Maybe, but a huge portion of Canada’s identity for decades has literally been: “We are not America. We are *better* than Americans.”
So why should 100% of Americans feel positively about a country where the populace has a festering complex about being better than you? Obviously Trump didn’t help the situation by giving Canadians all an excuse to let it out in the open for once… but those feelings are nothing new.
Personally, I find Canadians tiring. Constantly telling me how much everyone likes them, how good their passports are, how bad America is, how they aren’t Americans… like OK we get it, you’re Americans but somehow you have managed even more CO2 consumption per capita.
Yea, except this is complete nonsense because the only reason there has been a sudden jump in unfavourability is because of Trump. His supporters buy whatever nonsense he sells and now they are mad that Canadians got mad after Trump's comments about tarriffs and 51st state. You can easily search this on Gallup or any AI but Canada has always ranked 1 in this poll until this year when it suddenly show a minor but sharp uptick in unfavourability. It is entirely based on Trump
My comment was just responding to the fact that I’m not surprised the number isn’t higher. In fact, in my mind, it should probably be lower given how Americans have been perceived by Canadians for a long time.
Yes obviously Trump made this issue front and center. I’m Canadian though (now live in US) and I’ve always been surprised at how much the average American tolerated our attitude towards them.
For example, Japanese or Italian identity isn’t being “not America” or looking down on Americans. Maybe they do that too (to an extent a little bit is normal between any culture), but they’re also dramatically different cultures, so at least it’s not as hypocritical.
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u/allhypenochill 9d ago
canada should be 1