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alarikf said:
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the rest of the world calls Americans arrogant.
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Starhawk said:
Oh and no offense to any Canadians here, I hear it's a lovley country with polite people but lets face it in the grand world scheme of things most of the 3rd world nations probobly don't know what Canada is while 99.999% of the world knows of that huge ol' country the United States.
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Actually if you pay attention to the wording it is hardly arrogant, Americans have been everyhwere and usually it's in large numbers.
As others have pointed out so politely Canadians don't much go to other countries (em masse) so go ahead and ask an Afghani child if they know who Canada is I doubt theyd know.
How is that possibly arrogant or even insulting? It's just a matter of where your nation goes en masse vs where "private citizens" go and let's face it there are countries we here in the industrialized west don't know about (i'm talking on a citzen basis NOT government) and they probobly on average don't know much about north America so what are you claimimg i'm being arrogant by saying there are places in the world that your average joe on the street of a 3rd world country don't know about?
I mean damn man if you take everything an American says expecting it to sound arrogant and rude your going to find a way to twist it in your mind to sound arrogant and rude no?
Anyway Renegade as to what happened to my friend it was actually funny, he was stuck in Canada for two days before being "deported" (can't remember what they actually called it at the moment) to the US. basically they just sent him home because his passport was not entirely in order even after all the beurocratic stuff that took 2 days to find out what was wrong lol. but he hadn't done anything illegal so it was no big deal but it's not like the RCMP gave him a lawyer when they questioned him for the 4 hours.
Either way he thought it was funny because of the fact that his parents made a goof and he got to stay in Canada for two more days of vacation while the mess was sorted out. You know he never did tell me what was wrong with the passport heh.