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National Differences
- Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.
- Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when
abroad.
- Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.
- Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.
- Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.
- Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong
to your club.
- Americans: Believe that people should look out for and take care of
themselves.
- Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.
- Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.
- Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to
the point of blindness.
- Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be
bothered to sing them.
- Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform
the anthem.
- Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.
- Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels.
- Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.
- Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches,
to Britain, where everybody loves them.
- Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and
basketball.
- Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.
- Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey,
hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.
- Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in
every sport they play them in.
- Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".
- Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English".
- Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.
- Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything.
- Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an
island.
- Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an
island.
- Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor
in a backwards country.
- Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor
in a backwards country.
- Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
- Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
- Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
- Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
- Americans: Seem to think that poverty and failure are morally suspect.
- Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
- Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure
are inherited things.
- Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.
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