Why are Canadians nicer than Americans

Luralin·3/18/2018, 4:43:28 AM·6 votes·1,314 views

Is it the cold weather

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Kinkou Order3/18/2018, 5:05:22 AM16 votes

It is because they used sorcery and dark magic to move all of their meanness to their geese.

Toppien3/18/2018, 4:49:49 AM7 votes

maybe its because canadians dont tend to invade other countries by making war?

maybe because the are self-aware of being inmigrants, and not treating their country like its the whole continent?

idk, just crazy ideas of mine

o brigid o3/18/2018, 5:45:12 AM4 votes

Universal healthcare leads to healthier & happier people, I'm sure. Also the weed.

The Whamboozler3/18/2018, 7:35:44 PM3 votes

Obviously exposure to moose makes people nicer.

Reiizm3/18/2018, 12:02:06 PM3 votes

I think the real question is why are Americans so angry.

Hypochondria93/18/2018, 1:34:35 PM3 votes

Canada has plenty of assholes they just are mostly in Toronto and Edmonton.

Destaice3/18/2018, 5:37:57 AM2 votes

It's just a stereotype

ValyrianBlade3/18/2018, 7:01:56 PM2 votes

Depends on the province, and even the city.

Generally Canadians on the coasts are really nice. Especially the East coast. It's a little surprising because the average salary out there is the lowest in the country (however maybe the cost of living is lower there). They're all very generous, a solid community though. I have to think that the reason they're nice is because the population is lower. Not a dense population, so people know everyone better. Which means you're nicer to everyone in general. When someone is visiting or just you generally meet a new person, you're nice because that's how you've been with everyone you've ever known.

Now go to Ontario (where I live)? Toronto is a lot like most of the busier states (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc...) - worse if anything. People in service jobs in the states are REALLY nice to their customers. In Ontario the service staff are mostly neutral, which is amazing given how rude a lot of the customers treat them. I worked at a coffee shop while in highschool, and you wouldn't believe how rude customers can be (the whole "customer is always right" mentality, and especially the older ones feel like they can bully students).

Don't even get me started on Quebec. They're probably the worst of the lot. Now to be fair, my experiences with Quebec are limited mostly to Montreal, so the smaller cities in Quebec could be a LOT better (they probably are a lot more like the East coast). However Montreal is as bad as Toronto, except add on the "we speak French so we're better than you" attitude that a lot of Quebecois seem to have. Try speaking French with them, and they complain that your French isn't perfect (hello, your English isn't very good either, but I don't complain about that). Never in my life have I seen another group of people (including French people from France) that complain so much when someone tries to learn their language. My French is 10000x better than my Chinese, and yet when I tried speaking to some Chinese people in China they were all so impressed that I knew some Chinese and were very encouraging. Speak French to people in Quebec? They complain immediately and say they'll speak English instead.

My experiences in the states? People in general public aren't really nice, but almost everyone in their workplaces really are. Not just to customers too (I interned at a consulting firm in the states for 4 months and my workplace was really good). Now, there's a serious Jaywalking problem (at least in Chicago), but IDK if that really is about being nice.