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3:27am January 30, 2015

Why is it that, at least in the popular imagination…?

Australia has a big macho egotistical white dude public image.

The USA has a big macho egotistical white dude public image.

Those two images being slightly different in how they’re carried out, but still of the same general ilk.  (Cowboys being one iteration, but far from the only one.)

But then Canada, the other giant UK-derived colony, has a totally different public image?

I mean I know the macho male white guy thing exists in Canada, and in some parts more than others, but when you think Canada it’s not the first thing you think of, as a foreigner, and it is what a lot of people (both people born here and foreigners)  think of for the USA and Australia.

Notes:
  1. the-cat-who-walks-through-walls answered: I think it’s just because their only land border is with the US. The nly comparison Canada can quickly make is with a country with a macho eotistical white dude public image, they did not measure up to that, and that got simplified to “big & polite”
  2. withasmoothroundstone posted this