tell me this is not how americans really think

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Whereever did you get that strange idea that Americans think?

Hmm, perhaps I should add the inability to detect facetiousness to my list of Canadian stereotypes. Seriously, this is about on the same level as taking Jay Leno's opening monologues as policy statements of American attitudes, even if we did have a unified opinion on something a comedy show would not be the place to find it.

It is funny that people in other countries seem to spend so much time worrying about what Americans think of them though, considering the amount of flack we get as a people our opinion seems to be awfully important to a lot of foreigners. I (obviously) could care less about rest if the world's opinions about us, what does annoy me is the hypocrisy that says that it's okay to generalize and stereotype Americans, but god forbid you mention Crocodile Dundee to an Aussie, or forget to qualify when talking about Islamic terrorism, then the PC police are on you like white on rice. People either need to get less touchy about their closet nationalism, or recognize that if they're going to generalize about Americans, than Americans are going to generalize about them, and if they're Canadians, that means pointing out their utter irrelevance as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

The media and the Governmental representation is out oftunewith the general population here in the States.

The media is out of touch, they like to skew the facts, spew their agenda by not representing the stories clear but will slander one person they do not like and twist hings to make someone else look better.

The governemnt... follow the money trail and you will really see it more like a frat house with factions vying for taxpayer money to launder into their private intersts or interests of their friends...

I'm a Canadian and the "invade Canada" stuff struck me as being obviously a joke. It's enlightening to see some right-wing humour, though admittedly I don't find it very funny.

And don't paint all Quebecers with the same brush. There are plenty of people in the province who don't support separation, and don't mind the rest of Canada. In fact there was a referendum on it, twice, and both times it was defeated. The last time was in 1995. Admittedly it was very close, but the separatist movement does not strike me as being as strong now as it was then.

Just to add to the fun, in some restaurants the term "Canadians" is code for "black people", the mortal foe of waiters and delivery drivers everywhere. If the wrong people heard a waiter complaining to the host about the huge ghetto contingent just seated in their section, harsh words or a lawsuit could follow, where as no one would think twice when they hear the same conversation about "Canadians". In delivery driver parlance, "the ghetto" becomes "Saskatchewan", as in "man, why do I have to go out to Saskatchewan to deliver $12.95 worth of food to some damn Canadians who'll give me $13.00 and tell me to 'keep the change'?". Ironically, as far as I know actual Canadians tip just fine, it's just that they're so innocuous that they got picked as a code word that the customers wouldn't pick up on (till I just spilled the beans, of course...).