How in the Nine Circles does anyone generalize from that?
Possibly from the actions of Americans generalised from the archetype of the hegemonic American monoculture? Americans who don't admit (or understand) that it exists are sitting in a big messy glob of American privilege.
Hell, everyone else generalises about Canadians, and we're individually weirder than Americans by just about any statistical measure you care to name: more languages spoken, higher proportion of recent immigrants to native-born citizens, more political parties, more time zones, more different types of climate... About the only place where you beat us along those lines is that you have far more regional accents than we do, which is a phenomenon that has been troubling and puzzling linguists for years...
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Possibly from the actions of Americans generalised from the archetype of the hegemonic American monoculture? Americans who don't admit (or understand) that it exists are sitting in a big messy glob of American privilege.
Hell, everyone else generalises about Canadians, and we're individually weirder than Americans by just about any statistical measure you care to name: more languages spoken, higher proportion of recent immigrants to native-born citizens, more political parties, more time zones, more different types of climate... About the only place where you beat us along those lines is that you have far more regional accents than we do, which is a phenomenon that has been troubling and puzzling linguists for years...