Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
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Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.
I'm American by birth, but I consider myself Canadian.
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
The Canadians kind of look out for each other a little bit.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.
We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
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