Canadians

[James Harbeck]

>"Canuck" (note again: it's a term of high prestige in Canada)

Sort of a Canadian equivalent of "Yankee," in fact. We have a hockey
team of the name.

The song from the _South Park_ movie ("Blame Canada!") is very
popular up here, because as far as we can see, it's common for
American politicians to do just that. After 9/11, people were saying
the hijackers came by way of Canada, when they didn't; after the big
blackout, the line in the US at first was that it was started in
Canada, when in fact it was caused in Ohio; and there are assorted
more recent cases.

And, lest I seem just like another anti-American Canadian, I should
say I'm a dual US/Canadian citizen with 300 years of American
ancestry.

James Harbeck.

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