TRUTH or MYTH: Canadians React to Stereotypes
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Canadians are extremely polite, love hockey and live in the middle of nowhere in the freezing cold. We got Canadians from all over Canada (Quebec to Newfoundland) to share their thoughts on these most popular stereotypes and rank them true or false. Let's go!
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0:00 Intro
0:11 Canadians are extremely polite
1:12 Canadians live in the middle of nowhere and men are lumberjacks
2:18 Canadians say "eh" "oot" and "aboot"
3:01 Canada is freezing cold all the time
4:12 Canadians love hockey and know how to play it well
5:22 Canadians eat poutine and drink maple syrup
6:27 Most annoying stereotype
7:21 What should people know about Canadians
8:08 Ending
CREW:
Marina Iakovleva (directing/assembly)
Jason Tojeiro (video/editing)
/ jay_film
CAST:
Crystal (Ontario): / msferrier
Mikael (Ontario): / mikaelmmelo
Amber (Quebec): / ambertinaa
Jason (Quebec): / jaysoune
Jeewan (BC): / jgillcomedy
Brittany (Alberta): / brittanylobo_
Ryan (Newfoundland): / theryandillon
Joseph (Saskatchewan): / josephswhittle
Osawa (Saskatchewan): / osawamuskwa
Maddox (New Brunswick): -
Karen (Northwest Territories): / karen_okay
Filmed in:
Toronto, Canada 
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Happy Thursday you guys! Honestly, I make videos about the world and have never considered to make one about Canada thinking it might be too "nice" of a video 😂But it actually turned out one of my favourite TRUTH or MYTH's. Stay tuned what "What Canadians Really Think About Each Other." 🇨🇦What is one stereotype that either got crushed or confirmed in the video? Tell me below.
Can you please make a video about Perù? I don't find enough videos about it but I'm really interested in their culture!!
Why noone from Vancouver??
Jeewan is from British Columbia which is the province where Vancouver is
Seriously? The Canadian cobra chicken aka Canada goose is the biggest jerk!! 😂😂🍁
"We can commit crime too" 😂😂 this is so true. When people out of canada ask me if there are gangs or hoods in Canada. Like yeah crime is international.
😂😂😂
They might apologize after robbing you ehh
So true. Take a look at the Canadian Real Estate Market. That's an example of international and domestic crime.
@@joeraptor1 Have you guys even heard of WInnipeg? lol
@@july9566 Lol
POV: You're actually a Canadian and you wanted to see what your stereotypes are
eyy thats me!
Yea. EH
Yea definitely for sure 🙌 lol
Yep
@@user-ik9px4nh6g same
"We're not that nice, it's just that we live next to assholes." Really that's just 💀💀💀
Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989
Yeah, that actually pissed me off.
@@thatguyonline5208 Canadians are nice, not stupid and dishonest
@@cqtaylor but it’s true tho so live it down😂
@@muntyal-bazaz2663 I've been to Canada, and at least a dozen other countries. I've seen nicer people than Canadians. And more authentic.
The Saskatchewan guys are so funny and likable, they make me wanna move there and hang out 😂 🇨🇦
U should move there they need more people like u over there.
Hey thank you lol
Yes, top charisma in Skatch
hang oot
As a Canadian, I was very shocked moving to America and finding out pancake syrup was not maple syrup😬
I’m confused. I’m from Northern Virginia and we just call it ‘maple syrup’. My father is from the south and he labels it ‘maple syrup’. My gram is from Pennsylvania and calls it maple syrup. And my gramps is from Queens, NY and he calls it Maple Syrup. I’ve never seen an American label it “pancake syrup”. I may just be misunderstanding your statement though.
@@sophiaspaulding3310 maple syrup is different than pancake syrup. I thought the syrup they put in pancakes like in ihop, Denny's or even in the supermarket was maple syrup. Example, aunt Jemima syrup is not maple syrup. I didn't know that. I just assumed everybody used maple syrup. I hope that cleared up any misunderstandings.
“Pancake” syrup is typically “flavored” corn syrup!! 😩🌽!😱”They” think Americans prefer it thick… pure, amazing maple syrup is not and has an incomparable delicate and 100% unique flavor….❤️🍁💖🤗
@@xtelfolaj hmm I was not aware that was even a thing lmao. I usually just buy maple syrup. Thx for the new info!
@@gigi4713 I actually wasn’t even aware that was a thing 😳😳😳. I just buy the bottle that says “maple syrup”
Even to this day, I still can't tell an American accent from a Canadian one
There's very little difference. You basically have to take the extremes (southern American vs Vancouver ie JJ McCullough) to hear any difference
@@tomrogue13 Exactly. I've lived in Calgary for pretty much my whole life and like you said, for the most part we speak with a standard North American accent, like what you might hear on the news or in most TV shows. I feel like the "Canadian" accent that people often point out usually comes from people who live in less populated areas, older generations, or from families with a long history in Canada. And of course, there are regional accents, like in Newfoundland for example.
Wait till you hear Na Newfie accent. Lived in Ontario for 20+ years and i find them confusing as fuck to understand.
An easy way to differentiate is how they pronounce certain words. Canadians (not all, but most I've heard) use the British pronunciation of certain words. For example, words like process and project. Americans pronounce it praw-cess and praw-ject, whereas Canadians pronounce them the British way, pro-cess/pro-ject. Other words that Canadians often pronounce the British way are against (a-GAINst), whereas Americans pronounce it aGENst. Pasta...Americans pronounce it pah-sta whereas Canadians often pronounce it pass-ta. A couple more obvious ones are how they pronounce their o's, so many Canadians pronounce sorry as "so-rry", about "a-boat", etc. There are many other examples, but as others have stated, it differs depending on the region.
I’m American from California and I can’t tell the difference either.
4:02 that's exactly how I pictured Canadian discussions, lol
The permanent winter stereotype is annoying. Especially during a 40C + heatwave in Quebec. We get from 40 to -40 in the same year lol
Another annoying one is that we all live in igloos. Mmm nope, we would all become homeless during a normal heatwave in the middle of an average summer lol
Idk if this is just me or not but I heard loads of Canadians always saying 'for sure.'
Oh yeah no for sure 👌🏻
No yeah no for sure!
I say for sure a lot so i guess I can't say no
yeah for sure, i say that a lot for sure
Yeah, we do say that a lot. For sure!
Russians should invent Thrudeau dish and eat it everyday with vodka! As a revenge )))
Ashton Kutcher was in Port Huron (Michigan. Canada side is Sarnia) and he said the people there were the nicest ever. I joked it's Politeness Pollution from Canada
As a Canadian, I felt that I and the people in my area would not relate to most of their answers. But I guess that shows that we truly are a diverse country!
everything!
Get some nova scotians and you will get some very different answers
When you talk with Canadian,
"Eh" never missed out of conversation and that is TRUE!!!! 😁😅
Loved seeing a video about this awesome country that has been my home since I was a baby 🇨🇦🍁🙌 Love to our neighbours to the south 🇺🇸 as well as everyone else who sees this comment 🌍❤️ Come visit Canada, you won't regret it 😊
thanks for the love bud
Haha.. Italy does exactly the same thing with Neapolitan food and Sicilian desserts than Canada did with Poutine.. Poorer people from South are just from South, but their food is magically Italian ;)
I am from Ontario. I loved the Saskatchewan guys hahah
Lol thank you
One of the stereotypes at least here in BC is that the reason why stores close so early and people are in bed early is because they hit the Grouse at 7 AM. That we all hike and we hit the outdoors here and it's not hard to see why.
(Also BC means Bring Cash is another stereotype we hear here from Canadians coming over here)
I grew up in Whatcom, "Bring Cash" is accurate, as if Bellingham isn't overpriced as it is. Every local knows to top off the tank in Blaine as well , Petro Can gas pumps not only take credit cards, there is also a slot to insert the deed to your house.
im from Abbotsford BC. and yeah ive heard bring cash too
This is one of the sweetest videos! I have to go back to Canada and say hello. :)
6:30 is the Quebec experience
- Canada: We're nice and better than America
- Also Canada: OH, A QUEBECER?! LETS BE SUPER BIGOTS!!! ITS OKAY
(on a side note, just last week a deranged woman told my sister "SpEak WhITe!!!" because she spoke French... in Quebec (in an English part of Montreal).
Also, lookup on RUclips for the excellent poem "Speak White" by Michele Lalonde
And when he said the woman he met said "Quebec people are dumb for not speaking English," that's hilarious because many people form Quebec do speak English/bilingual and most English Canadians only speak English, so they're basically saying they are dumb themselves.
I went in Alberta when I was young and only spoke French then. I asked the lady where the TOILETS were. She answered "Sorry, I don't speak FROG!". I feel that.
"I mean, most of my pancake is maple syrup but I do need the pancake for the excuse." Literally the most Canadian thing besides boiling maple syrup and pouring it on snow to make maple taffy
Mmmmmmm maple taffy. I love spring time just for that.
or pissing in the snow to make lemon ice . . . for your friends! LOL
@@inconnu4961 omfg lol soooo true lol
- How did your great-great grandpa die?
- Well, he had to get to the store
i died 🤣
I am from Ontario but after watching this video I feel like Quebec is where my soul is 🙂
I love how Americans never talk about Canadians but Canadians always talk about Americans. 😂😂😂
how so? i bet 90% of these stereotypes are from Americans, talking about canada......
@@MikeTythonLLC nah
I've never heard a single Canadian say "oot" or "aboot"; that's an American joke. It is based on something though, since many Canadians do have a specific pronunciation of the "ou" sound. In linguistics it even has a name: Canadian raising (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_raising)
It's not unique to Canada, some dialects across the border also have it, but it's pretty widespread in Canada.
It's more of a "oat" as in "boat." It's common here in the Maritimes. But when spoken fast, it can sound like "oot."
@@thecaynuck4694 I guess it depends on where it is spoken as well. Here in Ontario, I have never heard anyone pronounce anything differently that what is considered the "standard" American accent.
@@samraosmanovska4077 yeah in other places in canada the accent is a bit thicker, my cousin moved to alberta for 8 years once and the first time he came back he had a way different accent then he lost it over time living here.
I think they got told to say this because Canada is not cold all the time, earlier this year it was 38-40 Celsius which I think is a bit over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
This video is very interesting and funny
4:02 that was the perfect summary to this video 😂😂😂😂
It’s funny how Canadians, especially on the Internet, try to act like they’re so different than Americans, but if this video is accurate then Canadians are just more high-pitched, nasally, and mellow Americans. Lol.
we are really different from Americans in a lot of way we think.. Maybe a bit similar to Californian and New england people.
Canadians and Americans are more similar to each other than any other nation, we even have some shared history. BUT, we also are two UNIQUE countries, with some very unique differences in certain key areas like health care, gun control, military and so on … we are similar but not identical… just as Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes, have many similarities and also some key differences… No one country or nation is ever a monolith.
exactly, Canadians and Americans are identical to me most of the time, as much as it gives them cringes.
@@katebergart You just listed government policies, not personality traits. 😂 What?
@@JohnSmith-yf5bk Since when does personality have to do with the nationality? Of course it's the politics, society etc. that shape the way people are and their values. Other than that everyone is an individual.
I visited Canada 3,4 times and I don’t think the people are overly nice, they are just like every other place in my opinion…
The stereotype about Canadians being polite and nice usually only extends to other white people from USA, Western Europe, Australia from my experience.
@@Khmerwarrior200 💯 true!
As a Canadian, I agree. We're more polite than most other countries, but not necessarily friendlier.
@@Khmerwarrior200 Perhaps, but I'm sure that brown people treat other brown people nicer than they do white people.
everyone on this one is hilarious… I honestly thought some of them do stand up (maybe they do) love the provincial diversity and hearing the differences province to province.. really goes to show just how big the country is and how different we can be yet all say sorry 😂… much love from Toronto!
“We live next to a&$hole”! 👍👍👍😂😂😂
I wonder when Canadians say that Americans are rude...which states they are talking about because we are all very different from Alaska to New York To California to Georgia...we are all very different. It seems a bit short sighted to say we are ALL assholes or rude.
What is different in Georgia ?
@@afonsofrancis6545 different about ga compared to Alaska or New York or California??... If you don't know that... Id suggest you visit those places. They are as similar as Montreal is to Vancouver. Lol. Not at all. The point is to not loop everyone into this monocultural idea. Canadians differ from province to province and city to city... The same is for the states. Thats all I can tell u right now... You would have to do your own research from this point. I can't speak for everyone.
@@thenard9027 i'm not form usa i just ask because i'm curious, I thought there was something very different about Georgia, I don't intend to visit any of them actually
@@afonsofrancis6545 its very hard at times to get to know a place or people if you never visit. Its an awesome experience. I understand u dont have any intentions to ever visit but I encourage you to do it if you have the chance. 😎
particularly i hate the superficiality of the west coast more so the Hollywood west coast then the northern west coast, the southern states with a lot of racism and more so conservative views like abortion rights laws and heavy religious god loving Americans that seem more racist then god loving and hyper patriots that talk down other countries to let you know america is better. But most Canadians hate the Americans we see on the news which is a poor representation of every American and we are aware that we only see and know what what the media shows which tends to be the bad apples.
Canada is weird. It's like the US.. sort of.. the people look like us.. they sound like us. sort of. But they're not us. And never have been. They're like the Americans time forgot.
I think here more provinces and cities got named than in any other video of this kind before. 🤣
Finally! I was about to send a strongly worded letter to you about why this video wasn't out yet.
y'all are supposed to wear the Canadian pin so you don't get confused with an American if some ish is about to go down. Never heard a bad word about a Canadian ever it always they are so nice, [EDIT] spelling
vladimir poutin: we are canadians (sounds URSS national anthem)
The Quebec duo's answers just made me scream sometimes! XD XD
They're great
I work with a lot of Canadians. Great work everyone!
Amazing. High praise
I live right below Canada and seen lots of Canada talk about how better they are then america coming from people who Canadan moved to USA from Canada
Before i have never heard any Canadian say eh. But when i was schooling in UofA, I'm from Toronto. I was talking to my roommate, who is also from Toronto and I noticed she started saying eh in our 3rd year. I told her, you have integrated to well in Edmonton.
omg the last guy from Quebec was hilarious poutine is Canadian lmao i just died eh
Feliz Jueves Marina! Saludos desde Florida
In southern Ontario we have less than four months of cold snowy weather. It is always a green Christmas now and the bad weather starts in January. By March it rarely snows and the temperature hovers around 32 F.
As a boomer I can tell you when I was a kid nobody knew about poutine. The fast food industry real took off in the 70's. We almost always had home cooked food.
And that is why it is a great idea to bundle up before heading out to the bus stop during winter. Your exposed ears will get frost bite in 5 minutes of -20°C weather.
In the summer, Winnipeg is swarmed by mosquitos. Don't forget to put on some bug spray and sunscreen.
People should adding Maple Syrup to Hot Chocolate and Pancakes. It is SO GOOD!! 😋
Has anyone tried making BBQ sauce out of Maple Syrup? We could try it on all sorts of dishes. 😋
Well they just blew the stereotype of being nice out of the water by ragging on the US in every question, lol.
They say Canadians are nice until asked about how do you feel about Americans 😂
@@Jacobgagnon100 hehhaheh
Not every question.
I noticed that too, the guy who was talking about Americans making fun of Canadian healthcare saying "yeah, we're better than you."
Like damn, they seem to have an inferiority complex when it comes to the U.S., NONE of the questions even brought us up but they just have to get digs in at us.
That's a Canadian thang!
I drove through Saskatchewan on my way to Calgary. I swear, it felt like my car was on a treadmill in the middle of an unedited world. The people were cool though.
I love how all of them subtly trash each other.
Now I want to drink a few beers with Osawa. :-D
And why the hell didn't I know about Poutin? That sounds tasty as hell! XD
I think it's fair to say people from the US have this stereotype of Canadians being nice, not people from all over the world
Try e Canadian accent is so easy to spot. The company I work for has quite a few Canadians that work here and I was able to tell who they all were by their accent.
Fucking cool people. I really like Canadians 🇨🇦
Where you from?
@@CONSTANTINEXI63 Probably Toronto, lol.
@@Albertarocks yeah, a lot of people are from Toronto
more videos about Canada please!
Met a Canadian guy once at university.
At one point we just stood by an open door for a good ten minutes, each of us offering the other to go first.
It was like who could be more polite? The Brit or the Canadian fellow
who won?
Good job guys😁🇨🇦
Nickelback, The Straight Pipes, and Alphonso Davies. When I was reminded about Canada, that's the guy
Lol i moved to Winnipeg from northern MB, the winters here are short and mild. Don't let the Winterpeg nickname fool you into believing it's cold af here lol
I can easily wear out just a dress, nylons, and hoodie in the winter here and be fine.
Lol no one is freezing to death at the bus stops waiting for the buses...
my big annoyance with ontario stereotypes is that people immediately think you're from the gta if you say you're from ontario. ontario is a HUGE province. it's over 1 million square km, and while a lot of that is uninhabitable in the north, there's still a lot that still is. when i lived in bc i used to tell people that the distance from my hometown to toronto is about the same distance as my hometown to bc and it blew their minds.
Hey! I would love to see u do one on Pacific Islanders. Much love! 💕
Thank you for this lmao there are so many weird stereotypes for us also I find we don’t apologize out of like guilt we apologize out of empathy also I’m not saying that there are big stereotypes just for Canada I’m sure we make stereotypes for other countries too not knowing 🇨🇦
we are too used to living in the cold tho like summer already over and its only canada day lol
The Québécois who were pressed at the girl for saying “pouteen” is me every single time Americans say that... I feel him it’s hard being Canadian😩
Man you didn’t watch the end of the video. It’s hard being québécois with Canadians claiming our food and than YOU guys can’t pronounce the name even if your life depended on it
Honestly, seeing a fellow Albertan in this video makes me happy that I live here :)
As an expat Canadian, I will say that the biggest myth is "free" healthcare. Tax freedom day in Canada in around mid June. Almost half of your income goes to taxes. So yeah you are paying for healthcare.
Canadians have extremely high speaking voices?
It's the cold air. ;-)
The Saskatchewan guys are fun to watch!
Lol hey thanks 🙂
hilarious, From Winnipeg here and I appreciate they didn't use anyone from here on the panel 🤪
I agree 100% with my fellow Saskatchewans
Have only been to BC and Alberta - as a tourist from Europe -. Most friendly people I have ever met.
And love the landscape there, too.
I was just about to comment about how nice canadians are but I figured they already know…
There are two types of Canadian, the quebecois et des Canadienne. Hahaha
It's hilarious, every Canadian I've ever seen vehemently denies "oot and aboot" but that really is what their accent makes it sound like when they say those words. It's subtle, and not so over-the-top as the spelling implies (maybe more like oat and aboat), but that is the #1 single biggest way to identify a Canadian - their accent on words with the 'ou' sound. Also like someone else said, they will use the british pronunciations and spellings of certain words while speaking in what mostly sounds like a broadly American midwestern accent.
I can agree with that, I used to play with these American kids online on my PS4, pretty American kids coming from a state like Ohio, anyways they were pretty cool but they would always ask me questions about Canada and even said that I had an accent a couple times, I didn’t really notice it but when I really focused on it I did realize some of the words I said had an accent. Ooot and aboot just doesn’t happen but I can see that we are pretty hard on the “ou” sound.
@@Thedreamer20015 like I said, I think "oot and aboot" is a little bit of an overstatement; I really think "oat and aboat" captures the sound better, it's not quite as exaggerated as the former implies. You really do have to listen pretty close to tell a Canadian from a midwestern American but the difference is there and is noticeable to those who aren't Canadian, but of course it's hard for y'all to notice it - it's your everyday speech after all, it just sounds normal to you! I enjoy all these regional dialect and accent differences, it really adds a lot of character in my opinion. Cheers
@@CrowDawg11 agreed!
You're actually quite correct. It's more of a "oat" as in "boat." It's common here in the Maritimes. But when spoken fast, it can sound like "oot."
I've found it's more like "oat" and "aboat" not the "oot" sounds a lot of people seem to think
As a Canadian, I can confirm that we are extremely polite.
Oh, I like that there are 2 people from Québec although I'd like if they got their own video.
You should also talk about southern Ontario. Our summers get to 30 c
Quebec guy is so nice he passive aggressively trashes the rest of Canada every chance he gets 😅😂 I’m from Alberta lol 😂
As a Quebec native, if you live in Montréal and Quebec city best believe gotta speak francais(french) cause there some rude quebecois who hates English and in Canada's day July 1st it is Quebec moving day means packing your stuff found you another house and apartment.
P.S: alot of us French Canadians can speak English too in Montréal. Unless you're are Habs fan 🏒
Oh I love Canada and would love to one day visit 🏴❤️🇨🇦
5:39 im from TO and when i moved to MTL this was the reaction i got lmaoooo now im torn and say it both ways
"I've never had a problem at a Tim Hortons"
Me: Really, I find that hard to believe :/ *thinks about all the unique people*
And that's a problem? Because people are unique?
The guy from NB makes me proud to be from NB. He's so sweet!
We definitely don't say oot and aboot but we do say t'boot as in "in addition to that". At least in Ontario if we're complaining about a series of things and then we have that last clincher we'll say then blah blah blah t'boot. It's used like a sarcastic "icing on the cake". I think Americans have heard us say this and misunderstand the meaning of the term.
Bigfoot Sasquatch is REAL!
Vancooouver!! Where're you?
hi
@@Freeeeeeeee27 I wanted someone from Vancouver!
@@_tot_ pretty sure there was a guy from Vancouver (or maybe it just said BC) either way, I do feel like we’ve been misrepresented.
Hitting Stanley Park!
This was a nice way to get a sense of Canada lol I don’t know much about it but I want to learn more, even the small discrepancies like accents and whatnot 😃 I really want to visit Canada one day ❤️
You definitely should! Make sure you get your passport beforehand. I'm not sure if one NEEDs it to enter Canada, but you surely will NEED it to return to the States!
Living in Canada is like living on top of a meth lab in the basement.
Saskatchewan people are so chill and funny.
As someone from Saskatchewan I can indeed confirm that we are very boring people
Hilarious! Funny cos it’s true
hMMM i need more information about Quebec now
No, we are not just Americans, we’re just cousins, live in Canada and you’ll see what we mean
American here. Personally, I've never heard any actually Canadian say 'aboot', but I have heard a few (mainly from the more western parts of the country) say 'aboat' lol
hahahahaha i never realized this.... yes. Americans say "abowt" and we say "aboat". This is way more accurate
Geez! Jeewan sure blows the 'polite' stereotype. What a loudmouth............ Rest of them were pretty nice.
Yea he sucks
he actually fits a lot of stereotypes we have for indian guys in canada tbh
Very factual point though, as a quebecois, it gets me OOFED when people say poutine by pronouncing a sharp T
I love Canada now I learned about the country a little bit more.
i work for a call center for canada and damn THEY ARE SO NICE compared to americans
Thats true where I work as well.
love Canadians xx
doesnt greenland beat space per person??