Fill it out if you're American*
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Ask people where they are from. The Swede will say Sweden, the Iranian will say Iran and the American will say Texas.
Americans in the Netherlands will say Canada. Caught a few different groups doing while I was there.
Sir, it's very clear you've got that Southern US twang, we don't speak like that. "They treat us so much better when we say Canada". How about you don't do that and just be polite.
I was going to do that until our gov started being shitty to Canadians. Now I don't want to pretend to be Canadian because I feel so bad about what the US done.
I'm pretty sure any reasonable person will understand it when you say something like "I'm one of the polite and quiet Americans".
I have several American friend. One of them was 100% certain he didn't sounds American so I called it out a few times and he finally agreed.
I've also been ~10km across the boarder at a hotel. The bar staff called me out as a Canadian within 5 min. "It's the way you say 'house'". I got them to say it, I said it, sounds EXACTLY the same to me but they said they're certain.
Point being, people can tell you're lying most of the time so it's really not worth it.
I can't 100% id Canadians, but I can usually narrow somebody to Canada, Minnesota, or Wisconsin. Those blur together to my ear. In fact some US accent maps even call MN and WI as Canadian Accent. I don't even get that perfect all the time. Some southern Ontario peeps sound like US midwesterners to me, what that linked map calls "Northern Cities Accent".
Anyway, Canadians can write your reps about Bill C-34 instead.
Thanks, just contacted my reps
Thank you. Just messaged both of my representatives. This did make it a lot easier.
I advocate an intelligence check, at least avoid that some politicians can go online.