So you're out of the country. And you happen upon a singles outting or a bar. Not too long after arriving someone buys you a drink and begins to chat you up. They quickly realize you're not from around there and begin to insult your country, it's politics and anything else they can get their little minds to wrap around.

How do you, manage to get them to go away and leave you the heck alone without right out insulting them? I know the world view about Canadians is that we're polite and pushovers. But, I find it difficult to be nice when someone begins to belittle my home.

ask yourself,...if someone was insulting your family,..what would you do ?

It would generally depend on the person. Normally I would probably tell the ignorant person to f-off being that they don't know my family and only family is allowed to pick on family.

I didn't have to go that far to get that person to go away.

My ex hubby who was an american used to make fun of me being canadian and my country.

He was so ignorant about my country and used to make it sound like we all said "eh" and ate back bacon and drank beer and lived in igloos.

I know it shouldnt have bothered me because he was ignorant of other parts of the world but it did get to me!!!

I think I ripped his face off a few times!!!

Wow. What a dink.
The guy tried to get me drunk and then have a sports discussion. I'm not exactly into any sport. He told me that hockey (which he just assumed was our national sport) was a wussy game, and then insisted that the most "manly" sport out there was American football.

Apparantly I invented hockey!!!!

But for the most part.....most americans that I have met have been pleasantly surprized that I dont "sound" canadian!!!

What is it to "sound" like a Canadian? Are they talking about an accent that occurs in a particular area? I don't get it. I mean I can talk like a Newphie because I live in Fort McMurray ie: The second capital of Newfoundland. But I still fail to understand this. We have accents from all over, and so do they.

Small minded people live in all places and country when you associate a person with the politics of its country without knowing the person it just proves you only see your world and not others. It's like religion race or gender people associate to much before truly knowing a person. People have preconceive ideas and stay with them instead of just going with the flow get to know the person discover how they think. As for what to do in case of someone yelling at you because your Canadian well just ignore them if they are that stupid its better you know it right away let them bark they will get tired at one point no use trying to reason with them and any violence would only serve them, people need to learn how to agree to disagree without anger.

Well not everything in every country is perfect, and people do have to admit there are flaws even in their own, but if they could find nothing positive to say about it, I would be rather amused and curious about why they were here. Chances are they came her for the wrong reasons and are just expressing the anger they feel at themselves.

I'm open to critics but no insults definitely.
I can discuss but can also get MAAAD lol