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re: Has anyone ever claimed to be Canadian while traveling abroad??
Posted on 2/23/25 at 10:16 pm to Obtuse1
Posted on 2/23/25 at 10:16 pm to Obtuse1
Not my experience. If they think you are conservative they will bash you. We had to tell people we weren’t interested in politics and just wanted to have a nice stay in their country. They don’t like conservatives.
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Posted on 2/23/25 at 10:55 pm to deathvalleyfreak43
This same question was around in the 80’s. Ran into several groups of back packers that sewed Australian/New Zealand/Canadian flags on their packs while traveling in Europe.
Posted on 2/23/25 at 11:16 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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Not my experience. If they think you are conservative they will bash you. We had to tell people we weren’t interested in politics and just wanted to have a nice stay in their country. They don’t like conservatives.
That is bizarre to me, you must somehow wear it on your sleeve. In the last 30 years I have taken well over 100 international trips and outside of friends or co-workers in those countries I have only had politics come up 3 times. Twice was having longer conversations with ex-pats and once with a stall owner in The Brick Lane Vintage Market in Spitalfields outside London. I remember it so vividly because my wife and I left talking about WTF was that about.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 5:38 am to deathvalleyfreak43
Random strangers don’t give a shite about your daughter or where she’s from
This post was edited on 2/24/25 at 5:39 am
Posted on 2/24/25 at 6:24 am to deathvalleyfreak43
I’ve done it before but I’m basically half Canadian. Had nothing to do with how people would treat Americans that’s stupid everywhere I’ve been they love us
Posted on 2/24/25 at 6:24 am to GreenRockTiger
quote:England doesn’t mind Americans too much. France… specifically Paris, doesn’t like Americans too much.
Where in Europe would Canadians be preferred?
England maybe?? But other than that, most
Europeans respect the fact we got them out of two wars. Well, maybe not Germany.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 6:37 am to deathvalleyfreak43
I have a Canada t-shirt that I’m not opposed to wearing when traveling abroad
Posted on 2/24/25 at 6:49 am to PrimeTime Money
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France… specifically Paris, doesn’t like Americans too much.
They don’t like anybody
Posted on 2/24/25 at 6:52 am to greygoose
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"War Eagle" wherever I wear my Auburn gear.
This is actually a very big "no no" when traveling overseas, at least it was for the military. No matter where you go in Europe, Americans generally stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 6:59 am to deathvalleyfreak43
The dog people have been brought in, all over Europe, from the sand. They are feeling pretty rapey and stabby and you are bringing your family to that?
Maybe just go to Vancouver instead?
ETA: My wife, The Canadian, claims to be Canadian all of the time.
Maybe just go to Vancouver instead?
ETA: My wife, The Canadian, claims to be Canadian all of the time.
This post was edited on 2/24/25 at 7:01 am
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:02 am to Hangit
Just go ahead and put a Trudeau pin on your backpack so everyone will know for sure you're a pussy.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:03 am to deathvalleyfreak43
I developed the habit of telling people I'm from a [whatever state I lived in during that time] because when I said the US the next question was usually "which part?" anyway.
When I lived in Georgia, I got a few odd looks sometimes because I think they were more familiar with the birthplace of Stahlin than they were all 50 states.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:09 am to greygoose
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I proudly tell people where I'm from and get a "War Eagle" wherever I wear my Auburn gear.
Turning in a rental car in SNN in 06 wearing the most garish LSU shite I had, I heard a, "Someone smells like corndogs," from behind me, and it was an Auburn Zoo fan, probably you.
Blacks don't really get treated any differently in most countries, even Japan (we're all gaijin anyway.) Remember, every one of the European powers had colonies in Africa (except maybe Germany?) That said, I didn't see a lot of blacks in Eastern Europe.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:31 am to deathvalleyfreak43
I am sorry you allowed teachers and others to be indoctrinated into self-hate. If my daughter insisted on this I would insist she stay here.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:33 am to LemmyLives
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Remember, every one of the European powers had colonies in Africa (except maybe Germany?:
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Germany colonized Africa during two distinct periods. In the 1680s, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, then leading the broader realm of Brandenburg-Prussia, pursued limited imperial efforts in West Africa. The Brandenburg African Company was chartered in 1682 and established two small settlements on the Gold Coast of what is today Ghana. Five years later, a treaty with the king of Arguin in Mauritania established a protectorate over that island, and Brandenburg occupied an abandoned fort originally constructed there by Portugal. Brandenburg — after 1701, the Kingdom of Prussia — pursued these colonial efforts until 1721, when Arguin was captured by the French and the Gold Coast settlements were sold to the Dutch Republic.
Over a century and a half later, the unified German Empire had emerged as a major world power. In 1884, pursuant to the Berlin Conference, colonies were officially established on the African west coast, often in areas already inhabited by German missionaries and merchants. The following year gunboats were dispatched to East Africa to contest the Sultan of Zanzibar's claims of sovereignty over the mainland in what is today Tanzania. Settlements in modern Guinea and Nigeria's Ondo State failed within a year; those in Burundi, Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Togo quickly grew into lucrative colonies. Together these six countries constituted Germany's African presence in the age of New Imperialism. They were invaded and largely occupied by the colonial forces of the Allied Powers during World War I, and in 1919 were transferred from German control by the League of Nations and divided between Belgium, France, Portugal, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
The six principal colonies of German Africa, along with native kingdoms and polities, were the legal precedents of the modern states of Burundi, Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Togo. Chad, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Angola, Nigeria, Central African Republic and Republic of the Congo were also under the control of German Africa at various points during its existence.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 7:39 am to deathvalleyfreak43
We tell people we are from Louisiana about an hour from New Orleans. People tend to typically either tell us about a trip they took to NOLA or a trip they want to take to NOLA. Usually a good convo starter.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 8:13 am to deathvalleyfreak43
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my daughter is insisting we just tell everyone we’re from Canada…
your daughter is an a-hole, and you're a pussy
Posted on 2/24/25 at 8:15 am to deathvalleyfreak43
WTF? I don't care how they treat me. I am from the United States of America. What type of sell out shite is that?
Posted on 2/24/25 at 8:15 am to 777Tiger
I'm going abroad as a Haitian since the OP thinks being from the USA is a drag.
Posted on 2/24/25 at 8:18 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I'm going abroad as a Haitian since the OP thinks being from the USA is a drag.
funny thing is, in almost every place I've been to outside of the US you don't have to tell anyone where you're from, they know
how you doing Rog?
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