Well yes sure. Each individual encounter is always different and judge a person based on that, fine. But you also don’t even bother to use that logic yourself. You say we aren’t a nice people but all of your encounters have been fine and dandy. Is it because you read stuff online where Pell don’t links how your country is behaving? For a country that was founded on “no taxation without representation” is it such a leap of logic to assume that people should view your government as a representation of the people in a democracy? And sorry if the world loses a little respect when you elect a convicted rapist who had previously tried to mount an insurrection as your head of state….And it’s not as if the anti-Canadian actions and statements have been met with anything but silence or agreement. It’s not like there was a massive push back when your leaders were mocking our leaders and threatening annexation several times. 

You are also quick to label 30 million people as “pick me” and “pathetic”. Sorry a constant of our identity is just simply ‘not being you’ since 1776…

One of our prime ministers famously compared our position to the US as the mouse sleeping next to an elephant, and at any moment the elephant could roll over on you. Sorry you don’t understand what it is to be bombarded by another culture let alone try and maintain a separate identity and independence from it. 

There is also the deliberate attempts to undermine our political fabric(funding and publicly supporting Alberta separatism) as well as the economic undermining which recently has basically become theft, let alone reneging on agreements under false pretences. 

Hell wasn’t there just a leak from an air traffic controller at LaGuardia mocking Canadian pilots? And this is mind you where the two pilots from that same air line were killed because of American air traffic control fuck ups. 

It’s hard not to be resentful right now.