Came to Canada over 24 years ago... called some Canadians "Americans" by mistake, they did not like it hehehehe

I've always answered "Fighting words" when someone asked if was American. (I live in Australia, and the assumption that my accent is American always irked me)

These days people who do ask where I am from do so by asking if I am Canadian, a sharp contrast to when I moved here over a decade ago. I guess some other Canadians have dropped the polite corrections and gone straight to growling.

We never liked it. In school every canadian geography class HAS to go through this :

Kid: "But miss, if America is the continent why are USA citizen called Americans?"

Teacher: "Because they're arrogant ego monsters that believe the world revolves around their asshole, Billy. "

The latter response was always the response.

Pity Mbin doesn't support commenting on Loops directl.

As a guy with a very heavy Ottawa Valley drawl, I often get mistaken for being American. The accent only gets heavier when I'm tired so you can imagine how it must be after a long international flight.