually are just happier to tend to our own garden. I'm keenly aware that most people in the world have no idea what or who Canada is. That all most of humanity knows of Canada is "hockey, nature, maple syrup" = Canada's PR team has been doing its job very well. You've been had! Hook, line, and sinker.
Nah, more like. Americans: You're so nice> Canadians: I like you too (After America leaves): OMG!!!! Look at how America is so right wing and racist lololololol.
Honestly it isn’t really hatred. Ask left-wing Canadians (Around two-thirds of the population based on the popular vote total of the Liberals, NDP, and Greens) about the US and their dislike is directed almost exclusively towards Republican states, ask right-wing Canadians (Around one-third of Canadians based of the vote total of the Conservatives and BQ) and their dislike is directed almost exclusively towards Democratic states (Although the BQ tend to hate everything Anglophone so they are a bit of an anomaly).
seeing all the “Americans don’t think about Canadians as much as Canadians think about Americans” comments made me realize that yeah, this is my first time in a while thinking about Canadians.
I just want to mention that it’s our social media and journalist and stuff who focus on Americans. Like by asking questions that keep Americans relevant in the minds of Canadians, but if you were to spend a couple days in Canada and drank with some fellow Canadians you would not hear a single conversation about America or Americans, we regular people genuinely do not think about other countries either.
@@BarryB.Benson Yea id say like 50/50. It's not that Canadians want to talk about America. Is just inadvertently since many things popular in Canada are tied to the US. Think about any major tv shows, movies, music, sports, pop culture etc. If you're a Canadian and any of those topics comes up you're more than likely gonna be talking about something US related. I've been to Canada 5 times so i have some personal experience not just a random opinion lol. Have family in Brampton area and Also family in west coast in Vancouver area.
@@brownjatt21 ya no, I completely agree with you on that, but what I meant was when don’t just sit around talking shit about Americans, or have hour long conversations about what Americans are doing, but you’re absolutely right that if we’re talking about sports or movies, they most likely are American made or involve American people
You know we Canadians dont care that Americans dont think of Canada right? That's actually a good thing for Canada. It means we're not catching horrible headlines that make Canada look bad. Mean while. The U.S. looks like a joke every day. American ignorance of Canada is not the own you think it is.
@@randomassname445 We don’t tend to lose sleep over the opinions of those that are powerless to affect our lives. Our lack of concern stems from the impotence of foreign nations when it comes to imposing their concerns upon us. It’s a “We’re going to do what we please and you can cry as you will” vibe. As it stands, every single Canadian could be totally united in purpose like the Borg, determined to cause Americans grief, and all of them combined in effort and will wouldn’t so much as be able to seize Vermont or Maine from us without us decapitating your entire country. It would feel like a speed bump for the states you tried it against and folks down in Texas or Arizona or the Carolinas wouldn’t even notice in their day to day if they weren’t watching the news. You pose no threat, we spend more money on any given branch of our armed forces than the entire operating budget of your country, so you aren’t exactly an economic threat either.. ..and our culture rules your country, you aren’t a cultural threat in the slightest. There’s not much from you lot that demands our attention. It’s a testament to the difference in our power and capability that we ignore you. We’re freed from small concerns like that living in the US. It’s nice. Sorry you don’t have that luxury. Now go sit down before the CIA takes offense at your smugness and engineers the breaking apart of your country for our convenience.
@@That_AMC_Guy Canada is a way better country than the us. I've visited both and was only met with racism in america. Where as Canadian people are heartwarming and extremely friendly. The us government treats its people like drones only built to work and if you don't mean a certain standard let's say you are born with a certain disability you are left to die as you can't even depend on your own government to help. Trump himself is a complete idiot not even knowing how to act half of the time making his country look like a joke. Sure the US has a lot of good things going for it but Canada has good public healthcare which America doesn't. Public healthcare allows everyone to get help and live a healthy lifestyle where everyone is treated equally and that is something that Canada has a right to be proud of. America is a cool place but when I hear Americans saying that their country is the best it literally makes me cringe because there is no such thing as the best country in the world. America has a high income gap lots of Rascism huge levels of gun violence that are not seen in other countries in the first world a huge problem with obesity and problems with its police force as seen many times with them being racist particularly towards black people. So you have no right to say that Canada is a failing country when it is America that has wayyy more problems.
Something interesting I realized is that Britain has a similar sentiment. They aren't as left wing, but they do look down on the US. Although I don't think they are as serious because they know the UK is also pretty messed up lol. Canada is a bit more serious about this kind of sentiment though for sure.
Because unlike UK Canada actually live close to the us and feel America is so wrong and a stain to them which is stupid....Canada should learn to understand America history and understand why USA is as it is.....
@@Darkmaga23 and the fact that Canada's view in the world is largely down to how it does economically, which is heavily dependent on the United States, which they did intentionally due to the fact that after WW2, the US had wages that were like twice that of the second closest country.
No. The UK just believes the USA is condescending considering their circumstances. The UK is not some oppressive dystopian because it has a ceremonial monarch. You are basically the same country, only difference being one is posh and cold and the other is wild with amazing weather. EDIT: I want to add more lol basically the USA seems to think they broke free of the horrors of Britain, but it was a parliament which declared war and a parliament which ended it, and had been in power since 1689 before Great Britain even existed. I am half American half English, I love both but have noticed the USA appears condescending sometimes, as if their special relationship with the UK is charity work and they can ditch the UK whenever they want. It’s not Britain thinking it’s better, it’s britain thinking that America thinks it’s better. And I promise you the British media is fucking horrific, and has unfortunately plagued the population into believing the world hates them and they can only rely on themselves. It’s not arrogance, but instead being told that other countries believe you are nothing and you can only rely on yourselves. Brexit shows how much impact the media such as the Daily Mail and the Sun has corrupted the population. The most ironic part is that people equate their reluctance to love America as arrogance, as if they’re too salty to accept the American revolution. I’d like to remind everyone that during British & American occupation of the San Juan islands in 1859, the British celebrated the 4th of July with the US, and the US celebrated Queen Victorias birthday with the UK. That was in fucking 1859. No one in 2022 is bitter besides Americans who are passionate Anglophiles. I promise as someone who sees both sides I can clearly tell the “hostility”. I want to add I truly think the USA and UK are the two most cooperative powers in world history, they are the biggest consumers of eachothers media, news, entertainment, population, and the governments are unbelievably intertwined (militarily and intelligence agencies), to the point where MI6 were entrusted to spy on the USA population and the CIA on the British population to circumvent domestic surveillance laws… and were ironically caught by Der Spiegel, which is German lol. The British media basically insinuates that the USA cares little for Britain yet Britain fights alongside them everywhere. The right wing US media then reaffirms this , with politicians like Trump saying NATO, which was started by Britain, is uneven and a waste of time. But it’s so painfully flawed. Look at any video regarding the sights of the USA & the sights of Britain and you’ll see 10,000+ comments about how much they love eachothers country’s. 9/11 was the biggest terror attack in English history, with around 60 Englishmen dying, and the queen ordered the USA’s anthem to be played by the royal band, which has never been done before in the history of Britain & England besides a state visit. The USA gave $31b to Britain in Lend Lease, which was over $20b more than the USSR who were literally mid invasion against the Nazis and initially losing. The amount of bond these two countries have is staggering, and it’s crazy to think they are even closer today than they were when they were still considered the exact same country.
Canada is a joke, 60% of our elders live in poverty, canada has some of the worst retirement plans in the g7. BUT HEY YOU STILL GOT FREE HEALTHCARE(2 year wait time) WHILE YOU STARVE
I feel like it's something I see among Europeans in general, not just among the British. I see it on the Internet all the time. I'm not even American, Canadian or European. So so stupid to hate a country, a government and it's people *that* much.
@@nicomartinez9951 Pretty sure the idea here isn't that we can't read maps, it's that we can't immediately pinpoint any given country on one. I don't think anyone really thinks that if you gave someone from any country who could read a labelled map and unlimited time that they couldn't find any given country. And the "tests" usually involve unlabelled maps or time limits. And honestly, I don't think it's fair to expect anyone to be able to look at an unlabelled map and pick out any random country no matter how far away it is from them, but some people in the world really do hold us to that standard.
It really just goes to show how insular their thinking is. Canada's healthcare system is perfectly normal for a western democracy, while the USA is a massive outlier. If Canadians think their healthcare system is uniquely special, they must have very narrow horizons which don't go at all beyond the North American continent.
@@alexpotts6520 This may be true, but I can't think of any western democracy that doesn't have pride in its healthcare system. Even in the US, there's pride in the healthcare system, more for its abilities and outcome success, just not it its prices or disparities.
@@ElGrandoCaymano Oh yeah you can and should be proud of an institution that saves lives. Perhaps my criticism is more one of American cultural dominance that means most other western nations first and foremost fuel national pride by comparing their own healthcare systems to a notably bad one, rather than seeking to look at the world leaders to try and work out how they could make their own healthcare systems even better and save even more lives.
Hate is a very strong word, I don’t necessarily think most of the general public hates America, there is definitely some people that do hate America. But who am I to speak for others. I am but one out of a million
I remember when I was living in Austria, how we went to this one girl’s apartment who was Canadian and as soon as I and another American stepped inside, she felt it necessary to tell us that she was not one of those Canadians that hated Americans. It was kind of a weird experience and really a shock to me. I’m from North Dakota and get mistaken as Canadian here in other parts of the US and in Canada because of my accent and I never experienced hatred from Canadians or really knew that there are Canadians with a deep hatred of the US and Americans.
Aside from politicians perhaps, I've never been aware there's any 'deep hatred' at all. The creator may have implied that, but I think it's more of a a Canadian smug feeling of superiority over (aspects of) Americans/American society. Same say with French having the (unjustified/outdated) smug feeling of world superiority about their wines or culinary cuisine. In Europe, there was in the 70s-90s the feeling that Americans demonstrated the same smug superiority feelings, perhaps like the British a century ago and the French a century before that.
@@viviancooper5892 as a black american ive had long winded political conversations with racists and canadian nationalists. Its really hard to explain why I like talking to Nazis so much in comparison to canadians, and the only real way to explain is for one to have experienced it in my shoes.
@@ElGrandoCaymano ha, a smug non-American superiority does exist, believe me; but my experience with it mainly comes from northern Europeans. I'm not sure how much Americans realize how other people follow our news outlets, but they see all the problems come out, and are quick to claim, "oh, my God, I'm a European and am disgusted" (and nothing else) I know that it might seem they're genuinely shocked, but after seeing one after the other comment with nothing but how their European and these problems don't happen there, it becomes clear that they go specifically to American news sites to passive-aggressivly brag about how their country is better than the us. And if you want further proof, once I called them out on it and they (different people) responded by saying things like, "shut up and play with your guns"
@@viviancooper5892 so the young folks hate america that are canadians but i bet their parents wernt canadian because just a generation ago all canadians enved americans
I used to live in Canada, and I remember when we were in school they showed a video highlighting how Canada is unique from the US. It was many years ago, but I remember some things such as the video saying "We have a Parliament, not a White house... we have a better view of Niagra" (which I know is bot really a strong statement in any way, but it's all I remember exactly) and the whole video was angled in a way to make Canada feel unique to and better than the US. I live in the US now, but don't get me wrong, I have fond memories in Canada and love it, but there is that light anti-American sentiment.
I think there is definatly an inferiority complex going on there with certain Canadians that bleeds over onto some parts of public life. You are literally right next to the world's bighest superpower, its a large part of the reason why you are wealthy, and you are under its large shadow. The worst part of it is, America does not even think about Canada...making the inferiority feel even worse.
Like hating your mother as you suck on her tit. Kind of pathetic really. I live in Canada too. Canadians are dumb. We are about to become communist too. But that isn't interesting to JJ so we probably won't see any videos on it.
@@Team_ghost9503Canada is that tall, quiet, wallflower guy in the corner that everyone likes but nobody really thinks about. America is the Chad that blasts into the party with a keg on his shoulder. People find him annoying but he makes the party better and nobody has the guts to stand up to him.
I'm an Australian. America is the super-rich guy who can't even manage his own personal health, so the other rich people who do manage their health stay away and laugh at him. Canada is the rich guy who says "don't laugh I have to live next to that moron"
A lot of the "we're better than the US" ideology has often lead people I know to down play Canadian bigotry, racism and historical awfulness because we're "not as bad as Americans" 🙄
@@eddymaldonado7991 Aren't you the fuckers who literally took First Nation children from there parents and forcibly re-educate them in little "schools" (aka a fucking camp)? Have some fucking shame will you? Grand standing with a marred history like that.
Insecurity: it's easy to spot for everyone except those who are insecure. I've spent a lot of time in Canada over the years and I love Canadians... but this kind of reflexive anti-Americanism rooted in Canadian insecurity is indeed common. As a great public example of this, check out the spoken word performance during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony. It's basically a Canadian artist Shane Koyczan yelling "we're NOT AMERICA, we're BETTER THAN AMERICA" in the most sophomoric and pathetic way possible. The CBC of course called this childishness "spine tingling". Lol.
completely agree with you....HOWEVER, we did beat them that year in the Olympics. I mean definitely it's rude and unneeded, but the fact that in 2010 we hosted it, told the Americans we would win in the most snarky way, and then won. I don't know about you, but that's kind of hilarious.
@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish That is not true at all at least for the past 20ish years the winter olympics top 5 are always Norway, Germany, Canada, USA, and Russia in some order and the Summer games are always US, China, Russia, UK, Germany in some order. In the past 20 years Canada in 2010 and Russia in 2014 are the only countries to top the medal table during their host years. Countries tend to overperform when they host but unless the host country is already really strong in the games they won't be first.
@@tobithetabby6376 Yeah, a lot of it is little rough. I live a few hours from the border, but it's still sparse here. We got a Matrix sequel before 911 and high speed internet lol.
Since the day I moved here, I have noticed that Canadians will literally bend over backwards to do the exact opposite of America where possible. Even if it doesn't make any logical sense.
AL PD well tbh Americans started out by defining ourselves as "Not part of the British Empire" and we collectively made a lot of conscious decisions to reflect that as a culture. Coffee instead of tea, driving on the right hand side of the road, inventing our own sports, etc. So it makes sense that Canada, which started out by defining itself as "Not the United States", would have taken a similar cultural path.
@@definitelynotobama6851 "Coffee instead of tea" What are you talking about, nobody made a conscious decision on this, the only reason coffee became anywhere near as successful in the US (which was over a century after the breakaway) was because the US had more direct control and contact with tropical zones where coffee is commonly grown. "driving on the right hand side of the road" This wasn't conscious either, that just happened out of coincidence, most nations drive on the right side, even Canada does so. The UK, Japan, and a collection of former British colonies are the only nations that drive on the left side, and the US didn't do it because of the UK, it just happened. (which I'm pretty certain was the result of German, French, and Spanish immigrants which make up more then the British populations ever could) "inventing our own sports" Actually this is incredibly ignorant of the history of baseball/cricket, soccer, and football/rugby, none of these sports were invented in the US (alone at least) and they did actually start in the UK and France. Foremost soccer and football used to be the same category of sport and were prominent in both the UK and the US, up into the 1880s or so. After a bit of time a US football (as both soccer and football were called football) organization started developing their own form of football, and between the British and American organizations they worked together to develop soccer. The British rugby organizations that started to crop up ended up not cooperating as much with the American organizations and that's where the split generally ended up happening. As a result football in the US developed independently and was constantly being modified to become more action oriented until you get modern American football. The root of football and soccer were from the same place however and they were developed and invented by both sides of the pond, we did not invent football, we merely modified it slightly. (and its not like we consciously changed it to be different) Cricket has a much similar story, though the divergence is a bit earlier then football. "So it makes sense that Canada, which started out by defining itself as "Not the United States", would have taken a similar cultural path." Not according to what you've said, everything you mentioned happened decades if not a century after Canadian nationalism had already been defined, hell this stuff only existed after the Springtime of Nations where nationalism was revolutionized in Europe, which was well after Canadian nationalism.
@@definitelynotobama6851 LOL, "inventing" seems like a stretch,IMHO, USA sports are simply modified sports taken from UK (Baseball from UK Crkt/roounders; Football from UK Rugby) what do you think?
It is always said ask a Canadian what they think of the US they will tell you what they think and how! Ask an American what they think about Canada, they will say, I don’t think about Canada.
And this highlights the difference between a superiority complex, and a inferiority complex. As JJ mentions, what many of these Canadians who indulge in this type of nationalism are doing is just exposing their own insecurity about Canada vis-a-vis the US. So in the end all they're really doing is insulting both nations simultaneously.
@@redrave404 Personally, I think the level of emphasis we put on "being better than the US" is self-destructive. I don't care that we rank higher than the US in terms of healthcare, I care that we ranked behind Britain, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, etc. We shouldn't be content with our system being second worst.
@@redrave404 Yea I've never understood the inferiority complex thing. Sure, the US economically and militarily is much more superior to Canda, but culturally, we're pretty much the same.
Same here in Southeast Asia. Mainly the non-muslim countries though (but even then, with exceptions such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines, who fought for an independent "Bangsamoro" while also pushing for more leftist policies) Well here in the Philippines, everyone declares themselves as nationalist, but especially the left, as the aim of the left is emancipation from foreign influence/rule and the indigenisation of culture and education, without going back to the pre-colonial social structures It makes a lot of sense though. When oppression of the working classes come from foreign companies, nationalism serves as a way to fight both foreign intervention and oppression of the lower classes While in countries such as Switzerland, the assumption of nationalism is that it serves to degrade the lower classes that generally happen to be of foreign origin. The lower classes already work for Swiss companies, so there isn't a need to fight foreign influence Can't really tell much about Canada so my comment isn't that related with the video as it takes a more "third worldist" view
@@edstar83 ....did you not watch the video lol? Nationalism is not tied to the left or right rather just a appreciation of what makes your nation special. The fact that the fucking nazis of all people started out as "national socialists" aka left wing should allude to this. To say that Leftism leads to "communism" is just ignorant at best and down right wrong. Left wing doesnt lead to anything neither does right wing, it depends on what the nation at that moment deems important that dictates where it goes politically.
Don't you know? Most of Canada is water, so we all travel in boats. We get so comfy in our canoes that we just flood our houses so we can canoe to our kitchens to get our bottle of maple syrup. Clearly he's recording in his canoe.
@@grahamdavis8777 canada is a wasteland of snow and ice in most areas though, it's not unreasonable that they let in fewer immigrants given that they have just (EDIT) a ninth* the U.S. population and more than 80% live in the cities
Still We enjoy the Scandinavians, the Europeans and couple others but the closest lifestyle is USA. Honestly no matter what I would say, United States will be my 2nd option as a place to live.
So, American here -- I was once staying in a hostel in Europe and got talking to a Swedish woman and we got talking about anti-Americanism in Europe. She said and then ranted for about twenty minutes that she found Canadians more annoying because they went out of their way to point out they aren't American when she didn't care as long as you weren't a jerk. Anyways, this video reminded me of that. XD
Yes! I find Canadians in Europe to be extremely obnoxious for this reason. Although I’m always amused by how little Europeans care about Canada, much to the frustration of Canadians who constantly want to explain boring Canadian things to them.
@@dhardy6654 the people I know who travel do not put where they're from on display. They haven't spent thousands of dollars to drag Canada along with them - rather to leave it behind....experience something else. This is what canadians usually do. It's also what Americans do. Just takes a few idiots to crap all over it and ruin it for everyone.
it's funny cuz the same thing is happening in Australia as well. we aren't inherently connected to America like Canada is, but I think since the domination of American media and especially because of how americentric social media is, lately there's been a huge push of pointing out every unique trait we have compared to other western countries. I've heard people saying slang terms that haven't been used in the past 20 years, and I think within the younger generations accents have gotten stronger and people feel the need to dislike America and make a thousand school shooting jokes a day. I've also noticed this in the UK, young people there constantly talk about how 'annoying' Americans are and how amazing British humour is compared to American humour. also this has definitely increased from the advent of social media. literally if you go onto twitter these days, the most popular tweets will be about American news, shops and fast food places, schools etc. and so now people feel the need to compare how good their institutions are to how bad American ones are apparently
Very interesting. I'm a white Zimbabwean living in the states and I find myself consciously trying to hold on to my accent because I get so many compliments and admiration from everyone in the US. The fact that young people outside the states are becoming a little bit more "anti American" is possibly an American culture trend of being anti-American, a result of the baggage of slavery, colonization and destruction of native American lives and broadening wealth disparity that young people feel more strongly about. However, I do see young Americans be more open to Americans talking shit about America - when non Americans talk ill of the US, they are met with combative disagreement sometimes. Kind of how only Brits complain about British weather and don't expect foreigners to agree. I do find people back home to seem opposed to the US but it is more of a jealous insecurity
@@lukerees281 The US appears worse because it is more open about its problems. I was interested in the native american thing when I was younger and apparently 90% of them died through illness before the USA was even created. But they still talk about it way more than us Belgians talk about the Congo, for example. I think it is an admirable quality to "air out your laundry" and I wish we could do that more.
Apparently, you were not paying attention to the US President saying how unfair we were, how badly we took advantage of the USA in trade, and how we are a national security threat because of... aluminum? I gotta say, being shit-talked about how badly we ran the table on Americans in trade kind of made me feel a little badass.
@@melvinklark4088 The rationale for renegotiating NAFTA was that we had somehow taken advantage of the US. "Canada has been very difficult to deal with. They have been taking advantage of the United States for a long time." And similar remarks about how we bamboozled the US in trade. MacLean's documented these and other comments. www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/donald-trump-canada-trudeau-insults/ As for tariffs and Canada being a national security threat, a few months ago US re-imposed protectionist tariffs on Canadian aluminum, and used the pretext of them being a threat to "national security". (Note, these protectionist tariffs were previously levied for not only aluminum but steel, for the same pretext). Of course Canada being a national security threat (if indirectly) was simply an excuse and not believable. Nevertheless, I'm sure a few people bought it because America. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/aluminum-tariffs-trade-trump-trudeau-1.5724391
@@iminyourwalls8309 Of course it goes without saying that appeal to a national security interest was just a pretext to invoke tariffs. But if there was a point to those tariffs, I missed it, as did pretty much every analyst I read. (Mainly it seemed to be a combination of getting tough for the sake of the election, and lobbying by the American aluminum makers who both did feel threatened and one in particular that had billions in Russian aluminum to unload. But if you have some further insight, please feel free to share.) It goes without saying the pretext is more believable if the facts support it, and they did not. Counter-tariffs were therefore much more likely to be allowed. And we made our own point clear: if you start a trade war we know how to make it hurt in ways that will cost you domestic support in your election. But the point I was trying to make is that stereotypically, Americans might think being anti-Canadian is pathetic. It's true, they think this, and we prefer it that way so we continue to be underestimated by them. The US President was anti-Canadian (rhetorically) when it suited him, but found out just how bad a hand he had when he tried to follow through. And this president has fostered a cult of personality, some of his supporters might actually believe this.
I lived in Canada for a few years and boy let me tell you. There's nothing Canadians love more than talking about American politics they know nothing about.
@@jakej2680 But it's just weird that you, who lives in completely different country, would actually give a shit about a completely different country's politics as if it affects you in any way or form. Some people need to stop being fucking nosy
Canadians Today: "It's so nice to see so many foreigners that love Canada, and it's great to see our American neighbors finally embrace other cultures properly like us." Canadians Then: "I dunno man. America's got too many Jews running around in their streets."
As an American I found this video to be very interesting. In the south, we don't really have many negative opinions of Canadians given our distance from you. It's amusing to find out that so many Canadians have disdain for us and envelop so much of their identity to being the antithesis of the USA. Their focus would likely serve them much better if it was concentrated on improving their own country instead of engaging in a one sided competition that the majority of Americans aren't even aware of. Good video.
@@eddymaldonado7991 Oh, you found out that every country has negative aspects to it? I thought every country was a utopia. Thanks for your genius insight.
well, i've learned from the comment section that they're about as smug as the british. Also as jealous of the US as they are. They're also virtue signalers. Pretty hefty damage to my image of them, honestly. And i'm not even american.
@@Epicrandomness1111 the word your looking for: Hippocrates..😉 your welcome. Oh buy the way I'm Canadian and I like the USA. It's great country and even greater people 😊
I'm an American who spent 4 years as an undergraduate in a Canadian university. I find this analysis absolutely accurate and applaud JJ McCullough for his insight. Made many friends during that time but I was shocked at the amount of anti-American prejudice. They chose the worst examples of Americans and took that to be the norm. For example, Americans were supposed to be dumb-- I think there are smart and dumb people in every country. It's called being human. Most Canadians I met accepted Republican propaganda that Republican = American. And they took for granted that they shared a 3,000 mile unprotected border with the US from which they had no fear of any military threat. I can go on. On the other hand then and now I've held on to a great admiration for Canada for its achievements as a free society. The effect of my stay led me to notice and challenge my own parochialisms. For example, as a New Yorker I had always resented California as a rival. I realized this was the same kine of reaction that I had encountered in Canada against the US. I went to California and decided to live there, I consider myself both a New Yorker and a Californian. And part Canadian.
Very insightful. I've only been to Canada once, but being from the Midwest, I've met many Canadians who share the same attitude toward the US you describe. I think it's kind of sad really, because I see our nations as brothers. Each are flawed, but both are brilliant in their own way. Most left-wing Americans (of which I consider myself to be) don't look at Canada's flaws at all. They only see the universal healthcare, relaxed marijuana laws, and less-war focused nationalism, but they don't see the crippling oppression of Indigenous people, political corruption at the Provincial level, the exploitation of the banking industry on disenfranchised nations, the high child homelessness rate, or the casual bigotry and racism that pervades their culture as much as ours. These flaws don't make me hate Canada, but they do reinforce the fact that our countries are no where near as different as Canadians like to think we are. People always assume I would prefer to live in Canada because I'm liberal. Absolutely not. I said that's like trading the home where our problems get addressed out in the open and we work to fix them and fight for a better society for the home where problems are often swept under the rug in the name of defining yourselves by who you aren't. No, thank you.
I don’t know. I deal with Canadians on a semi-regular basis. I know they are Canadian, and they know I’m an American. With more avid users of the internet, people just don’t care. As the two nations are interdependent politically, economically, and digitally, people are bound to connect across the border more often than across the ocean. Then it gets to a point where, it’s hard to hate Americans when 1/3 of your friends are Americans. Just like it’s hard to hate Canada when 5 of your best friends are Canadian. It’s easier to hate people without an expansive social circle, but once it’s established, it’s much more difficult. That’s just the way it is.
The Japanese actually have an identity to be proud of. They are not dependent on us for their sense of self. I can understand why Canada has this problem, I nearly feel sorry for them…
Um, Canada is much, much, MUCH younger than Japan. Canada has its own history and identity, much of which Canadians don't know about, and a lot of our culture is co-mingled with the US. But I get it, it's easier to just get your entire opinion about something you've never even thought about for a second off one TH-cam video.
I am an American and I was on a flight home from Montreal Canada. We had a delay and I am rather chatty so I started talking to the Canadian passenger next to me. At some point she started talking about how much she hated America with vary blatant and wrong stereotypes. She was so passionate that she was almost yelling.. I finally understand where so much hatred was coming from. Thank you!
@@cheaze69 That would only reinforce negative American stereotypes (that of us being a violent people). As for the OP, if she hated America so much, why was she flying here. LOL. I would never visit a country I hate. You won't see me in China any time soon. (note I don't hate the Chinese people before someone calls me a racist).
A friend of mine works in a Florida vacation resort and he says Canadians are the most annoying guests and the staff hates them, they're constantly going on about how much better Canada is than America and he always replies with "well why do you keep coming to America to vacation every year? I don't know anybody who goes on vacation to Canada" lol
Yeah, it really sticks out. He's obviously faking it because sometimes he'll slip up and say it in the more conventional way. I honestly don't think there's a distinctly Canadian accent because Canada spans such a wide area, geographically speaking. An Albertan is going to speak differently than an Ontarian, who is going to speak differently than a Newfoundlander, etc.
JJ is paid to lead the sheeple. what is that you say Canada just became communist. well someone must distract them on youube then. maybe in a few years you will wake up and see or maybe you won't.
As a Canadian, living in the US and having to endure Anti-Americanism, every time I go home...(including people spitting on my car and telling me I am not a real Canadian)....you have satisfied my curiosity about the roots of this powerful force of hatred leveled at me, my children, my friends and neighbors (just for living in the US).... you have given me a deeper understanding of how the divisions feed off each other and hope for the future which frankly will come from people like you. It is really like other kinds of polarizations that exist in the world and the challenges all humanity is facing. This video was a beautiful gift to me as I work on compassion for all people. Thank you. You are brave.
@Canuk Kun that’s a shit take, location doesn’t dictate character the individual does. I was surprised to find such an attitude in Canada but your comment is confirmation.
Civic nationalism is the only true nationalism. It could also be called Resistance Nationalism. It's "wingless" because it opposes oppressors from all sides, whether from the left, right, or anywhere else. Of course, anyone who supports gun control can't realistically claim to be any sort of freedom fighter, so a Resistance nationalist should advocate civilian ownership (and mastery) of modern weaponry. It's a philosophy and mentality similar to the Czech Resistance during World War II. *Note:* "Levied" would be a better word than "leveled."
Gotta divert all of that cultural xenophobia into something. The US has central Americans, the Canadians have the Americans, and the quebecoise have everyone.
I've been saying this for so long. I hate this smug view Canadians have about ourselves. That we are somehow inherently better than the states when in all practicality we are almost mirrored societies. Any time I've ever been to the states the people have been just as friendly and welcoming as where I live in Canada. Like some imaginary line that runs through our continent somehow dramatically changes who we are as people
I went to college in Alaska, and we had lots of western Canadian students. I never heard them say anything bad about the US. On the other hand, they despised eastern Canada.
@@Professional_street_hustler Other than the South Park movie and Trump complaining about Trudeau, I can't remember hearing Americans complain about Canadians, either. Canada has a pretty good reputation in the USA.
Awesome pathway and great ending choice! 👏 Being canadian as a kid was the best before this country turned into an extreme hypocritical liberal shithole. Now I'm going to the US to make up for weird canadian times and to continue my life in the U.S the way I remembered canada before 9/11.
As an Australian, I thought the rivalry between Canada and the US was similar to Aus and NZ, like two brothers that pick on each other, but also has a deep love for one another and feels protective of them. But watching this, I can say I had no idea it was this bad.
It's very much the big brother that everyone knows and is famous and infamous around town, and then the little brother that wants some recognition so they just do everything the opposite of the big brother. The big brother calls occasionally and is glad to catch up, but after the phone call the little brother is bitching about how annoying it is to talk to their big brother.
@@janeeire2439Idk about British people but most Americans really like the UK while also having a friendly rivalry with them. Like a younger brother who managed to become the bigger and more successful of the two so he likes to tease the older brother, but obviously still loves him and would always be there for him. I mean honestly it’s the same with Canada, I don’t know any Americans that think negatively of Canada. But according to this video they just sound like whiny snakes. Let’s stop trade and protection of them and see how quickly they start crying foul. The US has always saved them a seat at the big boy tables, (I mean that literally, look up the G7 story), and they make their whole personality being not American. Pathetic
@@XXXTENTAClON227 do you actually believe that theories? Quality of life on paper? I see many people living good in the US. I also see many Canadians moving to the USA . They said Americans rank very low in happiness, but no one i know of was surveyed. Man don't believe these statistics. You have to live both places to know
@@otterno.1128 At least Scotland has a different language and long history of independence from England. Canada and NZ can't say the same about the US and Australia respectively.
I was on vacation in Cancun, Mexico, and I was sharing the hot tub with a bunch of Canadians. They were there the same days I was, so we were vacation buddies, I guess? Anyway, they did a lot of shit talking of America, like it was almost pathological. I agreed with some and brushed off others, but it was a little weird sometimes. They definitely all had the left wing Canadian nationalism you're describing
Nolan Martin Hmmm idk a lot of people do respect the power of the US and I have literally never heard Canada come up in a conversation while I was in Europe.
@ Maybe because we look like a genius compared to the US. Nobody respects America. Americans use to travel with Canadian Flags so people were nice to them in the middle east lol
Next time that happens if you want to go for the safe bet shut them up just ask them when was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley cup or if there from Vancouver just bring up the 2011 Stanley cup finals or if you want to go for the more risky subject start making fun of treudeu either for his black facing or gun control act or basically anything he does there’s like a 50% chance it will work and they will let you join in on the banter or you will find out they are anti American extremists in witch case don’t worry about them
The thing is, I lived in West-Germany, and there, USA was somehow seen as the place of everything cool like pop music, movies, Disney, fun, while Canada was seen as a place of wide space, lumberjacks, and vast land where you could do whatever you want because you saw anybody else...Thank you for this video for showing a new perspective.
I've always thought of Canada as our best friend. We speak the same language, have a lot of the same culture and history, yet still are able to maintain distinct identities. I don't think I'll ever understand why some of them hate us so much.
@MasterSanders Umm...I hate to be THAT person, but just a decade or so ago, Canadians were very much "bashed" and looked down upon by many Americans. No one is innocent here.
This reminds me of a Reddit post I saw, it was something like “Non Americans of Reddit, what were you surprised by when visiting American” And a bunch of people had no idea it wasn’t some crazy gun filed religious hell house
I hear you man. When I was in high school there were a lot of "Americans are so dumb" jokes getting tossed around, but that was just high school, right? Wrong, I'm 29 and people my age and older still act like high school teenagers constantly talking shit about Americans. It's pathetic, because a lot of these people are more concerned about anti-Americanism and other BS politics rather than on working towards a career and improving their lives.
Yeah, it’s always confused me that people can hate Canada or that some Canadians hate Americans, it’s just a waste of time. We should be the best of friends
I've spent a lot of time hanging with Canadians; I've heard it all. One of the most common themes is the persistence of US war plans to attack or invade Canada, with the implication that it's only a matter of time (the US has contingency plans to attack or invade just about everybody). And, of course, the War of 1812, which US citizens hardly ever think about at all except as a historical footnote associated with our national anthem. As a liberal who prefers a lot of modern Canadian government policies to US ones, I can sympathize with many aspects of anti-US Canadian nationalism, but I do think it can serve as a barrier to introspection. Many of the worst aspects of US politics arise from the legacy of slavery, and for Canada to have avoided that to the same degree is to a large extent a matter of luck (a climate less suited to the specific types of agriculture that made slavery extremely profitable) rather than some inherent moral superiority.
You are genuinely the personification of this comment section becoming a hate boner for Canada. You are honest to god reakky taking this video, which already poorly blurred the lines of how Canadians view American State Vs American People (Canadians love Americans btw). Using an already poorly structured video as a footstool to your poor narrative does not make it piece together more, it just makes it layered with more bullshit. No Canadian would ever think America would INVADE us, you might get stupid person from Alberta Who will say: "We just need the States to Invade us become a part of them", when in reality what they are suggesting is Annexation or Seceding, yet they are too uneducated to know what those mean.
Not to mention they never had the struggle to actually free slaves in the bloodiest war of their country. Canadians act as if the literal sacrifices of soldiers in the Union wasn't enough to wipe away the debt.
If there was some amazing mineral deposit found in Canada someone would invade but now they can just pay of a Canadian politician and China can own part of Canada so no need to fire a bullet. All the politicians are there to wad their pockets. Canada is a shithole of dumb people. It is also about to become communist but JJ won't cover that it is not part of his agenda leading the sheeple.
@@alexh4319 dude, when china isn’t violating it’s citizens rights it’s trying to take as much power away from India and America as possible. Look up the belt and road initiative.
people will vote for anyone who strokes their anti America inferiority complex. All a corrupt third world government has to do these days is say "America bad" and it'll get reelected with flying colors. kinda pathetic really.
Mate, thank you. I'm an American and I had a former British friend who's plan was "Woo me by telling me Britain is so much better than the evil American empire." I used to feel bad calling her a nationalist because she's about as left as one could get. I know she isn't Canadian but this video hit home for me. Here's hoping for more good relations between our countries. 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
@@newwaveinfantry8362 Towards some of there colonies yes, but when they colonized them and how they treated india taxing 80 percent causing famines. Not saying there the most evil but they weren't the best when it came to there other colonies.
Correct me if im wrong but there’s a lot of left wing nationalism around the world like Irish Republicanism, Catalonian nationalism and Basque nationalism
Bruh moment #2 Absolutely right, as JJ explained, nationalism can be anywhere on the political spectrum, but unfortunately conservatism and nationalism tend to be conflated in Western culture (and even more unfortunately with racial superiority thanks to Hitler...)
tbotnoblett Irish Republicanism is the independence movement for Ireland. Nowadays the irish republican movement calls for the reunification of Northern Ireland to Ireland and its considered a nationalist movement.
Everyone who's saying that Canada is obsessed with a country that doesn't care about Canada should realize that this is just natural. This happens everywhere. You have a similar relationships between Austria and Germany, Luxembourg and its neighbors and notoriously almost every country surrounding Russia with Russia.
In the case of Austria, I think the push to create a cultural differentiation between Austria and Germany, despite being both ethnically and linguistically being German and being united under a single polity (the Holy Roman Empire) for most of their history, is driven by the association of pan-Germanism with the Nazis. Ever since the Nazis, there's been a real push in both Germany and Austria to not define nationality along ethnic or linguistic lines, which creates a push to create a national identity in Austria that is separate and distinct from the rest of the German-speaking world.
Found this very interesting but was left a little disappointed that you didn't address where Quebec fits into this picture of Canadian Nationalism. The very existence of Quebec makes the concept of Canadian nationalism even more interesting.
Can’t say Canada is united, perpetual request from Québec to get more indépendance, from Alberta to be more conservative, from BC to be more environmental.etc
There are certain cultural things beyond political structure that tie Canada together, east-west. But overall, the Maritime Provinces are similar to northern New England, Ontario to the Mid-West (which includes some prominent cities), the Praire Provinces to the Prairie States (conservative cowboys who love oil...), and British Columbia to the Pacific NW. Sure, there are British instititions and cultural artefacts... but America has those too (maybe fewer that date to the 19th or 20th centuries, but still). And even that left wing spirit not only ignores how conservative parts of Canada are, but how liberal parts of America are. In fact, the brand of liberalism in Canada is hugely American-influenced. The major American cities and Canadian cities are similarly liberal, and their rural areas similarly conservative. Even peculiarly American conservative ideas like the 2nd amendment seep over because these people share a language and media space. And in the end, British North America already has a lot in common as evidenced in the name.
One of the great life experiences I had: living abroad (both in China and Korea) and both times, all my roommates were Americans. Not only was I absorbing the new cultures of these countries, I was fortunate to have brothers at my side. When I was alone, in another country, as a Canadian, I didn't have confidence that the Canadian government would be able to save me if I happen to step out of bounds, so I lived very anxiously for a bit; but, my friend, from a location south to my biological birthplace , he had faith and belief that if an American citizen was unlawfully detained in another country, the United States of America and the Constitution would protect him and his liberty. I was and am still envious of that. The two Michaels are still detained in China. Huawei and other CCP backed companies are actively promoting their spyware on Canadian television. Canada isn't any better than USA. The biggest problem with Canadian's is that we typically prop ourselves up and use the American's as an opportunity to virtue signal, while we continue to ignore the poison water in the reservations of Canada's first people.
Americans are very protective of their own lol. And I mean that in a citizenship, not ethnicity, way. Obama was notorious for warmongering and bombing the shit out of the Middle East but his final nail in the coffin was when he ordered a strike on an American citizen visiting his grandfather in Yemen. After that, anyone with enough brain cells to not be brainwashed by the media lost all respect for him.
Thank you for your kind words! It's hard to hear people, especially those we consider to be our brothers from the north, bash us. I try to remember that it's prolly for a reason and sadly not all Americans who go abroad are nice people so that why we make a bad impression. I'm happy to hear you had a good experience with some of us and your travels over all were great!
Huh...I never thought about it like that, yea if I were wrongly imprisoned I always feel like my people and my Government would be up in arms. And I wouldn't say better then USA, I'd more base your worth on the great things you do that make your people happy and healthy. That also includes addressing issues of the nation in my book too, America has to tangle with that plenty!~ Much love my Canadian buddy!
In Scotland we two types of nationalism British nationalism which is seen as right-wing and very similar to nationalism in North England and Northern Ireland. We also have Scottish Nationalism which is seen as more left-wing and anti-British and pro-EU (Very similar to Irish nationalism in Northern Ireland) I actually find it quite funny how pro-EU some “nationalists” are considering the EU is very anti-nationalist
Seems unfair to call the North England nationalist. It's all over England. And there are exceptions in the north such as Liverpool which is a left wing Labour city. With Irish roots which sees it self as not English
Yeah it's funny how British nationalists tend to be very Pro American and very anti European even though America got its independence not really to the likeing of the UK.
Fusilier Thresher yeah if Scotland ever became independent (god fucking help us if we do) I’d imagine the SNP would change their name as being labelled national socialist wouldn’t exactly go well with the rest of the world
@@don-jx2xn here in Spain it's even more complicated than that. We have Spanish nationalism, which is seen as (and is) right-wing and then we have Catalan and Basque nationalism/independentism, each one with a left-wing and a right-wing political party (the two right-wing independentist political parties in this regions, the Catalan European Democratic Party and the Basque Nationalist Party, have taken a very sharp turn to the left in the last few years though, so I would hardly call them right-wing now).
My mom's side of the family is Canadian and I've talked to lots of other Canadians about this as well and a lot of the stuff they believe about America is legitimately insane, like a majority of them literally believed Vladimir Putin directly ran our government under the last administration; words cannot describe how unfathomably stupid, ignorant, and completely detached from reality you'd have to be to believe stuff like that. Sadly Canada is suffering from the same devastating issue as America where the media is a straight up propaganda arm for one party as opposed to actually being objective and balanced. This only fuels nationalism, which I really hate. The global living standard would be significantly higher if we could all just freely trade with one another, working together instead of squabbling like children.
@@Advanced4Head Lmao Barbox not understanding that it doesn't matter whether they care or not when regardless they have to pay you roughly what your market value is 🤡. Sounds like you're just pissed that we all see you as worthless, maybe learn to be a better negotiator or try making yourself a better canidate instead of crying to random strangers on the internet lol. Also btw almost half of all jobs in the US are supplied by small business owners and nearly all of them genuinely care about their employees, I certainly care about mine, thank you for proving though you have zero understanding of basic economics and are ideed a 🤡 thanks for the laugh I appreciate it :)
@@Advanced4Head why should they? Does anyone care about the roofers fixing their home past them doing a good job and being safe? Like I hope they have a wonderful life and never get hurt but I can't say I truly care about them. Its the same with an employee.
As a New Zealannder, I always knew this. We are tought about the wars the British Empire fought, and in them we were tought about the wars and skirmishes between Canada, and US. Canada is so similar to New Zealand, Australia, and many other Commonwealth Realms, we also continued to side with the British Empire and Her Majesty. Though my country is by far a British Majoriy, and many New Zealanders actually hate the French. We will always see an ally in Canada, and will always hold similar views to the US (Not as Anti-US as you lot).
@Luís Filipe Andrade nah, we have a relationship like your provinces with one and another, or American states with one and another. We are like family, but in that we're very competitive against each other, and talk alot of sh*t against each other but that's just banter, we hold Australia and Britain as our strongest allies, and have Canada just below, we're brothers in arms, but Britain and partially Australia are our strongest allies.
I am an American who lived in Vancouver BC in the 90s and have lived in the UK since 2006. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. They speak to my experience, especially this one. When living in Canada, I remember going to the doctor for the first time and the doctor actually called someone else in the room to hear my deep southern accent- I was asked multiple times about how I dealt with the influence of the KKK (!) and the lack of indoor plumbing (!!!!)- and I do remember being in a movie theatre watching Independence Day - the moment that the White House gets obliterated by aliens there was a standing ovation in the theatre- quite an eye-opening experience for an American from a conservative part of the country who had always been taught the USA was the world's great hope
I’m proud to be a Canadian, I think it’s a pretty nice country. But I don’t see the point in hating the United States though, that’s not helping anyone.
USA is a rough place to live, it has an authoritarian regime, and the president is basically racist (hated mexicans and muslims), I don't think anyone normal should respect racism, also there is basically no free healthcare etc...so basically USA is just a weird neighbour of Canada, kinda the opposite.
@@rakijaenjoyer5488 You'r the kind of person that causes racism, Trump is no racist, and when you're drunk on Vodka, you're listening to LEFT WING BIAS CBC OR GLOBAL NEWS, you need AA to sober up and find out who you are.......right now you are a jealous sick puppy. Stupid does what stupid says.
@@commenterjosh2428 i wouldn't go, it's damn cold up there. splitting based on political lines is stupid anyway, splitting based on cultural region and affinity with a political spark like how oil is foreseen to become too expensive to use in about 35 years or a least-popular president in a four way tie winning is the real shit.
In my country south Korea nationalism is a left-wing thing too. Because right wing in South Korea is essentially just anti-communism. So they detest North Korea. And they either aim for total destruction of North Korea or status quo under US-S.Korea alliance. They never believe in the idea of having dialogue to solve the North Korean issue. They consider North Korea to be something that can only be dealt with by force and pressure. On the other hand the left wing party is very nationalistic. Their whole existence is based on unifying the Korean people under one nation. And they aim to achieve it with any cost. Some extremists even support the idea of forming federation with the North under Kim's rule as long as we can become one sovereign nation. They don't value US-S.Korea alliance that much and they even think it's something that we can give up in exchange for reunification. So when we look at our politics we waste so much time talking about North Korea and not about the things that actually matter to the ordinary people.
Michael K Another form of left-wing nationalism in South Korea is anti-Japanese sentiment mostly due to Korea's brutal history when it was part of the Japanese Empire.
Michael K I’ve noticed this about South Korea too, and it seems very annoying to me in a way that reminds me of Canada. I should do a video on countries that remind me of Canada
@@ekmalsukarno2302 Yes that is very true. They try to use anti-japanese sentiment to fuel nationalistic sentiment among the people so that people pay more attention to reunification and give them more votes... That's why it's very difficult to keep good relationships with Japan.. which is very sad.
Michael K The reason anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea is a form of left-wing nationalism is because anti-Japanese sentiment is rooted in anti-imperialism.
Really unfair characterization of nationalism in South Korea. Most South Koreans are nationalists, but of the ethnonationalist variety. They value the nation over the geopolitical entity, which is Korea. All parties in Korea are based around unifying the Korean nation. So to say the right is not nationalistic is just unfair and disingenuous. If anything, the left may not be as in uniting the two countries because they perceive ethnonationalism as fascistic and that integrating the North is hopeless.
You're a rare Canadian gem. As an American that has traveled quite a bit to Canada, I was surprised at how the anti-american sentiment was so strong in everyday life of Canadians. We tend to have this rosey, cousin-like view of Canada, and that was beaten (not physically) out of me while visiting. Kind of turned me off to returning soon, honestly.. So glad to find your channel!
@@breakingfree7244 not really personal attacks.. just a lot of passive aggressive statements and more than average comparisons on how much better Canada is than the US. They all seem very obsessed with everything US but focus one the bad a lot in general conversation, and they REALLY hated when I said that Canada feels exactly like the states in almost every way.. 😂 One waitress asked me if I was visiting to escape “the hell that is the states” and I said that “everyday life is nothing like what you see in the news and life is great!”… she seemed kinda upset to hear that, but delivered in that pure Canadian “friendly” passive aggressive kinda way. I genuinely think they really want us to talk about how awful life/the country is at every opportunity and they really get a rise out of it.. haha. That being said, I love Canada and my Canadian friends. Just a weird dynamic up there.
@@breakingfree7244 for context, this was in a fairly small town in Alberta, so what you said is spot on. Same things happens here in the more rural areas. My prior visits to Vancouver and Toronto were pretty typical north American big cities with all the familiar charm and flaws of our big cities. There was less small talk with strangers and I didn’t get much of those vibes. However, I never advertised I was from the states after those first couple visits to Alberta haha
JJ I’ve always agreed with your accurate assessments on how Canadas this crazy Left-wing country that’s scared of America. Myself, I’m pro USA in every way. I always think Canadas Nationalism should be as well.
War of 1812 = officers mostly from UK, enlistee militiamen mostly from Canada. The only precedent to the Jan. 6th 2021 insurrection by seditionist insurrectionist traitors attacking DC was in War of 1812 by Canadian's loyal to Britain. Not British from Britain loyal to the UK, but Canadians from Canada loyal to the UK. Lesson To Be Learned = Only North Americans can be the undoing of North American countries (Also, its not being 'pissy' of Canadians for having better socio-political institutions than the USA, its just stating facts to arrogant neighbors.)
@@prismaticplurality5151 Jesus, man, read between the lines! That's what I was eluding to when I said "Early 19h century transport logs...are cited where?" You honestly saying that a mere 4,500 soldiers, as battle hardened professionals as they were, did that amount of damage (not just referring to Washington burning!) in that short amount of time to a population of 7-10 million? The 4500 were the only ones who were accurately RECORDED because of the logistics involved in getting them over the pond in the age of sails...Maybe in my initial comment I should've specified the word "officer" as being both commissioned AND NCO's. British military leadership in War of 1812 = 4,500 (sure, entire leadership showed up at the actual battle of Washington DC). They commanded/led the MAJORITY of the force which comprised of non-NCO enlistees (which were a hell of alot more than a mere 4500) but, being as how they were north american militiamen scrounged up toward the end of the war, not nearly as well counted. Hence my comment about looking for the transport records since, upon one finding them and APPLYING "basic-ass" COMMON SENCE, one sees that the numbers don't add up. Canadian historians have mentioned this discrepancy in documentaries once or twice over the years.
🧀We've begun a cheese smuggling operation from the UP into Ontario using submarines and stealth technology, in exchange for maple syrup. Would you like a slice of the action? 🧀🤠
Have you ever been to Canada and tasted our Canadian cheese? Tastes awful! It's pure crap! If you had, you would understand why the Canadian dairy industry needs the 270% dairy tariffs just to survive! They have made it very hard to find American cheese here in Canada. Most 'American' cheeses in Canada are actually made in Canada.
As an American, I never knew Canadians hated us. Yes there are a few Americans that hate Canada, but we really thought that they were chill and were friends.
I feel like JJ is giving people the impression that there’s this sentiment in Canadian media that America sucks and we’re activity cultivating that hatred. But our media is almost entirely American. We go on Reddit, watch the news, read papers - even in Japan, people talk more about how shitty Americas culture is today. But we’re all mostly getting it from American media, not ours. People look at the US now and see it as a symbol of modern decline. Canada is afraid of that decline and being pulled down, whether real or hyperbole. We don’t hate Americans, not really, but America kind of scares us. I’ve got no praise for Canada though - it’s the blandest, most lethargic country I’ve lived in.
Awesome video, JJ. I’m a Brazillian who lives in Canada since 2018 and I can feel the anti-americanism. Honestly, I find it a little pathetic. U.S. is such a great country and was built on strong values and beliefs that, unfortunately, we don’t see that much around these days
@@jamienote I've found that people who learn a new language are often more careful with their grammar, having learned it at a later age. Like you, who dropped the t in "most" lol
As an American, im calling bs. This country was founded on lies and slavery. I don’t think Canada is any better, but america isn’t some magical good holy land by any means lmao. As someone who’s lived and seen the horrible parts of this country, it is not built on strong values. It’s a lie. It’s Hollywood. None of it’s real.
L P That’s not true. Incorrect. A falsity. What else do you need to hear? Canadian conservatism is far different than American republicanism. So a lot of Canadian right wing do not like the USA. They like Canada. They support universal healthcare. And so on.
How about we send America's left-wingers to Canada, and you send your conservatives to the USA? Then we'll sit back and see how well each nation prospers.
As an American, I've always considered Canadians to be so similar to us. We basically have the same culture. I am constantly surprised to find out how an actor or a band I enjoy are actually Canadian. They've been so ingrained into my own culture, that I've mistaken them for being my own culture. We really just have and share a "North American" culture.
It's funny; I knew they hated the US, but at the same time I was raised on stereotypes of Canadians as friendly, brotherly neighbors who are kind and altruistic to an comedic level.
We definitely do not hate the United States. Eastern Canadians are culturally more united with North Eastern Americans than other parts of the US are with each other.
Canadians don't hate the US. I mean a few might, but that's not part of the ethos. It's more like Canada has this smug superiority complex when it comes to the US.
Thank you for this video. It has helped me to tie together a lot of thoughts and concerns about our two countries that I've had for a while now. I say "our" because I live in Canada, married to an American wife. The two countries are dear to me, as are many people in both places. My wife gets treated differently- mostly poorly- when people here find out that she's American, even though she is culturally indistinguishable until it's pointed out. It is a source of endless frustration to me. Canadians are proud, bordering on smug, of our international reputation for being "nice". However, I have come to understand that as a group, we are not. How can we truly be, when we are assholes to our closest and best allies? I wish more people from both countries could get to know each other. I feel the same way about people from all kinds of different social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Because when we know someone who is an "other", we find out that individuals often have a lot in common, and it is much harder to vilify them, as most Canadians do Americans. I'll be showing this to some of the people I know. I'm proud of being Canadian, but I'm looking for other reasons than simply being "not American". Please make a video about that. /Rant
Our "closest neighbour" literally hates us at the moment. Trump is more than willing to destroy Canadian relations to stay in power; I'm perplexed as to why you're essentially defending our captor.
I agree, we are assholes and display an egregious sense of smugness and false superiority that is totally unjustified. Canadians are so fucked up about their relationship with the US that they display this false bravado which in many instances is a cover for a sense of inferiority and insignificance. Like the South Park joke...blame it on Canada, nobody cares... The other not so nice Canadian trait is passive aggression, because we dislike direct confrontation we tend to “backdoor” our adversaries. Nice.
Canada is a CIA Black site. Canada has been used as a staging ground for CIA social experimentation and mind control since the late 80’s/ early 90’s. Think about it… Ask any American what they know about Canada and they will tell you it’s a land of lollipops and rainbows. Isn’t it funny how Canada is the 10th largest economy in the world, yet no one knows anything about it? If you want to hide something put it in plain sight.
@@independentthought3390 Yes, but I'm talking wide-scale social experimentation. As in, on large bodies of ordinary citizens living day-to-day lives. I think what you're referring to are controlled experiments with only a handful of people.
@@independentthought3390 Canada is really the best place to test and perfect social engineering models. No one cares to even think about Canada, so if something did go horribly wrong up there, no one would even notice. When's the last time you heard something negative about Canada domestically? Nothing that happens in Canada escapes its borders. A perfect prison.
I dream of the day when we get our very own "Emperor Mengsk" and this failure of a "Dominion" turns into an ACTUAL Dominion. @ Brett Stafanishin Canadian Citizen here, wow, I had no idea that I had no way of communicating with the outside world, then this entire "TH-cam" site must be some CIA fake. Hell maybe the entire "Internet" as I know it is fake? Oh god I'm having a Truman Crisis!
That would be a good explanation if their healthcare set-up costed their economy more proportionally than the US healthcare set-up costs the US economy when all measurable consequences are taken into account, but it doesn't.
I have reputable sources within the Canadian government that would refute your refutation. (However, comment sections are no place for such debates, so I will leave it at that)
@@compulsiverambler1352 The explanation being that in the USA we pay a lot for health care AND defense. In Canada you pay very little for defense because you live next door to the most powerful country in the world ...a friendly country that guarantees your security and makes your way of life possible.
@@fernandoamy8278 If I ever went to Canada, being right next to the USA would definitely not be the reason I would feel safe. The USA has made enemies that want to attack it and have attacked it; Canada hasn't.
I love Canada. It's beautiful! With mostly nice people. But I did find that everyone was weirdly defensive when visiting in my mid-20s. Once people knew I was from 'Merica, there was an ever-present need to juxtapose everything we did, talked about, etc. against it. It was so fucking weird. Like their whole worldview was fastened to perceptions of 'difference' between the two nations. It made it difficult to actually enjoy the country. Having said that, I've been since and while I still have those experiences, it's not nearly as profound. Maybe due to my age???
....because Canadians have never really had a very strong national identity! That's what you get when you let "others" define your national character for you! Yes, you can blame Britain and colonialism for that one! (Unlike Canadians, Americans have been creating their own path and defining themselves since before 1776!) You can see proof of all of this any time you ask any Canadian "What makes you Canadian?" You'll find that most will answer "We're not Americans!"
Ah so this is why Alberta is the most “American” province. We voted for the Conservative party to run our provincial government for 40 years in a row...
I noticed Canadian flags on the backpacks of Canadians in Europe in 1990. Few other backpackers felt the need to fly a national flag while on holiday. I asked a Canadian why they did, and he replied, "So, we don't get mistaken for Americans".
There was a strange woman in CDG airport wearing a jacket with red maple leaves all over it, and underneath a red sweatshirt with a giant white maple leaf, I'm not kidding. We were on our way to the states and she literally screamed at the gate staff when they asked for her passport that she was NOT AMERICAN and Canadian (in English, not French of course). I felt like I was in a skit, she was so unhinged I hoped not to be anywhere near her on the plane. I'm just happy she outed herself and was thrilled she wasn't one of us!
The idea of a Canada trying to NOT trade with the US is absolute hilarity. The Canadians don’t even have the navy to protect their shipping routes. They rely on the US for that. The US Navy would be smirking as it guarded their temper tantruming cargo ships on their way to pick up some totally non-American goods from somewhere that couldn’t trade with them without us. Bitterness. That’s the word on the tip of my tongue as I watch this. The identifying characteristic of Canadian anti-Americanism is bitterness. They’re bitter at our strength that gives us relative immunity to world concerns and they don’t think us morally “worthy” of that strength even as they live and thrive beneath its benefits. The fact remains that if Canada broke apart or went destitute, the US wouldn’t take very much of a hit from it, maybe import some educated refugees and get cheaper raw goods, that’s it.. ..but if the US broke apart or went destitute? Canada dies. It would kill the Canada dead. They’re bound to our fate, but we aren’t bound to theirs. ..and they’re bitter over it. I’d gladly keep their bitterness if it meant keeping the power in our hands, which looking at the state of Russia and China and the EU, looks like will be what the world gets for the next century, more American power. Some Canadian bitterness is a welcome trade for that and we’d trade for it every time. The world is heading into an economic hurricane, by the end of it the Canadian smugness will have broken and they’ll be sheepishly thankful for the spot they hold when they compare how America’s friends are living to the images of famines on their TV. We are..inevitable. So is a future of fresh Canadian humility in our relationship. There’s nowhere else for them to turn. Honestly, I wish Canadians had the relationship with the US that most Americans think the US has with Canada. If most Americans knew how most Canadians really felt, being Canadian would get extremely unpleasant. If there was suddenly political will in the US to start hurting Canadian feelings? Yeah. We could make it suck up there. It’s only the general American sense of goodwill and camaraderie that most of my countrymen that don’t live on the border like I do mistakenly think exists between our two people that has left the Canadian smugness towards the United States unanswered. If it keeps growing, and if it keeps going mainstream like it has been, they’re gonna get that answer, and I imagine it’ll get quieter after that.
@@millevenon5853 I'm not Irish but I live in Dublin, I would say most of the Irish feel kind of bitter towards the UK when it comes to their history, to tell you the truth Britain screwed Ireland over pretty badly in the past. And it gets even more awkward considering Northern Ireland is part of the UK and many of the Northern Irish feel loyalty the the UK; a lot even call themselves British. But there are plenty of British people living in Ireland, and many Irish people living in Britain, and no one is really treated differently. It's more of a history thing than a current thing, and the people themselves certainly aren't vilified over it.
@@millevenon5853 again I'm not Irish but I wouldn't blame some random dude from London for something the British government did before he was born. That's dumb.
J.J. McCullough you are one of my favourite TH-camrs and you are definitely one of those TH-camrs where i would go immediately to one of your videos once you upload
@@JJMcCullough Hey dude I'm very very left wing but I love your channel anyways, you do a great job at separating your own opinion from facts, I think a lot more political channels should learn a lot from you
As a former Canadian, current American, this is a really weird idea. Many left-wing Americans are also very pro-Canadian and anti-American, talking about all the ways Canada is better. It’s really not all that different, but alright. EDIT: this is my most liked comment now what EDIT 2: What th
@@JJMcCullough True. Although I guess an actual "utopia" (or at least close enough to it) would be a mix of all the good stuff from America, Canada, and Japan. Also, left-wing here...
Mopscrub canada isnt any different from america, and I hate when people try their best to seem more significant by hating on others. Lets hope for people to be much kinder to others.
@@JJMcCullough Not necessarily, JJ. There may be some truth to that, but in my case, it is admiration not only of certain social policies that are mostly lacking here in the US (universal health care, for instance) but also of a sense of greater social solidarity in Canada than is true here in the US. Just peruse some of the comments from a couple of Americans here that they don't know why they should pay for someone else's health care, while Canadians are appalled at such thinking. But in no way does that mean that Canada (or anywhere else) is a Utopia. It is the mentality that is different, and this is of such importance to me that sometimes I think that I was born on the wrong side of the 49th parallel. Whenever I have visited Canada, I have always felt that I was more "in sync" with Canadians than with people in my own country. But I am too old now to do anything about that...
Another thing this video reminded me of was that when I lived in Canada, they taught us that the US invaded Canada I the War of 1812 caused the war, and that the Canadians defended their land and won. When I moved to the US, they taught us that the British caused the war by seizing US ships and crews and undermining US independence, and that the US won because they asserted their independence from the British. There is some truth to both sides of course, but each side twists the story to make them seem righteous and victorious.
In most US school systems, it's taught as a draw. It was militarily inconclusive, with the Americans, British, and Canadians all getting things that they wanted in the end. We're taught that the real losers were the Native Americans. One could get the impression that in Canada, only the Canadian theater of the war is taught and nothing else.
Left-wingers in Canada: Canada is better than the USA!
Left-wingers in the USA: Canada is better than the USA!
They're not wrong lmao
Based Leftism
Oof
Like Bernie Sanders always says: "10 miles away from here, there is a country called Canada"
canada is better than the uk
I mean "Not America" is basically Canada's unofficial name globally.
reminds me of “Spain and Not Spain”
That's just everyone's name for us. We actually are just happier to tend to our own garden.
I'm keenly aware that most people in the world have no idea what or who Canada is.
That all most of humanity knows of Canada is "hockey, nature, maple syrup" = Canada's PR team has been doing its job very well. You've been had! Hook, line, and sinker.
North USA
@wargent99 What part of Europe did you go too? The Netherlands?
@wargent99 Right. France and Germany are one place. They have only been killing each other since before the days of Julius Caesar.
Americans: You're so nice!
Canadians: I hate you
Nah, more like.
Americans: You're so nice>
Canadians: I like you too
(After America leaves): OMG!!!! Look at how America is so right wing and racist lololololol.
@@johnpijano4786 sorry but the left wing mentions race every 2 second unlike the right wing. It's the lefties that are racist
@@arpitabrahmachari7649 we don’t need to get political here
@@redacted1827 Not to get to political but like,
WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE WESTFOLD FELL????
@@arpitabrahmachari7649 thank you
As an American, this video is like finding out that someone in your friend group hates you and you never knew.
Honestly it isn’t really hatred. Ask left-wing Canadians (Around two-thirds of the population based on the popular vote total of the Liberals, NDP, and Greens) about the US and their dislike is directed almost exclusively towards Republican states, ask right-wing Canadians (Around one-third of Canadians based of the vote total of the Conservatives and BQ) and their dislike is directed almost exclusively towards Democratic states (Although the BQ tend to hate everything Anglophone so they are a bit of an anomaly).
@@eddymaldonado7991 Already knew that and honestly I don’t care considering that it isn’t a widely accepted cultural practice.
@@eddymaldonado7991 300 thousand over seventeen years out of a population of 327 million is statistically insignificant.
Lmao
@@eddymaldonado7991 What was he referencing? Cultural genocide it sounds like, but I can't tell.
seeing all the “Americans don’t think about Canadians as much as Canadians think about Americans” comments made me realize that yeah, this is my first time in a while thinking about Canadians.
I just want to mention that it’s our social media and journalist and stuff who focus on Americans. Like by asking questions that keep Americans relevant in the minds of Canadians, but if you were to spend a couple days in Canada and drank with some fellow Canadians you would not hear a single conversation about America or Americans, we regular people genuinely do not think about other countries either.
@@BarryB.Benson Yea id say like 50/50. It's not that Canadians want to talk about America. Is just inadvertently since many things popular in Canada are tied to the US. Think about any major tv shows, movies, music, sports, pop culture etc. If you're a Canadian and any of those topics comes up you're more than likely gonna be talking about something US related. I've been to Canada 5 times so i have some personal experience not just a random opinion lol. Have family in Brampton area and Also family in west coast in Vancouver area.
@@brownjatt21 ya no, I completely agree with you on that, but what I meant was when don’t just sit around talking shit about Americans, or have hour long conversations about what Americans are doing, but you’re absolutely right that if we’re talking about sports or movies, they most likely are American made or involve American people
You know we Canadians dont care that Americans dont think of Canada right? That's actually a good thing for Canada. It means we're not catching horrible headlines that make Canada look bad.
Mean while. The U.S. looks like a joke every day.
American ignorance of Canada is not the own you think it is.
@@randomassname445
We don’t tend to lose sleep over the opinions of those that are powerless to affect our lives.
Our lack of concern stems from the impotence of foreign nations when it comes to imposing their concerns upon us.
It’s a “We’re going to do what we please and you can cry as you will” vibe.
As it stands, every single Canadian could be totally united in purpose like the Borg, determined to cause Americans grief, and all of them combined in effort and will wouldn’t so much as be able to seize Vermont or Maine from us without us decapitating your entire country.
It would feel like a speed bump for the states you tried it against and folks down in Texas or Arizona or the Carolinas wouldn’t even notice in their day to day if they weren’t watching the news.
You pose no threat, we spend more money on any given branch of our armed forces than the entire operating budget of your country, so you aren’t exactly an economic threat either..
..and our culture rules your country, you aren’t a cultural threat in the slightest.
There’s not much from you lot that demands our attention.
It’s a testament to the difference in our power and capability that we ignore you.
We’re freed from small concerns like that living in the US.
It’s nice.
Sorry you don’t have that luxury.
Now go sit down before the CIA takes offense at your smugness and engineers the breaking apart of your country for our convenience.
Canada devotes so much energy to resisting the US and the US doesn't even acknowledge they exist half the time
James BOND jeez I wonder why they hate Americans?🤔
Canada is like the woman who thinks the only reason you don't rape her is because of her constant vigilance.
@@undesirableloser9702 nigga you mad us fuck, bro face no one gives a flying fuck about canada except it's own citizens
We don't resist as much as this guy makes it out to be, he's being a little hysterical tbh
Replace the word "and" with "because" and you'll get a more accurate statement.
As an American, watching this video is the longest I've ever thought about Canada in one sitting... and it was fascinating.
Jonathan V-Leroux Point being this American doesn’t think about Canada very much before this video - if at all.
Americans don't have to think about Canada. America is better in every conceivable way!
@@That_AMC_Guy Lol definitely. Looks like the propaganda is working.
@@juice5951 Has nothing to do with propaganda. Canada is failing.
@@That_AMC_Guy Canada is a way better country than the us. I've visited both and was only met with racism in america. Where as Canadian people are heartwarming and extremely friendly. The us government treats its people like drones only built to work and if you don't mean a certain standard let's say you are born with a certain disability you are left to die as you can't even depend on your own government to help. Trump himself is a complete idiot not even knowing how to act half of the time making his country look like a joke. Sure the US has a lot of good things going for it but Canada has good public healthcare which America doesn't. Public healthcare allows everyone to get help and live a healthy lifestyle where everyone is treated equally and that is something that Canada has a right to be proud of. America is a cool place but when I hear Americans saying that their country is the best it literally makes me cringe because there is no such thing as the best country in the world. America has a high income gap lots of Rascism huge levels of gun violence that are not seen in other countries in the first world a huge problem with obesity and problems with its police force as seen many times with them being racist particularly towards black people. So you have no right to say that Canada is a failing country when it is America that has wayyy more problems.
Something interesting I realized is that Britain has a similar sentiment. They aren't as left wing, but they do look down on the US. Although I don't think they are as serious because they know the UK is also pretty messed up lol. Canada is a bit more serious about this kind of sentiment though for sure.
Because unlike UK Canada actually live close to the us and feel America is so wrong and a stain to them which is stupid....Canada should learn to understand America history and understand why USA is as it is.....
@@Darkmaga23 and the fact that Canada's view in the world is largely down to how it does economically, which is heavily dependent on the United States, which they did intentionally due to the fact that after WW2, the US had wages that were like twice that of the second closest country.
No. The UK just believes the USA is condescending considering their circumstances. The UK is not some oppressive dystopian because it has a ceremonial monarch. You are basically the same country, only difference being one is posh and cold and the other is wild with amazing weather.
EDIT: I want to add more lol
basically the USA seems to think they broke free of the horrors of Britain, but it was a parliament which declared war and a parliament which ended it, and had been in power since 1689 before Great Britain even existed. I am half American half English, I love both but have noticed the USA appears condescending sometimes, as if their special relationship with the UK is charity work and they can ditch the UK whenever they want. It’s not Britain thinking it’s better, it’s britain thinking that America thinks it’s better. And I promise you the British media is fucking horrific, and has unfortunately plagued the population into believing the world hates them and they can only rely on themselves. It’s not arrogance, but instead being told that other countries believe you are nothing and you can only rely on yourselves. Brexit shows how much impact the media such as the Daily Mail and the Sun has corrupted the population.
The most ironic part is that people equate their reluctance to love America as arrogance, as if they’re too salty to accept the American revolution. I’d like to remind everyone that during British & American occupation of the San Juan islands in 1859, the British celebrated the 4th of July with the US, and the US celebrated Queen Victorias birthday with the UK. That was in fucking 1859. No one in 2022 is bitter besides Americans who are passionate Anglophiles.
I promise as someone who sees both sides I can clearly tell the “hostility”. I want to add I truly think the USA and UK are the two most cooperative powers in world history, they are the biggest consumers of eachothers media, news, entertainment, population, and the governments are unbelievably intertwined (militarily and intelligence agencies), to the point where MI6 were entrusted to spy on the USA population and the CIA on the British population to circumvent domestic surveillance laws… and were ironically caught by Der Spiegel, which is German lol. The British media basically insinuates that the USA cares little for Britain yet Britain fights alongside them everywhere. The right wing US media then reaffirms this , with politicians like Trump saying NATO, which was started by Britain, is uneven and a waste of time.
But it’s so painfully flawed. Look at any video regarding the sights of the USA & the sights of Britain and you’ll see 10,000+ comments about how much they love eachothers country’s. 9/11 was the biggest terror attack in English history, with around 60 Englishmen dying, and the queen ordered the USA’s anthem to be played by the royal band, which has never been done before in the history of Britain & England besides a state visit. The USA gave $31b to Britain in Lend Lease, which was over $20b more than the USSR who were literally mid invasion against the Nazis and initially losing. The amount of bond these two countries have is staggering, and it’s crazy to think they are even closer today than they were when they were still considered the exact same country.
Canada is a joke, 60% of our elders live in poverty, canada has some of the worst retirement plans in the g7. BUT HEY YOU STILL GOT FREE HEALTHCARE(2 year wait time) WHILE YOU STARVE
I feel like it's something I see among Europeans in general, not just among the British. I see it on the Internet all the time. I'm not even American, Canadian or European. So so stupid to hate a country, a government and it's people *that* much.
For perspective, various polls put americans’ views of Canada as somewhere between 80 - 90% favorable, some even higher.
I'm Canadian and can't stand the butthurt little brother cultural complex lots of Canadians have.
@@TheWhale45 Most Americans actually can, its one of the few countries that the US can place on the map
@@scoobsno9756 the fact that they can't read a map is concerning
Canada isn't even real
@@nicomartinez9951 Pretty sure the idea here isn't that we can't read maps, it's that we can't immediately pinpoint any given country on one. I don't think anyone really thinks that if you gave someone from any country who could read a labelled map and unlimited time that they couldn't find any given country. And the "tests" usually involve unlabelled maps or time limits. And honestly, I don't think it's fair to expect anyone to be able to look at an unlabelled map and pick out any random country no matter how far away it is from them, but some people in the world really do hold us to that standard.
I think it's funny you mention Canadian pride in their healthcare. Any canadian in an online forum can't go 5 seconds w/o comparing it to the US.
It really just goes to show how insular their thinking is. Canada's healthcare system is perfectly normal for a western democracy, while the USA is a massive outlier. If Canadians think their healthcare system is uniquely special, they must have very narrow horizons which don't go at all beyond the North American continent.
Most of the complaints though are worries that American HMOs and trade policies will work to dismantle it and turn it into an American-style system.
@@alexpotts6520 This may be true, but I can't think of any western democracy that doesn't have pride in its healthcare system. Even in the US, there's pride in the healthcare system, more for its abilities and outcome success, just not it its prices or disparities.
@@ElGrandoCaymano Oh yeah you can and should be proud of an institution that saves lives. Perhaps my criticism is more one of American cultural dominance that means most other western nations first and foremost fuel national pride by comparing their own healthcare systems to a notably bad one, rather than seeking to look at the world leaders to try and work out how they could make their own healthcare systems even better and save even more lives.
Cool
As an American, I had no idea Canada hated us that much. lmao
No no no. Relations are good since long time . Some hysterical people dramatize things .
"Me love you, long time." :P
Canadians don't hate Americans. We like you the way a mouse likes an elephant.
Hate is a very strong word, I don’t necessarily think most of the general public hates America, there is definitely some people that do hate America. But who am I to speak for others. I am but one out of a million
It's obvious Trump doesn't know. He would of invaded by now.
As an American, the only people I have ever heard saying that America wants to control Canada, are Canadians.
Ironically America does control Canada, Canada couldn’t exist without the US, it relies entirely on it
As a Canadian, those Canadians are the minority
you must live under a rock
Uh, since free trade the US essentially controls canada. Certainly in any way that matters.
@@mikearchibald744 yeah all we need to do is invade with an army of trucks, no military required
Canada in 2020: america too racist!
Canada in 1920: america not racist enough!!
This seems like a big improvement honestly
Canada is 2120: America is just the right amount of racist!
@p man yeah I feel like the world doesn’t know that
Great evolution. Meanwhile, in America....
what racism? no americans in canada are being shot or even being harassed, unlike black people, mexicans, asians in the US. bunch of fake news.
Is it wrong that I simultaneously want your channel to become really popular and yet remain a hidden gem?
Relative
@Haruto T. it's pretty small
@Haruto T. He definitely used to be a hidden gem, I've been subscribed since he had 20k
Yes. You must repent.
TH-cams algorithms can solve that quickly because he does not have a fully left wing view.
I remember when I was living in Austria, how we went to this one girl’s apartment who was Canadian and as soon as I and another American stepped inside, she felt it necessary to tell us that she was not one of those Canadians that hated Americans. It was kind of a weird experience and really a shock to me. I’m from North Dakota and get mistaken as Canadian here in other parts of the US and in Canada because of my accent and I never experienced hatred from Canadians or really knew that there are Canadians with a deep hatred of the US and Americans.
Aside from politicians perhaps, I've never been aware there's any 'deep hatred' at all. The creator may have implied that, but I think it's more of a a Canadian smug feeling of superiority over (aspects of) Americans/American society. Same say with French having the (unjustified/outdated) smug feeling of world superiority about their wines or culinary cuisine. In Europe, there was in the 70s-90s the feeling that Americans demonstrated the same smug superiority feelings, perhaps like the British a century ago and the French a century before that.
@@viviancooper5892 as a black american ive had long winded political conversations with racists and canadian nationalists. Its really hard to explain why I like talking to Nazis so much in comparison to canadians, and the only real way to explain is for one to have experienced it in my shoes.
@@ElGrandoCaymano ha, a smug non-American superiority does exist, believe me; but my experience with it mainly comes from northern Europeans.
I'm not sure how much Americans realize how other people follow our news outlets, but they see all the problems come out, and are quick to claim, "oh, my God, I'm a European and am disgusted" (and nothing else)
I know that it might seem they're genuinely shocked, but after seeing one after the other comment with nothing but how their European and these problems don't happen there, it becomes clear that they go specifically to American news sites to passive-aggressivly brag about how their country is better than the us.
And if you want further proof, once I called them out on it and they (different people) responded by saying things like, "shut up and play with your guns"
Canadians don't say this lies
@@viviancooper5892 so the young folks hate america that are canadians but i bet their parents wernt canadian because just a generation ago all canadians enved americans
I used to live in Canada, and I remember when we were in school they showed a video highlighting how Canada is unique from the US. It was many years ago, but I remember some things such as the video saying "We have a Parliament, not a White house... we have a better view of Niagra" (which I know is bot really a strong statement in any way, but it's all I remember exactly) and the whole video was angled in a way to make Canada feel unique to and better than the US.
I live in the US now, but don't get me wrong, I have fond memories in Canada and love it, but there is that light anti-American sentiment.
I think there is definatly an inferiority complex going on there with certain Canadians that bleeds over onto some parts of public life. You are literally right next to the world's bighest superpower, its a large part of the reason why you are wealthy, and you are under its large shadow. The worst part of it is, America does not even think about Canada...making the inferiority feel even worse.
Like hating your mother as you suck on her tit. Kind of pathetic really. I live in Canada too. Canadians are dumb. We are about to become communist too. But that isn't interesting to JJ so we probably won't see any videos on it.
Get out! We Americans don’t want you here! Go back to Canada! Cuckadian go home!
haters gonna hate it just validates
So Canada is the guy in the elevator that says:
"I feel bad for you"
And America is the guy that says:
"I don't think about you at all"
I’ve noticed that they know all about us but we barely know about them.
Probably closer to say “ha ha ha, I got mine and I think about you all the time to justify my moral superiority”
@@Team_ghost9503Canada is that tall, quiet, wallflower guy in the corner that everyone likes but nobody really thinks about. America is the Chad that blasts into the party with a keg on his shoulder. People find him annoying but he makes the party better and nobody has the guts to stand up to him.
I'm an Australian. America is the super-rich guy who can't even manage his own personal health, so the other rich people who do manage their health stay away and laugh at him. Canada is the rich guy who says "don't laugh I have to live next to that moron"
SOCIALISED HEALTHCARE RULES!!!
A lot of the "we're better than the US" ideology has often lead people I know to down play Canadian bigotry, racism and historical awfulness because we're "not as bad as Americans" 🙄
@@eddymaldonado7991 Bro how do you not recognize that you just did what she said Canadians do.
@@eddymaldonado7991 Aren't you the fuckers who literally took First Nation children from there parents and forcibly re-educate them in little "schools" (aka a fucking camp)? Have some fucking shame will you? Grand standing with a marred history like that.
@@eddymaldonado7991 Cope harder
@@eddymaldonado7991 nice whataboutism racist
@@eddymaldonado7991 Balkans:
I had no idea Canadas identity was so largely influence by just not being American. Thats like Scottlands identity
It’s not.
yeah seems like it
I mean yeah, that's accurate. And the USA's identity was at first largely influenced by not being British
that's not true at all
I think you mean Ireland, not Scotland
Insecurity: it's easy to spot for everyone except those who are insecure. I've spent a lot of time in Canada over the years and I love Canadians... but this kind of reflexive anti-Americanism rooted in Canadian insecurity is indeed common. As a great public example of this, check out the spoken word performance during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony. It's basically a Canadian artist Shane Koyczan yelling "we're NOT AMERICA, we're BETTER THAN AMERICA" in the most sophomoric and pathetic way possible. The CBC of course called this childishness "spine tingling". Lol.
completely agree with you....HOWEVER, we did beat them that year in the Olympics. I mean definitely it's rude and unneeded, but the fact that in 2010 we hosted it, told the Americans we would win in the most snarky way, and then won. I don't know about you, but that's kind of hilarious.
@@blakecampanella2502 host countries usually win the most medals.
@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish That is not true at all at least for the past 20ish years the winter olympics top 5 are always Norway, Germany, Canada, USA, and Russia in some order and the Summer games are always US, China, Russia, UK, Germany in some order.
In the past 20 years Canada in 2010 and Russia in 2014 are the only countries to top the medal table during their host years.
Countries tend to overperform when they host but unless the host country is already really strong in the games they won't be first.
@@blakecampanella2502 I wonder how Canada would take it if we Americans said the same thing about Canadians....
You know what I find most amusing about this? Tell me, Canada, why do you think the USA would want you as part of the USA in the first place?
85% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border with the U.S.
That mostly has to do with environment and climate
yeah because it's fning cold up here
Without us they would have nothing including jobs 😂
@@tobithetabby6376 Yeah, a lot of it is little rough. I live a few hours from the border, but it's still sparse here. We got a Matrix sequel before 911 and high speed internet lol.
B too cold otherwise. Plus the transcanda highway and railroad are in that corridor
Since the day I moved here, I have noticed that Canadians will literally bend over backwards to do the exact opposite of America where possible. Even if it doesn't make any logical sense.
AL PD well tbh Americans started out by defining ourselves as "Not part of the British Empire" and we collectively made a lot of conscious decisions to reflect that as a culture. Coffee instead of tea, driving on the right hand side of the road, inventing our own sports, etc. So it makes sense that Canada, which started out by defining itself as "Not the United States", would have taken a similar cultural path.
@@definitelynotobama6851
"Coffee instead of tea"
What are you talking about, nobody made a conscious decision on this, the only reason coffee became anywhere near as successful in the US (which was over a century after the breakaway) was because the US had more direct control and contact with tropical zones where coffee is commonly grown.
"driving on the right hand side of the road"
This wasn't conscious either, that just happened out of coincidence, most nations drive on the right side, even Canada does so. The UK, Japan, and a collection of former British colonies are the only nations that drive on the left side, and the US didn't do it because of the UK, it just happened. (which I'm pretty certain was the result of German, French, and Spanish immigrants which make up more then the British populations ever could)
"inventing our own sports"
Actually this is incredibly ignorant of the history of baseball/cricket, soccer, and football/rugby, none of these sports were invented in the US (alone at least) and they did actually start in the UK and France. Foremost soccer and football used to be the same category of sport and were prominent in both the UK and the US, up into the 1880s or so. After a bit of time a US football (as both soccer and football were called football) organization started developing their own form of football, and between the British and American organizations they worked together to develop soccer. The British rugby organizations that started to crop up ended up not cooperating as much with the American organizations and that's where the split generally ended up happening. As a result football in the US developed independently and was constantly being modified to become more action oriented until you get modern American football. The root of football and soccer were from the same place however and they were developed and invented by both sides of the pond, we did not invent football, we merely modified it slightly. (and its not like we consciously changed it to be different) Cricket has a much similar story, though the divergence is a bit earlier then football.
"So it makes sense that Canada, which started out by defining itself as "Not the United States", would have taken a similar cultural path."
Not according to what you've said, everything you mentioned happened decades if not a century after Canadian nationalism had already been defined, hell this stuff only existed after the Springtime of Nations where nationalism was revolutionized in Europe, which was well after Canadian nationalism.
MegaCake1234 thanks for the novel. Nobody cares.
@@definitelynotobama6851 Those who don't like liars do.
@@definitelynotobama6851 LOL, "inventing" seems like a stretch,IMHO, USA sports are simply modified sports taken from UK (Baseball from UK Crkt/roounders; Football from UK Rugby) what do you think?
It is always said ask a Canadian what they think of the US they will tell you what they think and how! Ask an American what they think about Canada, they will say, I don’t think about Canada.
Probably because Canadian media blasts American news 24/7.
And this highlights the difference between a superiority complex, and a inferiority complex. As JJ mentions, what many of these Canadians who indulge in this type of nationalism are doing is just exposing their own insecurity about Canada vis-a-vis the US. So in the end all they're really doing is insulting both nations simultaneously.
@@redrave404 Personally, I think the level of emphasis we put on "being better than the US" is self-destructive. I don't care that we rank higher than the US in terms of healthcare, I care that we ranked behind Britain, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, etc. We shouldn't be content with our system being second worst.
@@redrave404 Yea I've never understood the inferiority complex thing. Sure, the US economically and militarily is much more superior to Canda, but culturally, we're pretty much the same.
Because Americans don't have to think about Canada at all ,we have all the good stuff
As an American who works with a bunch of Canadians this is super accurate. Very condescending way about the Canadians towards America.
Left-wing nationalism is extremely common in Latin America
And in Nazi Germany, Communist Soviet Union
Same here in Southeast Asia. Mainly the non-muslim countries though (but even then, with exceptions such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines, who fought for an independent "Bangsamoro" while also pushing for more leftist policies)
Well here in the Philippines, everyone declares themselves as nationalist, but especially the left, as the aim of the left is emancipation from foreign influence/rule and the indigenisation of culture and education, without going back to the pre-colonial social structures
It makes a lot of sense though. When oppression of the working classes come from foreign companies, nationalism serves as a way to fight both foreign intervention and oppression of the lower classes
While in countries such as Switzerland, the assumption of nationalism is that it serves to degrade the lower classes that generally happen to be of foreign origin. The lower classes already work for Swiss companies, so there isn't a need to fight foreign influence
Can't really tell much about Canada so my comment isn't that related with the video as it takes a more "third worldist" view
Left wing leads to the death of Nationalism.
@joseaca Fascism is right wing. North Korea is a communist slave Nation. Leftism leads to communism.
@@edstar83 ....did you not watch the video lol? Nationalism is not tied to the left or right rather just a appreciation of what makes your nation special. The fact that the fucking nazis of all people started out as "national socialists" aka left wing should allude to this. To say that Leftism leads to "communism" is just ignorant at best and down right wrong. Left wing doesnt lead to anything neither does right wing, it depends on what the nation at that moment deems important that dictates where it goes politically.
He bobs around like he is giving his presentation from a little boat.
A boat? Or maybe “a boot” floating along. 😉
Is he sitting on a yoga ball?
This made me lol
Became such an annoyance I stopped watching after about 5 minutes.
Don't you know? Most of Canada is water, so we all travel in boats. We get so comfy in our canoes that we just flood our houses so we can canoe to our kitchens to get our bottle of maple syrup. Clearly he's recording in his canoe.
“Canada criticized America for letting too many immigrants in.”
Oh, how the turntables.
America still lets in waaaaay more than Canada though...
@@grahamdavis8777 so?
@@donovanlocust1106 so its not really "tunrtables" at all..
@liam Anderson Yes, for quite a while if not forever.
@@grahamdavis8777 canada is a wasteland of snow and ice in most areas though, it's not unreasonable that they let in fewer immigrants given that they have just (EDIT) a ninth* the U.S. population and more than 80% live in the cities
I had no clue we were living rent-free in Canada's head like that lol
@@eddymaldonado7991 rent free
@@eddymaldonado7991 You literally just proved his point. It sucks that you’re too stupid to realize it 😂
@@eddymaldonado7991 rent free
yank
@@bt22445 world police - rent free 👮♀️
I actually noticed that when I visited Canada. Canadians don’t really like being associated with America.
Imagine telling a Canadian they can technically be called Americans for living on the continent of America
@@smithsmithony5401 Mexicans too, lol.
Still We enjoy the Scandinavians, the Europeans and couple others but the closest lifestyle is USA. Honestly no matter what I would say, United States will be my 2nd option as a place to live.
Shit talking America is our 4th favourite thing to do after Drinking, playing hockey and being better than Americans.
I mean who would want to be associated with the USA lol
Interesting. As an American who lives nowhere near Canada I have always had a vaguely positive feeling about Canada while being largely indifferent.
So, American here -- I was once staying in a hostel in Europe and got talking to a Swedish woman and we got talking about anti-Americanism in Europe. She said and then ranted for about twenty minutes that she found Canadians more annoying because they went out of their way to point out they aren't American when she didn't care as long as you weren't a jerk. Anyways, this video reminded me of that. XD
Yes! I find Canadians in Europe to be extremely obnoxious for this reason. Although I’m always amused by how little Europeans care about Canada, much to the frustration of Canadians who constantly want to explain boring Canadian things to them.
Probably American pretending to be Canadian. My parents are well travelled. This is common.
Mary Cordner our culture is pretty based around proving that we aren’t Americans.
If i caught American's pretending to be canada id beat the shit out of them....im not canadain. We dont like pussys.
@@dhardy6654 the people I know who travel do not put where they're from on display. They haven't spent thousands of dollars to drag Canada along with them - rather to leave it behind....experience something else. This is what canadians usually do. It's also what Americans do. Just takes a few idiots to crap all over it and ruin it for everyone.
it's funny cuz the same thing is happening in Australia as well. we aren't inherently connected to America like Canada is, but I think since the domination of American media and especially because of how americentric social media is, lately there's been a huge push of pointing out every unique trait we have compared to other western countries. I've heard people saying slang terms that haven't been used in the past 20 years, and I think within the younger generations accents have gotten stronger and people feel the need to dislike America and make a thousand school shooting jokes a day. I've also noticed this in the UK, young people there constantly talk about how 'annoying' Americans are and how amazing British humour is compared to American humour.
also this has definitely increased from the advent of social media. literally if you go onto twitter these days, the most popular tweets will be about American news, shops and fast food places, schools etc. and so now people feel the need to compare how good their institutions are to how bad American ones are apparently
Very interesting. I'm a white Zimbabwean living in the states and I find myself consciously trying to hold on to my accent because I get so many compliments and admiration from everyone in the US.
The fact that young people outside the states are becoming a little bit more "anti American" is possibly an American culture trend of being anti-American, a result of the baggage of slavery, colonization and destruction of native American lives and broadening wealth disparity that young people feel more strongly about.
However, I do see young Americans be more open to Americans talking shit about America - when non Americans talk ill of the US, they are met with combative disagreement sometimes. Kind of how only Brits complain about British weather and don't expect foreigners to agree.
I do find people back home to seem opposed to the US but it is more of a jealous insecurity
@@lukerees281 The US appears worse because it is more open about its problems. I was interested in the native american thing when I was younger and apparently 90% of them died through illness before the USA was even created. But they still talk about it way more than us Belgians talk about the Congo, for example. I think it is an admirable quality to "air out your laundry" and I wish we could do that more.
American owned social media companies being "americentric"....shocking.
@dfdf-rj8jr and for some reason, people don't talk about Canada and their "first nations" people history, like they do with the USA.
America: shrug.
We’re not anti-Canadian, that would be pathetic.
Good point.
Apparently, you were not paying attention to the US President saying how unfair we were, how badly we took advantage of the USA in trade, and how we are a national security threat because of... aluminum? I gotta say, being shit-talked about how badly we ran the table on Americans in trade kind of made me feel a little badass.
@@helbent4 never heard of that honestly
@@melvinklark4088 The rationale for renegotiating NAFTA was that we had somehow taken advantage of the US. "Canada has been very difficult to deal with. They have been taking advantage of the United States for a long time." And similar remarks about how we bamboozled the US in trade. MacLean's documented these and other comments. www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/donald-trump-canada-trudeau-insults/
As for tariffs and Canada being a national security threat, a few months ago US re-imposed protectionist tariffs on Canadian aluminum, and used the pretext of them being a threat to "national security". (Note, these protectionist tariffs were previously levied for not only aluminum but steel, for the same pretext). Of course Canada being a national security threat (if indirectly) was simply an excuse and not believable. Nevertheless, I'm sure a few people bought it because America. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/aluminum-tariffs-trade-trump-trudeau-1.5724391
@@iminyourwalls8309 Of course it goes without saying that appeal to a national security interest was just a pretext to invoke tariffs. But if there was a point to those tariffs, I missed it, as did pretty much every analyst I read. (Mainly it seemed to be a combination of getting tough for the sake of the election, and lobbying by the American aluminum makers who both did feel threatened and one in particular that had billions in Russian aluminum to unload. But if you have some further insight, please feel free to share.)
It goes without saying the pretext is more believable if the facts support it, and they did not. Counter-tariffs were therefore much more likely to be allowed. And we made our own point clear: if you start a trade war we know how to make it hurt in ways that will cost you domestic support in your election.
But the point I was trying to make is that stereotypically, Americans might think being anti-Canadian is pathetic. It's true, they think this, and we prefer it that way so we continue to be underestimated by them. The US President was anti-Canadian (rhetorically) when it suited him, but found out just how bad a hand he had when he tried to follow through. And this president has fostered a cult of personality, some of his supporters might actually believe this.
I lived in Canada for a few years and boy let me tell you. There's nothing Canadians love more than talking about American politics they know nothing about.
To be fair this is also a favorite pastime of Americans.
@@jakej2680 But it's just weird that you, who lives in completely different country, would actually give a shit about a completely different country's politics as if it affects you in any way or form. Some people need to stop being fucking nosy
@@broidontlikeu9970 it probably affects them more than their own government does haha
Im so glad you left canada you shouldnt have even been allowed in the country yank
@@bt22445 pathetic child
Canadians Today: "It's so nice to see so many foreigners that love Canada, and it's great to see our American neighbors finally embrace other cultures properly like us."
Canadians Then: "I dunno man. America's got too many Jews running around in their streets."
Destin! You’re racist not, general Canadians. Why would you introduce Judaism and not Aboriginal racism as well to the previous culture of Canada??
@@dudebros6122 Really? Also makes them right about putting Ukrainians into internment camps back then as well
I'm confused as to what is happening here
@@dudebros6122 wooowoooowooo back it up there
@@dudebros6122 ok nazi.
As an American I found this video to be very interesting. In the south, we don't really have many negative opinions of Canadians given our distance from you. It's amusing to find out that so many Canadians have disdain for us and envelop so much of their identity to being the antithesis of the USA. Their focus would likely serve them much better if it was concentrated on improving their own country instead of engaging in a one sided competition that the majority of Americans aren't even aware of. Good video.
@@eddymaldonado7991 lol who are you? An angry Canadian?
@@eddymaldonado7991 Oh, you found out that every country has negative aspects to it? I thought every country was a utopia. Thanks for your genius insight.
@@eddymaldonado7991 you are literally the one that came at me salty. intelligence isn't your strong point.
@@eddymaldonado7991 You literally have no argument. You started insulting my country in a strange way and you're claiming you made a point....
@@eddymaldonado7991 Right
As an American, I learned more about Canada in these 20 minutes than I’ve known about it in all my life combined.
You didn't learn much, this guy is a moron.
@@001spring that is a little harsh, and for the Average American, they know nothing about this. But hey, JJ doesn't need me defending him
well, i've learned from the comment section that they're about as smug as the british. Also as jealous of the US as they are. They're also virtue signalers. Pretty hefty damage to my image of them, honestly. And i'm not even american.
@@marklittle8805 As an American, maybe you shouldn't rely on some schmuck on TH-cam to learn about another country.
@@001spring I am a Canadian and I don't need JJ McCullough to explain history to me. I took history. As for JJ, he hasn't said anything unfactusl
"An aggressive gratitude" - yep, that''s Canada.
@PasoFreak *"sorry" intensifies*
Keep in mind that Canadians being uber polite is another anti American left wing thing, historically they have been notoriously gruff and vulgar
@@Epicrandomness1111 the word your looking for: Hippocrates..😉 your welcome. Oh buy the way I'm Canadian and I like the USA. It's great country and even greater people 😊
@@AJ-cb6vg I fail to see what Greek physicians have to do with Canada/USA relations.
I'm an American who spent 4 years as an undergraduate in a Canadian university. I find this analysis absolutely accurate and applaud JJ McCullough for his insight.
Made many friends during that time but I was shocked at the amount of anti-American prejudice. They chose the worst examples of Americans and took that to be the norm. For example, Americans were supposed to be dumb-- I think there are smart and dumb people in every country. It's called being human.
Most Canadians I met accepted Republican propaganda that Republican = American. And they took for granted that they shared a 3,000 mile unprotected border with the US from which they had no fear of any military threat. I can go on.
On the other hand then and now I've held on to a great admiration for Canada for its achievements as a free society. The effect of my stay led me to notice and challenge my own parochialisms. For example, as a New Yorker I had always resented California as a rival. I realized this was the same kine of reaction that I had encountered in Canada against the US. I went to California and decided to live there, I consider myself both a New Yorker and a Californian. And part Canadian.
Dude You're living my dream...I'm from NJ but live across the Hudson from Manhattan and have always wanted to live in Cali AND Canada
Very insightful. I've only been to Canada once, but being from the Midwest, I've met many Canadians who share the same attitude toward the US you describe. I think it's kind of sad really, because I see our nations as brothers. Each are flawed, but both are brilliant in their own way.
Most left-wing Americans (of which I consider myself to be) don't look at Canada's flaws at all. They only see the universal healthcare, relaxed marijuana laws, and less-war focused nationalism, but they don't see the crippling oppression of Indigenous people, political corruption at the Provincial level, the exploitation of the banking industry on disenfranchised nations, the high child homelessness rate, or the casual bigotry and racism that pervades their culture as much as ours. These flaws don't make me hate Canada, but they do reinforce the fact that our countries are no where near as different as Canadians like to think we are.
People always assume I would prefer to live in Canada because I'm liberal. Absolutely not. I said that's like trading the home where our problems get addressed out in the open and we work to fix them and fight for a better society for the home where problems are often swept under the rug in the name of defining yourselves by who you aren't. No, thank you.
Same experience here man, but I won most of them over by out hating America. I have since left the continent and live in asia lol.
I don’t know. I deal with Canadians on a semi-regular basis. I know they are Canadian, and they know I’m an American. With more avid users of the internet, people just don’t care. As the two nations are interdependent politically, economically, and digitally, people are bound to connect across the border more often than across the ocean. Then it gets to a point where, it’s hard to hate Americans when 1/3 of your friends are Americans. Just like it’s hard to hate Canada when 5 of your best friends are Canadian. It’s easier to hate people without an expansive social circle, but once it’s established, it’s much more difficult. That’s just the way it is.
@@PV1230 I see. Have you been to either, or is this pronouncement only based on ignorance?
Japan likes the United Stated more than Canada does and that’s saying something.
Nuke me once, shame on you...
The Japanese actually have an identity to be proud of. They are not dependent on us for their sense of self. I can understand why Canada has this problem, I nearly feel sorry for them…
Um, Canada is much, much, MUCH younger than Japan. Canada has its own history and identity, much of which Canadians don't know about, and a lot of our culture is co-mingled with the US. But I get it, it's easier to just get your entire opinion about something you've never even thought about for a second off one TH-cam video.
@@jordank4889You proved his point, we do not care about our "deep identity"
That’s because Japan kisses up to USA
I am an American and I was on a flight home from Montreal Canada. We had a delay and I am rather chatty so I started talking to the Canadian passenger next to me. At some point she started talking about how much she hated America with vary blatant and wrong stereotypes. She was so passionate that she was almost yelling.. I finally understand where so much hatred was coming from. Thank you!
watching one damn movie about any country doesn't make you a know it all about that country
You should have knocked the bitch out!
@@cheaze69 That would only reinforce negative American stereotypes (that of us being a violent people). As for the OP, if she hated America so much, why was she flying here. LOL. I would never visit a country I hate. You won't see me in China any time soon. (note I don't hate the Chinese people before someone calls me a racist).
Lol stereotypes? You guys literally storm the capitol yesterday your country is a joke lol.
@@solomons5669 only an ignorant moron thinks storming a capitol is a joke. Get an education and learn history.
A friend of mine works in a Florida vacation resort and he says Canadians are the most annoying guests and the staff hates them, they're constantly going on about how much better Canada is than America and he always replies with "well why do you keep coming to America to vacation every year? I don't know anybody who goes on vacation to Canada" lol
I actually had no idea we bragged about canada thats kind of cringey
canada has beautiful lakes, rivers and forests to visit
Cause its cheap.
@@dustinmcrae349 Cheaper than going into another canadian place?
@liam Anderson are you still alive ? or did you get shot by a random person on the street
As a Canadian, I'm shocked by the prominence of your "about". I've never heard anyone actually it.
Well he does it on purpose, it's kinda a trademark of his channel. He's explained this in one of his old videos, I believe.
I say it "abutt" and it's not on purpose :/ I have to try hard to pronounce it the "ow" way
Michaela B I also really notice how he says “aroond”.
Yeah, it really sticks out. He's obviously faking it because sometimes he'll slip up and say it in the more conventional way. I honestly don't think there's a distinctly Canadian accent because Canada spans such a wide area, geographically speaking. An Albertan is going to speak differently than an Ontarian, who is going to speak differently than a Newfoundlander, etc.
Stop getting triggered.
I love how respectful JJ is to people he obviously disagrees with and has a problem with
JJ is paid to lead the sheeple. what is that you say Canada just became communist. well someone must distract them on youube then. maybe in a few years you will wake up and see or maybe you won't.
@@cfcreative1 as you and millions of other people have said, if i’m brainwashed so are you buddy
@@jfrfilms6697 tell me more i am listening....
@@cfcreative1 clever, deleting your comment, now no-one will ever know that you said that JJ is paid to lead the sheeple and that Canada is Communist
@@jfrfilms6697 didn't delete my comment.
"I hate Americans"
*Proceeds to get into their Ford F-150 and drive away, listening to Keith Whitley*
and i bet your a immigrant to canada
@@mikemuschik2996 *Jamaican-Irish American
@@mikemuschik2996 It's 'you're' not 'your' the Canadian education system failed.
They always talking about them:)
@@somerandommen Education*
System*
nouns
As a Canadian, living in the US and having to endure Anti-Americanism, every time I go home...(including people spitting on my car and telling me I am not a real Canadian)....you have satisfied my curiosity about the roots of this powerful force of hatred leveled at me, my children, my friends and neighbors (just for living in the US).... you have given me a deeper understanding of how the divisions feed off each other and hope for the future which frankly will come from people like you. It is really like other kinds of polarizations that exist in the world and the challenges all humanity is facing. This video was a beautiful gift to me as I work on compassion for all people. Thank you. You are brave.
What da fuck, I won’t think that’d be a problem in Canada!
@Canuk Kun that’s a shit take, location doesn’t dictate character the individual does. I was surprised to find such an attitude in Canada but your comment is confirmation.
Civic nationalism is the only true nationalism. It could also be called Resistance Nationalism. It's "wingless" because it opposes oppressors from all sides, whether from the left, right, or anywhere else. Of course, anyone who supports gun control can't realistically claim to be any sort of freedom fighter, so a Resistance nationalist should advocate civilian ownership (and mastery) of modern weaponry. It's a philosophy and mentality similar to the Czech Resistance during World War II.
*Note:* "Levied" would be a better word than "leveled."
Gotta divert all of that cultural xenophobia into something. The US has central Americans, the Canadians have the Americans, and the quebecoise have everyone.
@@judsongaiden9878 Based on what? Dude you're just pulling a no true Scotsman and lumping everyone you dont like as not "true" nationalists.
Bruh I'm Canadian and I love our American neighbors otherwise we're lonely.
Hes referring to left wing Canadians
@@the99throgue25 oh ok
@@adankmeme651 we love our Canadian brothers uo north also, cheers from the US🇺🇸
@@SOULAANI_ Yes my friend, from the land of the free 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Stars and stripes forever
@@adankmeme651 I'm neutral on Canada but I am glad the U.S. and Canada aren't enemies
Canada: At least I’m not America.
America: I’m so proud of my little brother!
I've been saying this for so long. I hate this smug view Canadians have about ourselves. That we are somehow inherently better than the states when in all practicality we are almost mirrored societies. Any time I've ever been to the states the people have been just as friendly and welcoming as where I live in Canada. Like some imaginary line that runs through our continent somehow dramatically changes who we are as people
I went to college in Alaska, and we had lots of western Canadian students. I never heard them say anything bad about the US. On the other hand, they despised eastern Canada.
only Toronto and Quebec.
@@daledoebert Most of their ire seemed to be directed towards Quebec. They were referred to as, "F***ing Frenchies."
there are Canadians that like and dislike Americans same as Americans
Trevor Walsh I’ve never heard an American say anything bad about Canadians unless it was a joke
@@Professional_street_hustler Other than the South Park movie and Trump complaining about Trudeau, I can't remember hearing Americans complain about Canadians, either. Canada has a pretty good reputation in the USA.
I'm British by birth, nationalized Canadian as a kid, then American as an adult. This video sums up so much of the awkwardness!
Sounds like a trip
Your gonna have one hell of a story to tell your grandkids when you get older
Awesome pathway and great ending choice! 👏 Being canadian as a kid was the best before this country turned into an extreme hypocritical liberal shithole. Now I'm going to the US to make up for weird canadian times and to continue my life in the U.S the way I remembered canada before 9/11.
@@SOULAANI_
What flag is your profile picture?
@@Shaw4123 its the flag for esperanto
As an Australian, I thought the rivalry between Canada and the US was similar to Aus and NZ, like two brothers that pick on each other, but also has a deep love for one another and feels protective of them. But watching this, I can say I had no idea it was this bad.
It's very much the big brother that everyone knows and is famous and infamous around town, and then the little brother that wants some recognition so they just do everything the opposite of the big brother. The big brother calls occasionally and is glad to catch up, but after the phone call the little brother is bitching about how annoying it is to talk to their big brother.
@@marw9541 and what about the relation between britain and usa?
@@janeeire2439 Depends really who you ask, it's also a much more complicated relationship since they interact far less often
@@janeeire2439Idk about British people but most Americans really like the UK while also having a friendly rivalry with them. Like a younger brother who managed to become the bigger and more successful of the two so he likes to tease the older brother, but obviously still loves him and would always be there for him. I mean honestly it’s the same with Canada, I don’t know any Americans that think negatively of Canada. But according to this video they just sound like whiny snakes. Let’s stop trade and protection of them and see how quickly they start crying foul. The US has always saved them a seat at the big boy tables, (I mean that literally, look up the G7 story), and they make their whole personality being not American. Pathetic
It’s not lol at least not in the west. Maybe those losers in Toronto actually hate Americans but most people I know don’t hate Americans.
when your whole national identity is based on a inferiority complex towards a richer country.
@Naikomi The USA is a richer country he means
@Naikomi does your country have a gdp of $23 trillion?
@TiredCole if you don’t mind me asking, what country are your from?
@@jormison3044 Canada is ranked #1 for quality of life as of 2021. The USA ranked #20. A huge population & GDP won’t change that.
@@XXXTENTAClON227 do you actually believe that theories? Quality of life on paper? I see many people living good in the US. I also see many Canadians moving to the USA . They said Americans rank very low in happiness, but no one i know of was surveyed. Man don't believe these statistics. You have to live both places to know
NZ has a weird left-wing nationalism against Australia, otherwise known as an inferiority complex lol
So does Scotland lol
NZ is to Australia what Canada is to the US: a satellite
@@ilaibavati6941 on top of that NZ and Fiji were planned to join Australia
@@otterno.1128 At least Scotland has a different language and long history of independence from England. Canada and NZ can't say the same about the US and Australia respectively.
@@alfrredd well tbf America doesn’t have much “European history” it’s mostly Native American
I was on vacation in Cancun, Mexico, and I was sharing the hot tub with a bunch of Canadians. They were there the same days I was, so we were vacation buddies, I guess? Anyway, they did a lot of shit talking of America, like it was almost pathological. I agreed with some and brushed off others, but it was a little weird sometimes. They definitely all had the left wing Canadian nationalism you're describing
@wargent99 "Nobody ever talks about Canada"
You're joking right? we are 100% more respected than America is on the global scale.
Nolan Martin Hmmm idk a lot of people do respect the power of the US and I have literally never heard Canada come up in a conversation while I was in Europe.
samuria 86 - lol, remember Rob Ford? He was gold!
@ Maybe because we look like a genius compared to the US. Nobody respects America. Americans use to travel with Canadian Flags so people were nice to them in the middle east lol
Next time that happens if you want to go for the safe bet shut them up just ask them when was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley cup or if there from Vancouver just bring up the 2011 Stanley cup finals or if you want to go for the more risky subject start making fun of treudeu either for his black facing or gun control act or basically anything he does there’s like a 50% chance it will work and they will let you join in on the banter or you will find out they are anti American extremists in witch case don’t worry about them
The thing is, I lived in West-Germany, and there, USA was somehow seen as the place of everything cool like pop music, movies, Disney, fun, while Canada was seen as a place of wide space, lumberjacks, and vast land where you could do whatever you want because you saw anybody else...Thank you for this video for showing a new perspective.
Americans tend not think negatively about Canada. I hope the day will come when we can see each other as brothers rather than as rivals.
Americans infrequently think about Canada unless they live in the North. Down here, not so much.
I've always thought of Canada as our best friend. We speak the same language, have a lot of the same culture and history, yet still are able to maintain distinct identities. I don't think I'll ever understand why some of them hate us so much.
@Giulio Basilico (eye roll)
@MasterSanders Umm...I hate to be THAT person, but just a decade or so ago, Canadians were very much "bashed" and looked down upon by many Americans. No one is innocent here.
Tbh most americans on Canada is very neutral
This reminds me of a Reddit post I saw, it was something like “Non Americans of Reddit, what were you surprised by when visiting American”
And a bunch of people had no idea it wasn’t some crazy gun filed religious hell house
It isn’t???
@@Ironicuss definitely not
@@TheHolyTreeMan. r/wooosh
@@Ironicuss it's woooosh with 4o's
well gun filled and religious? absolutely. ironically enough the two being factors in why we're most certainly not a "hell house"
My friends are constantly shit-talking America and it’s frankly uncomfortable. We’re really not that different from Americans.
I hear you man. When I was in high school there were a lot of "Americans are so dumb" jokes getting tossed around, but that was just high school, right? Wrong, I'm 29 and people my age and older still act like high school teenagers constantly talking shit about Americans. It's pathetic, because a lot of these people are more concerned about anti-Americanism and other BS politics rather than on working towards a career and improving their lives.
Yeah, it’s always confused me that people can hate Canada or that some Canadians hate Americans, it’s just a waste of time. We should be the best of friends
@@jimthompson5844 generally at least from where Im from people see canadians as better than us
@@jaygarret992 those people are really the worst
@@Skateboard_ Look at the orange-haired idiot they put in power and tell me again how they're not dumb.
I've spent a lot of time hanging with Canadians; I've heard it all. One of the most common themes is the persistence of US war plans to attack or invade Canada, with the implication that it's only a matter of time (the US has contingency plans to attack or invade just about everybody). And, of course, the War of 1812, which US citizens hardly ever think about at all except as a historical footnote associated with our national anthem.
As a liberal who prefers a lot of modern Canadian government policies to US ones, I can sympathize with many aspects of anti-US Canadian nationalism, but I do think it can serve as a barrier to introspection. Many of the worst aspects of US politics arise from the legacy of slavery, and for Canada to have avoided that to the same degree is to a large extent a matter of luck (a climate less suited to the specific types of agriculture that made slavery extremely profitable) rather than some inherent moral superiority.
Ironic that the two things you mentioned are fear that the US would invade Canada, and a war where Canada invaded the US.
You are genuinely the personification of this comment section becoming a hate boner for Canada. You are honest to god reakky taking this video, which already poorly blurred the lines of how Canadians view American State Vs American People (Canadians love Americans btw).
Using an already poorly structured video as a footstool to your poor narrative does not make it piece together more, it just makes it layered with more bullshit.
No Canadian would ever think America would INVADE us, you might get stupid person from Alberta Who will say: "We just need the States to Invade us become a part of them", when in reality what they are suggesting is Annexation or Seceding, yet they are too uneducated to know what those mean.
Not to mention they never had the struggle to actually free slaves in the bloodiest war of their country.
Canadians act as if the literal sacrifices of soldiers in the Union wasn't enough to wipe away the debt.
Well just in case, we’re all polluting our water and natural resources so you all aren’t tempted to annex in the future, hahaha….
If there was some amazing mineral deposit found in Canada someone would invade but now they can just pay of a Canadian politician and China can own part of Canada so no need to fire a bullet. All the politicians are there to wad their pockets. Canada is a shithole of dumb people. It is also about to become communist but JJ won't cover that it is not part of his agenda leading the sheeple.
Canada: I deserve a trophy for not being America.
Yet it is American but in denial
"How about a participation ribbon, America Junior?"
Kind of like Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush.
America is the greatest country on earth, we just hit a rough four year patch
@@Rounderyathecruel says an american of course.
Canada: "I hate you"
USA: "I barely even think about you"
That’s is so accurate.
USA: "I hate you"
China: "We're 4x your size. I barely even think about you, however all your authors and news shows keep talking about me"
@@ElGrandoCaymano Canada: you have 2 of our citizens illegally detained. Your government is illegitimate
@@alexh4319 dude, when china isn’t violating it’s citizens rights it’s trying to take as much power away from India and America as possible. Look up the belt and road initiative.
Ha GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
"petty ideology based around Canadian insecurities"
BINGO
Bro a lot of us Canadians don't even like our own politics.
@@Bub_rentaran As an Argentinian, I strongly agree. Sometimes I am baffled to how people still keep voting corrupt governments even to this day.
@@davidkonevky7372 propaganda
people will vote for anyone who strokes their anti America inferiority complex. All a corrupt third world government has to do these days is say "America bad" and it'll get reelected with flying colors. kinda pathetic really.
Lol
Mate, thank you. I'm an American and I had a former British friend who's plan was "Woo me by telling me Britain is so much better than the evil American empire." I used to feel bad calling her a nationalist because she's about as left as one could get. I know she isn't Canadian but this video hit home for me. Here's hoping for more good relations between our countries. 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
Why would that woo anyone?
@@newwaveinfantry8362 I don't think she was mentally well. She had a lot of issues.
That's very ironic considering all the horrible things the british empire did.
@@TashaPetrenkoThe British Empire was probably the most benevolent one in history.
@@newwaveinfantry8362 Towards some of there colonies yes, but when they colonized them and how they treated india taxing 80 percent causing famines. Not saying there the most evil but they weren't the best when it came to there other colonies.
Correct me if im wrong but there’s a lot of left wing nationalism around the world like Irish Republicanism, Catalonian nationalism and Basque nationalism
Bruh moment #2 Absolutely right, as JJ explained, nationalism can be anywhere on the political spectrum, but unfortunately conservatism and nationalism tend to be conflated in Western culture (and even more unfortunately with racial superiority thanks to Hitler...)
In Catalonia and with the Basques there are also racist indépendentists eugeneticists
I don't think Ireland because a centre to centre right party cut ties with the commonwealth but the Basque country yes very much
tbotnoblett Irish Republicanism is the independence movement for Ireland. Nowadays the irish republican movement calls for the reunification of Northern Ireland to Ireland and its considered a nationalist movement.
Calling some of these movements left wing sort of ignores the fact that most of these movements were born before mondern left/right wing dicotimes
Everyone who's saying that Canada is obsessed with a country that doesn't care about Canada should realize that this is just natural. This happens everywhere.
You have a similar relationships between Austria and Germany, Luxembourg and its neighbors and notoriously almost every country surrounding Russia with Russia.
In the case of Austria, I think the push to create a cultural differentiation between Austria and Germany, despite being both ethnically and linguistically being German and being united under a single polity (the Holy Roman Empire) for most of their history, is driven by the association of pan-Germanism with the Nazis. Ever since the Nazis, there's been a real push in both Germany and Austria to not define nationality along ethnic or linguistic lines, which creates a push to create a national identity in Austria that is separate and distinct from the rest of the German-speaking world.
Not really but ok
And here in the US you got China taking the place of Russia
Well, every country surrounding Russia are culturally different from Russians.
Vin Facts you would be surprised that this is very untrue.
Pulling a knowing better by getting other people to read the quotes. Nice
While also knowing better than knowing better.
@@microcolonel lol, true
@@microcolonel you just killed him wtf
Archduke Franz Ferdinand I thought you were assasinated 100 years ago?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand yeah, not to be rude but aren’t you supposed to be hella deceased?
Found this very interesting but was left a little disappointed that you didn't address where Quebec fits into this picture of Canadian Nationalism. The very existence of Quebec makes the concept of Canadian nationalism even more interesting.
much
Funnily enough, this means that without America, Canada probably wouldn't be as unified as they are, or wouldn't be Canada at all.
Well if by "without America" you mean "The Revolution never happened", we would be one nation today. WWII would also have been a LOT shorter.
Can’t say Canada is united, perpetual request from Québec to get more indépendance, from Alberta to be more conservative, from BC to be more environmental.etc
That's right. And without UK there were no USA, thus why fight them in war for independence?
You're welcome, Canada!
There are certain cultural things beyond political structure that tie Canada together, east-west. But overall, the Maritime Provinces are similar to northern New England, Ontario to the Mid-West (which includes some prominent cities), the Praire Provinces to the Prairie States (conservative cowboys who love oil...), and British Columbia to the Pacific NW. Sure, there are British instititions and cultural artefacts... but America has those too (maybe fewer that date to the 19th or 20th centuries, but still).
And even that left wing spirit not only ignores how conservative parts of Canada are, but how liberal parts of America are. In fact, the brand of liberalism in Canada is hugely American-influenced. The major American cities and Canadian cities are similarly liberal, and their rural areas similarly conservative. Even peculiarly American conservative ideas like the 2nd amendment seep over because these people share a language and media space.
And in the end, British North America already has a lot in common as evidenced in the name.
One of the great life experiences I had: living abroad (both in China and Korea) and both times, all my roommates were Americans. Not only was I absorbing the new cultures of these countries, I was fortunate to have brothers at my side. When I was alone, in another country, as a Canadian, I didn't have confidence that the Canadian government would be able to save me if I happen to step out of bounds, so I lived very anxiously for a bit; but, my friend, from a location south to my biological birthplace , he had faith and belief that if an American citizen was unlawfully detained in another country, the United States of America and the Constitution would protect him and his liberty. I was and am still envious of that.
The two Michaels are still detained in China. Huawei and other CCP backed companies are actively promoting their spyware on Canadian television.
Canada isn't any better than USA. The biggest problem with Canadian's is that we typically prop ourselves up and use the American's as an opportunity to virtue signal, while we continue to ignore the poison water in the reservations of Canada's first people.
Americans are very protective of their own lol. And I mean that in a citizenship, not ethnicity, way. Obama was notorious for warmongering and bombing the shit out of the Middle East but his final nail in the coffin was when he ordered a strike on an American citizen visiting his grandfather in Yemen.
After that, anyone with enough brain cells to not be brainwashed by the media lost all respect for him.
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 heck ya, Frick Obamabiden! Trump2024
Thank you for your kind words! It's hard to hear people, especially those we consider to be our brothers from the north, bash us. I try to remember that it's prolly for a reason and sadly not all Americans who go abroad are nice people so that why we make a bad impression. I'm happy to hear you had a good experience with some of us and your travels over all were great!
Canada died on election day 2015
Huh...I never thought about it like that, yea if I were wrongly imprisoned I always feel like my people and my Government would be up in arms. And I wouldn't say better then USA, I'd more base your worth on the great things you do that make your people happy and healthy. That also includes addressing issues of the nation in my book too, America has to tangle with that plenty!~ Much love my Canadian buddy!
In Scotland we two types of nationalism British nationalism which is seen as right-wing and very similar to nationalism in North England and Northern Ireland.
We also have Scottish Nationalism which is seen as more left-wing and anti-British and pro-EU (Very similar to Irish nationalism in Northern Ireland)
I actually find it quite funny how pro-EU some “nationalists” are considering the EU is very anti-nationalist
Seems unfair to call the North England nationalist. It's all over England. And there are exceptions in the north such as Liverpool which is a left wing Labour city. With Irish roots which sees it self as not English
Yeah it's funny how British nationalists tend to be very Pro American and very anti European even though America got its independence not really to the likeing of the UK.
Tom W I never called north England nationalistic it’s just British nationalists in north England are similar to British nationalists in Scotland
Fusilier Thresher yeah if Scotland ever became independent (god fucking help us if we do) I’d imagine the SNP would change their name as being labelled national socialist wouldn’t exactly go well with the rest of the world
@@don-jx2xn here in Spain it's even more complicated than that. We have Spanish nationalism, which is seen as (and is) right-wing and then we have Catalan and Basque nationalism/independentism, each one with a left-wing and a right-wing political party (the two right-wing independentist political parties in this regions, the Catalan European Democratic Party and the Basque Nationalist Party, have taken a very sharp turn to the left in the last few years though, so I would hardly call them right-wing now).
My mom's side of the family is Canadian and I've talked to lots of other Canadians about this as well and a lot of the stuff they believe about America is legitimately insane, like a majority of them literally believed Vladimir Putin directly ran our government under the last administration; words cannot describe how unfathomably stupid, ignorant, and completely detached from reality you'd have to be to believe stuff like that. Sadly Canada is suffering from the same devastating issue as America where the media is a straight up propaganda arm for one party as opposed to actually being objective and balanced. This only fuels nationalism, which I really hate. The global living standard would be significantly higher if we could all just freely trade with one another, working together instead of squabbling like children.
Lmao free market andy🤡
@@Advanced4Head Lmao doesn't understand basic economics Barbox 🤡
@@Kyotosomo lmao thinks that companies actually care about their workers 🤡
@@Advanced4Head Lmao Barbox not understanding that it doesn't matter whether they care or not when regardless they have to pay you roughly what your market value is 🤡. Sounds like you're just pissed that we all see you as worthless, maybe learn to be a better negotiator or try making yourself a better canidate instead of crying to random strangers on the internet lol. Also btw almost half of all jobs in the US are supplied by small business owners and nearly all of them genuinely care about their employees, I certainly care about mine, thank you for proving though you have zero understanding of basic economics and are ideed a 🤡 thanks for the laugh I appreciate it :)
@@Advanced4Head why should they? Does anyone care about the roofers fixing their home past them doing a good job and being safe? Like I hope they have a wonderful life and never get hurt but I can't say I truly care about them. Its the same with an employee.
As a New Zealannder, I always knew this. We are tought about the wars the British Empire fought, and in them we were tought about the wars and skirmishes between Canada, and US. Canada is so similar to New Zealand, Australia, and many other Commonwealth Realms, we also continued to side with the British Empire and Her Majesty. Though my country is by far a British Majoriy, and many New Zealanders actually hate the French. We will always see an ally in Canada, and will always hold similar views to the US (Not as Anti-US as you lot).
Don't worry, most us Canadians hate the French as well.
@@shelbydesousa2227 haha lol
@Luís Filipe Andrade nah, we have a relationship like your provinces with one and another, or American states with one and another. We are like family, but in that we're very competitive against each other, and talk alot of sh*t against each other but that's just banter, we hold Australia and Britain as our strongest allies, and have Canada just below, we're brothers in arms, but Britain and partially Australia are our strongest allies.
Shelby DeSousa ive traveled most of Europe as an American and I can say I am pretty sure everyone hates the french
As a kiwi I find this comment hilarious, even more so considering I find myself agreeing with every point
learned more about canadian history from your channel than i ever did in class
You're stupid.
With a very biased version.
@Shanika Kelly . it is an opinion , not mine!
Almost everything he said was made up, unfortunately
i know and im Canadian
I’m Canadian and this is the first Canadian I’ve heard pronounce “about” like that 😬
I think it’s an affectation. It has to be. I’ve never heard anyone from here talk like that.
Neither have I. Maybe from the Atlantic Provinces, like Newfoundland?
@@daisygiesbrecht7589 in my experience its very specifically from the annapolis valley area in NS
I agree with you his about is like 90% stronger then most Canadians.
I think he’s said elsewhere that he’s always lived in Vancouver and was even made fun of by other kids growing up for speaking like this.
I am an American who lived in Vancouver BC in the 90s and have lived in the UK since 2006. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. They speak to my experience, especially this one. When living in Canada, I remember going to the doctor for the first time and the doctor actually called someone else in the room to hear my deep southern accent- I was asked multiple times about how I dealt with the influence of the KKK (!) and the lack of indoor plumbing (!!!!)- and I do remember being in a movie theatre watching Independence Day - the moment that the White House gets obliterated by aliens there was a standing ovation in the theatre- quite an eye-opening experience for an American from a conservative part of the country who had always been taught the USA was the world's great hope
oh my god, that's hilarious
What country did you watch this movie in
I’m proud to be a Canadian, I think it’s a pretty nice country. But I don’t see the point in hating the United States though, that’s not helping anyone.
HATING USA IS STUPIDITY, THEY KEEP US SAFE DAY AND NIGHT
Most Canadians don't hate Americans. This just seems like this guy needed a topic to make money and picked this for some reason.
@@peterbarjona6150 wow how naive can you be, THE NEWS TELLS ME WE ARE THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD SO FUCK YOU
USA is a rough place to live, it has an authoritarian regime, and the president is basically racist (hated mexicans and muslims), I don't think anyone normal should respect racism, also there is basically no free healthcare etc...so basically USA is just a weird neighbour of Canada, kinda the opposite.
@@rakijaenjoyer5488 You'r the kind of person that causes racism, Trump is no racist, and when you're drunk on Vodka, you're listening to LEFT WING BIAS CBC OR GLOBAL NEWS, you need AA to sober up and find out who you are.......right now you are a jealous sick puppy. Stupid does what stupid says.
I understand the desire to preserve national independence, but some of this seems like Balkan levels of pettiness.
You try to be the nation that is completely covered by another nation's economy, influence, industry, culture and not feel anxious.
@@johnpijano4786 well most Americans love Canada and if someone suggested, "to take over Canada", no one would take it seriously.
@@mattrix666 yeah, hell, i think that half of the states and all of the territories -cough colonies- shouldn't even be in the Union.
@@lepidotos here's an idea: America deports all liberals to Canada, Canada deports all conservatives to America.
@@commenterjosh2428 i wouldn't go, it's damn cold up there. splitting based on political lines is stupid anyway, splitting based on cultural region and affinity with a political spark like how oil is foreseen to become too expensive to use in about 35 years or a least-popular president in a four way tie winning is the real shit.
In my country south Korea nationalism is a left-wing thing too. Because right wing in South Korea is essentially just anti-communism. So they detest North Korea. And they either aim for total destruction of North Korea or status quo under US-S.Korea alliance. They never believe in the idea of having dialogue to solve the North Korean issue. They consider North Korea to be something that can only be dealt with by force and pressure. On the other hand the left wing party is very nationalistic. Their whole existence is based on unifying the Korean people under one nation. And they aim to achieve it with any cost. Some extremists even support the idea of forming federation with the North under Kim's rule as long as we can become one sovereign nation. They don't value US-S.Korea alliance that much and they even think it's something that we can give up in exchange for reunification.
So when we look at our politics we waste so much time talking about North Korea and not about the things that actually matter to the ordinary people.
Michael K Another form of left-wing nationalism in South Korea is anti-Japanese sentiment mostly due to Korea's brutal history when it was part of the Japanese Empire.
Michael K I’ve noticed this about South Korea too, and it seems very annoying to me in a way that reminds me of Canada. I should do a video on countries that remind me of Canada
@@ekmalsukarno2302 Yes that is very true. They try to use anti-japanese sentiment to fuel nationalistic sentiment among the people so that people pay more attention to reunification and give them more votes... That's why it's very difficult to keep good relationships with Japan.. which is very sad.
Michael K The reason anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea is a form of left-wing nationalism is because anti-Japanese sentiment is rooted in anti-imperialism.
Really unfair characterization of nationalism in South Korea.
Most South Koreans are nationalists, but of the ethnonationalist variety.
They value the nation over the geopolitical entity, which is Korea.
All parties in Korea are based around unifying the Korean nation.
So to say the right is not nationalistic is just unfair and disingenuous.
If anything, the left may not be as in uniting the two countries because they perceive ethnonationalism as fascistic and that integrating the North is hopeless.
You're a rare Canadian gem. As an American that has traveled quite a bit to Canada, I was surprised at how the anti-american sentiment was so strong in everyday life of Canadians. We tend to have this rosey, cousin-like view of Canada, and that was beaten (not physically) out of me while visiting. Kind of turned me off to returning soon, honestly.. So glad to find your channel!
I'm curious, what happened when you visited Canada? Did you get a lot of flack for being American?
@@breakingfree7244 not really personal attacks.. just a lot of passive aggressive statements and more than average comparisons on how much better Canada is than the US. They all seem very obsessed with everything US but focus one the bad a lot in general conversation, and they REALLY hated when I said that Canada feels exactly like the states in almost every way.. 😂
One waitress asked me if I was visiting to escape “the hell that is the states” and I said that “everyday life is nothing like what you see in the news and life is great!”… she seemed kinda upset to hear that, but delivered in that pure Canadian “friendly” passive aggressive kinda way. I genuinely think they really want us to talk about how awful life/the country is at every opportunity and they really get a rise out of it.. haha. That being said, I love Canada and my Canadian friends. Just a weird dynamic up there.
@@breakingfree7244 for context, this was in a fairly small town in Alberta, so what you said is spot on. Same things happens here in the more rural areas. My prior visits to Vancouver and Toronto were pretty typical north American big cities with all the familiar charm and flaws of our big cities. There was less small talk with strangers and I didn’t get much of those vibes. However, I never advertised I was from the states after those first couple visits to Alberta haha
How could they decipher your American?
JJ I’ve always agreed with your accurate assessments on how Canadas this crazy Left-wing country that’s scared of America. Myself, I’m pro USA in every way. I always think Canadas Nationalism should be as well.
If a Canadian ever gets pissy with you just remind them that they didn't actually burn down the Whitehouse, it was troops from Britain.
Don't
War of 1812 = officers mostly from UK, enlistee militiamen mostly from Canada. The only precedent to the Jan. 6th 2021 insurrection by seditionist insurrectionist traitors attacking DC was in War of 1812 by Canadian's loyal to Britain. Not British from Britain loyal to the UK, but Canadians from Canada loyal to the UK. Lesson To Be Learned = Only North Americans can be the undoing of North American countries (Also, its not being 'pissy' of Canadians for having better socio-political institutions than the USA, its just stating facts to arrogant neighbors.)
@@prismaticplurality5151 Early 19th century troop transport logs...are cited where?
@@prismaticplurality5151 Jesus, man, read between the lines! That's what I was eluding to when I said "Early 19h century transport logs...are cited where?" You honestly saying that a mere 4,500 soldiers, as battle hardened professionals as they were, did that amount of damage (not just referring to Washington burning!) in that short amount of time to a population of 7-10 million? The 4500 were the only ones who were accurately RECORDED because of the logistics involved in getting them over the pond in the age of sails...Maybe in my initial comment I should've specified the word "officer" as being both commissioned AND NCO's. British military leadership in War of 1812 = 4,500 (sure, entire leadership showed up at the actual battle of Washington DC). They commanded/led the MAJORITY of the force which comprised of non-NCO enlistees (which were a hell of alot more than a mere 4500) but, being as how they were north american militiamen scrounged up toward the end of the war, not nearly as well counted. Hence my comment about looking for the transport records since, upon one finding them and APPLYING "basic-ass" COMMON SENCE, one sees that the numbers don't add up. Canadian historians have mentioned this discrepancy in documentaries once or twice over the years.
@CT 1776 American by birth, not by choice.
I looked up the dairy tariffs between US and Canada. The US was 17% and Canada was 270%. Yeah it almost quadrupled the price.
🧀We've begun a cheese smuggling operation from the UP into Ontario using submarines and stealth technology, in exchange for maple syrup. Would you like a slice of the action? 🧀🤠
Have you ever been to Canada and tasted our Canadian cheese? Tastes awful! It's pure crap! If you had, you would understand why the Canadian dairy industry needs the 270% dairy tariffs just to survive! They have made it very hard to find American cheese here in Canada. Most 'American' cheeses in Canada are actually made in Canada.
American cattle was soft banned for a time due to the whole mad cow disease thing and the meat not being up to standard
The US government pays 75% of the diary industry's cost. The Canadian government doesn't. The tariff compensated for that.
@@rambling964 and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board
Ireland has left-wing nationalists aswell, Sinn Féin.
Left Wing Marxism Eh? Ireland Must Love Karl Marx. Germany Got Rid Of Karl Marx And Marx Went To England..
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@@mgtowp.l.7756 LOL
@@mgtowp.l.7756 ???
As an American, I never knew Canadians hated us. Yes there are a few Americans that hate Canada, but we really thought that they were chill and were friends.
I feel like JJ is giving people the impression that there’s this sentiment in Canadian media that America sucks and we’re activity cultivating that hatred. But our media is almost entirely American. We go on Reddit, watch the news, read papers - even in Japan, people talk more about how shitty Americas culture is today. But we’re all mostly getting it from American media, not ours. People look at the US now and see it as a symbol of modern decline. Canada is afraid of that decline and being pulled down, whether real or hyperbole. We don’t hate Americans, not really, but America kind of scares us. I’ve got no praise for Canada though - it’s the blandest, most lethargic country I’ve lived in.
well now you know
It’s not hatred it’s…smug superiority
@@dothedeed yeah I think this is more like it
Yeah it's because any Canadians who don't hate America usually move there and realize Canada isn't paradise
Awesome video, JJ. I’m a Brazillian who lives in Canada since 2018 and I can feel the anti-americanism. Honestly, I find it a little pathetic. U.S. is such a great country and was built on strong values and beliefs that, unfortunately, we don’t see that much around these days
Você é bem vindo aqui nos EUA!
For a Brazilian you have better grammar than mos Canadian and American people
@@jamienote I've found that people who learn a new language are often more careful with their grammar, having learned it at a later age.
Like you, who dropped the t in "most" lol
As an American, im calling bs. This country was founded on lies and slavery. I don’t think Canada is any better, but america isn’t some magical good holy land by any means lmao. As someone who’s lived and seen the horrible parts of this country, it is not built on strong values. It’s a lie. It’s Hollywood. None of it’s real.
@@Punkini Canada was founded by Americans who brown nosed the British and then started expanding and stealing french land and deporting the french
I have a solution that pleases nobody:
America annexes Canada, then becomes “The British Dominion of North America”
The Queen sure would be happy
Americans used to treat the UK like how Canada treats America now. Slight concealed hatred.
@@lemonade4181 but not anymore we really dgf
This should realistically happen. Cuz Canada is basically America's bitch economically demographically militarily and everything else.
@@vyktorehon5995 and you’re technically the governments bitch
Basically, left wingers like Canada and right wingers like the USA. This applies to both nations.
L P No. Not at all.
Luke Ricker Why not?
L P That’s not true. Incorrect. A falsity. What else do you need to hear? Canadian conservatism is far different than American republicanism. So a lot of Canadian right wing do not like the USA. They like Canada. They support universal healthcare. And so on.
Eh? What's so left wing about smashing indigenous rights and exporting tar sands?
How about we send America's left-wingers to Canada, and you send your conservatives to the USA? Then we'll sit back and see how well each nation prospers.
As an American, I've always considered Canadians to be so similar to us. We basically have the same culture. I am constantly surprised to find out how an actor or a band I enjoy are actually Canadian. They've been so ingrained into my own culture, that I've mistaken them for being my own culture. We really just have and share a "North American" culture.
There are a lot of differences as well
It's funny; I knew they hated the US, but at the same time I was raised on stereotypes of Canadians as friendly, brotherly neighbors who are kind and altruistic to an comedic level.
We dont hate them. We just dont buy into the Hollywood version they have brainwashed most of the world to believe.
We definitely do not hate the United States. Eastern Canadians are culturally more united with North Eastern Americans than other parts of the US are with each other.
Canadians don't hate the US. I mean a few might, but that's not part of the ethos. It's more like Canada has this smug superiority complex when it comes to the US.
It's not that we hate the U.S. We just wonder why you have so many problems that you could fix if you would just work together on them.
We don't. If anything, we just wonder if you still care, you know?
Thank you for this video. It has helped me to tie together a lot of thoughts and concerns about our two countries that I've had for a while now. I say "our" because I live in Canada, married to an American wife. The two countries are dear to me, as are many people in both places.
My wife gets treated differently- mostly poorly- when people here find out that she's American, even though she is culturally indistinguishable until it's pointed out. It is a source of endless frustration to me. Canadians are proud, bordering on smug, of our international reputation for being "nice". However, I have come to understand that as a group, we are not. How can we truly be, when we are assholes to our closest and best allies?
I wish more people from both countries could get to know each other. I feel the same way about people from all kinds of different social, cultural, and economic backgrounds. Because when we know someone who is an "other", we find out that individuals often have a lot in common, and it is much harder to vilify them, as most Canadians do Americans.
I'll be showing this to some of the people I know. I'm proud of being Canadian, but I'm looking for other reasons than simply being "not American". Please make a video about that.
/Rant
Our "closest neighbour" literally hates us at the moment. Trump is more than willing to destroy Canadian relations to stay in power; I'm perplexed as to why you're essentially defending our captor.
@@magical11 Donald Trump’s opinion of Canada is every American’s opinion of Canada?
I agree, we are assholes and display an egregious sense of smugness and false superiority that is totally unjustified. Canadians are so fucked up about their relationship with the US that they display this false bravado which in many instances is a cover for a sense of inferiority and insignificance. Like the South Park joke...blame it on Canada, nobody cares...
The other not so nice Canadian trait is passive aggression, because we dislike direct confrontation we tend to “backdoor” our adversaries. Nice.
@@magical11 didn't trump and trudeau actuay have pretty amiable relations during those four years he was president?
@@lepidotos trump went back and forth so many times on so many relations and policies that weren't important to him, that it's not even funny anymore
canada has an identity issue. were too obsessed trying not american that we don’t have national culture
Canada is a CIA Black site. Canada has been used as a staging ground for CIA social experimentation and mind control since the late 80’s/ early 90’s. Think about it… Ask any American what they know about Canada and they will tell you it’s a land of lollipops and rainbows. Isn’t it funny how Canada is the 10th largest economy in the world, yet no one knows anything about it? If you want to hide something put it in plain sight.
@@brettstefanishin574 Those CIA experiments you talk about started way earlier, in the late 50s to be exact.
@@independentthought3390 Yes, but I'm talking wide-scale social experimentation. As in, on large bodies of ordinary citizens living day-to-day lives. I think what you're referring to are controlled experiments with only a handful of people.
@@independentthought3390 Canada is really the best place to test and perfect social engineering models. No one cares to even think about Canada, so if something did go horribly wrong up there, no one would even notice. When's the last time you heard something negative about Canada domestically? Nothing that happens in Canada escapes its borders. A perfect prison.
I dream of the day when we get our very own "Emperor Mengsk" and this failure of a "Dominion" turns into an ACTUAL Dominion.
@ Brett Stafanishin Canadian Citizen here, wow, I had no idea that I had no way of communicating with the outside world, then this entire "TH-cam" site must be some CIA fake. Hell maybe the entire "Internet" as I know it is fake? Oh god I'm having a Truman Crisis!
It is far easier to have free healthcare when your southern neighbor is essentially your defense budget.
That would be a good explanation if their healthcare set-up costed their economy more proportionally than the US healthcare set-up costs the US economy when all measurable consequences are taken into account, but it doesn't.
I have reputable sources within the Canadian government that would refute your refutation. (However, comment sections are no place for such debates, so I will leave it at that)
The medical system of the USA is also a handy back-up for Canadians when their own health care system fails to meet their needs.
@@compulsiverambler1352 The explanation being that in the USA we pay a lot for health care AND defense. In Canada you pay very little for defense because you live next door to the most powerful country in the world ...a friendly country that guarantees your security and makes your way of life possible.
@@fernandoamy8278 If I ever went to Canada, being right next to the USA would definitely not be the reason I would feel safe. The USA has made enemies that want to attack it and have attacked it; Canada hasn't.
I love Canada. It's beautiful! With mostly nice people. But I did find that everyone was weirdly defensive when visiting in my mid-20s. Once people knew I was from 'Merica, there was an ever-present need to juxtapose everything we did, talked about, etc. against it. It was so fucking weird. Like their whole worldview was fastened to perceptions of 'difference' between the two nations. It made it difficult to actually enjoy the country. Having said that, I've been since and while I still have those experiences, it's not nearly as profound. Maybe due to my age???
How old are you? I'm curious to know at what point the culture in Canada changed like that
I wish people would stop saying "Murica."
@@phrobozz He was probably being sarcastic in saying "Murica". I've never heard anyone unironically call the USA that.
It's not you or America that has a problem.....it's CANADA! Canadians have a major insecurity problem!
....because Canadians have never really had a very strong national identity! That's what you get when you let "others" define your national character for you! Yes, you can blame Britain and colonialism for that one! (Unlike Canadians, Americans have been creating their own path and defining themselves since before 1776!) You can see proof of all of this any time you ask any Canadian "What makes you Canadian?" You'll find that most will answer "We're not Americans!"
Ah so this is why Alberta is the most “American” province. We voted for the Conservative party to run our provincial government for 40 years in a row...
i can't tell a difference between alberta and montana
@RoastWorthy exactly
Wow you’re lucky. I wish I was from Alberta. It sucks here in Ontario
@@scarysanta4811 Ontario is great it is just the GTA/Ottawa that is the main problem.
I noticed Canadian flags on the backpacks of Canadians in Europe in 1990. Few other backpackers felt the need to fly a national flag while on holiday. I asked a Canadian why they did, and he replied, "So, we don't get mistaken for Americans".
I've heard stories of Americans with Canadian flags on backpacks too ...
Yeah, as a Canadian, that shit is embarrassing
There was a strange woman in CDG airport wearing a jacket with red maple leaves all over it, and underneath a red sweatshirt with a giant white maple leaf, I'm not kidding. We were on our way to the states and she literally screamed at the gate staff when they asked for her passport that she was NOT AMERICAN and Canadian (in English, not French of course). I felt like I was in a skit, she was so unhinged I hoped not to be anywhere near her on the plane. I'm just happy she outed herself and was thrilled she wasn't one of us!
The idea of a Canada trying to NOT trade with the US is absolute hilarity.
The Canadians don’t even have the navy to protect their shipping routes. They rely on the US for that.
The US Navy would be smirking as it guarded their temper tantruming cargo ships on their way to pick up some totally non-American goods from somewhere that couldn’t trade with them without us.
Bitterness.
That’s the word on the tip of my tongue as I watch this.
The identifying characteristic of Canadian anti-Americanism is bitterness.
They’re bitter at our strength that gives us relative immunity to world concerns and they don’t think us morally “worthy” of that strength even as they live and thrive beneath its benefits.
The fact remains that if Canada broke apart or went destitute, the US wouldn’t take very much of a hit from it, maybe import some educated refugees and get cheaper raw goods, that’s it..
..but if the US broke apart or went destitute?
Canada dies.
It would kill the Canada dead.
They’re bound to our fate, but we aren’t bound to theirs.
..and they’re bitter over it.
I’d gladly keep their bitterness if it meant keeping the power in our hands, which looking at the state of Russia and China and the EU, looks like will be what the world gets for the next century, more American power.
Some Canadian bitterness is a welcome trade for that and we’d trade for it every time.
The world is heading into an economic hurricane, by the end of it the Canadian smugness will have broken and they’ll be sheepishly thankful for the spot they hold when they compare how America’s friends are living to the images of famines on their TV.
We are..inevitable.
So is a future of fresh Canadian humility in our relationship.
There’s nowhere else for them to turn.
Honestly, I wish Canadians had the relationship with the US that most Americans think the US has with Canada.
If most Americans knew how most Canadians really felt, being Canadian would get extremely unpleasant.
If there was suddenly political will in the US to start hurting Canadian feelings?
Yeah. We could make it suck up there.
It’s only the general American sense of goodwill and camaraderie that most of my countrymen that don’t live on the border like I do mistakenly think exists between our two people that has left the Canadian smugness towards the United States unanswered.
If it keeps growing, and if it keeps going mainstream like it has been, they’re gonna get that answer, and I imagine it’ll get quieter after that.
A lot of this can be applied to a sentiment in Ireland, regarding our relationship to Britain
How much do you hate England?
@@millevenon5853 yes
@@millevenon5853 I'm not Irish but I live in Dublin, I would say most of the Irish feel kind of bitter towards the UK when it comes to their history, to tell you the truth Britain screwed Ireland over pretty badly in the past. And it gets even more awkward considering Northern Ireland is part of the UK and many of the Northern Irish feel loyalty the the UK; a lot even call themselves British. But there are plenty of British people living in Ireland, and many Irish people living in Britain, and no one is really treated differently. It's more of a history thing than a current thing, and the people themselves certainly aren't vilified over it.
@@Musickt196 it seems most Irish forgave the English too quickly and now just view them as fellow whites.
@@millevenon5853 again I'm not Irish but I wouldn't blame some random dude from London for something the British government did before he was born. That's dumb.
J.J is one of the only youtubers, when everytime I see a new notification, I stop what I am doing and watch.
Alex Xhane same
That's awesome! I have TH-camrs who are that for me, so it's awesome to be that for you!
J.J. McCullough you are one of my favourite TH-camrs and you are definitely one of those TH-camrs where i would go immediately to one of your videos once you upload
@@JJMcCullough Hey dude I'm very very left wing but I love your channel anyways, you do a great job at separating your own opinion from facts, I think a lot more political channels should learn a lot from you
Hey sans!
As a former Canadian, current American, this is a really weird idea.
Many left-wing Americans are also very pro-Canadian and anti-American, talking about all the ways Canada is better. It’s really not all that different, but alright.
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Mopscrub Left wing Americans often project their fantasies on to other countries as a kind of utopia.
@@JJMcCullough True. Although I guess an actual "utopia" (or at least close enough to it) would be a mix of all the good stuff from America, Canada, and Japan.
Also, left-wing here...
Not American tho so...
Should I even be here? XD
Mopscrub canada isnt any different from america, and I hate when people try their best to seem more significant by hating on others. Lets hope for people to be much kinder to others.
@@JJMcCullough Not necessarily, JJ. There may be some truth to that, but in my case, it is admiration not only of certain social policies that are mostly lacking here in the US (universal health care, for instance) but also of a sense of greater social solidarity in Canada than is true here in the US. Just peruse some of the comments from a couple of Americans here that they don't know why they should pay for someone else's health care, while Canadians are appalled at such thinking. But in no way does that mean that Canada (or anywhere else) is a Utopia. It is the mentality that is different, and this is of such importance to me that sometimes I think that I was born on the wrong side of the 49th parallel. Whenever I have visited Canada, I have always felt that I was more "in sync" with Canadians than with people in my own country. But I am too old now to do anything about that...
Another thing this video reminded me of was that when I lived in Canada, they taught us that the US invaded Canada I the War of 1812 caused the war, and that the Canadians defended their land and won.
When I moved to the US, they taught us that the British caused the war by seizing US ships and crews and undermining US independence, and that the US won because they asserted their independence from the British.
There is some truth to both sides of course, but each side twists the story to make them seem righteous and victorious.
In most US school systems, it's taught as a draw. It was militarily inconclusive, with the Americans, British, and Canadians all getting things that they wanted in the end. We're taught that the real losers were the Native Americans. One could get the impression that in Canada, only the Canadian theater of the war is taught and nothing else.
as a canadian, I was taught the british took american ships
@@wade2boshbesides, they burnt down York(modern day toronto) it's only fair what we did