• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Canadians are generally considered super nice and polite by Americans

    That’s actually a common misconception. We aren’t really all that nice. We just do passive aggressive really, really well.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I will accept passive aggression. A lot of people don’t bother with the passive.

      I don’t know what our reputation is globally but I live in a tourist city (New Orleans). A lot of people don’t even bother with the passive part. Most “tier 1” conference cities are huge but we’re a relatively small city. We have a population of about 350,000 (compared to over 8 million in New York City) but enough hotel space and a conference center, stadium, whatever able to host a global event. The Super Bowl was just here and Taylor Swift had three shows. Those were known events but there will be weekends where you go downtown and meet 20 exterminators or something before you realize the exterminator convention is in town. (This actually happened to me. There are so many more exterminators than you could ever imagine.)

      We host a lot of events and, as a result, even people who can’t afford travel meet people from everywhere. My high school friend is a bartender and he’ll have random hatred of places and professions because they’re obnoxious or don’t tip or whatever. To this day, he loves Hawaii residents because they had a football game here once and everyone was chill and nice.

      Anyway, I say all that to say: Canadians are more than welcome to be passive aggressive here. South Louisiana in general is more aggressive than passive.

      https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2007/10/08/edsbs-road-trip-baton-rouge