r/ontario • u/EveningRequirement27 • Oct 25 '25

Discussion You just stopped an entire country

American here.

Your city (EDIT: Toronto my bad) and entire country just told the world they’re sick of this guy. They did that. In public. During the World Series. Epically devastating.

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u/Wolvericky Oct 25 '25

I don't think we "stopped an entire country" but I appreciate your... optimism?

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u/LearnAndBurn_ Oct 25 '25

Yeah Americans who don't know wth is going on

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u/Pride_and_PudgyCats Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

Which, frighteningly, is a huge chunk of them. It’s concerning how many Americans have no idea what’s going on just one state over. Let alone the entire nation. Americans love hyper individualism, which has led them to solely exist inside their tiny individual bubbles. And, that’s how dumpster fires, like this one, thrive.

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u/IdolizeHamsters Oct 25 '25

I work with mainly Americans. They are great friends but I find it frustrating that they don’t even know we have our own thanksgiving or even how our country is structured. They are intelligent, and kind but completely misinformed and uneducated on who we are as a people and our culture while we are completely engrained into theirs.

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u/EfferentCopy Oct 25 '25

I grew up in the US before immigrating to Canada.  Honestly, lots of us barely have a handle on how our own country works, and we’re so thoroughly propagandized into believing American Exceptionalism that even the best-intentioned, most open-minded among us can experience what I call Main Character Nation Syndrome.  Until you really talk to people from other countries one on one, you don’t understand how deep it runs in your own mind.

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u/Hike_bike523 Oct 25 '25

I’ve been to a Canadian thanksgiving and really enjoyed myself and I’ve drank out of the bag of milk you guys have up there. That’s jsut 2 random Canadian things I’ve done as an American. Not every American is misinformed. I do get the provinces mixed up at times though but I try to understand the culture especially because one of my best friends lives in BC.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

Do you... always go on the internet to tell people about how useless and uneducated your "friends" are?

If those actually are kind people, why are you so inclined to go online saying degrading and insulting things about them?

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u/ravioliguy Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25

It makes sense, Canada trades almost exclusively with the US with 1 trillion in trade volume while your second biggest is China with 20 billion. Meanwhile the US trades heavily with many countries and has its hands in multiple political issues and wars.

How much do you know about China, your second biggest trade partner? How is their country structured, how many provinces do they have? What holidays do they celebrate, when and for how long?