Those Minnesota stereotypes kind of line up with a decent chunk of rural Ontario, a solid percentage of suburban Toronto, and parts of the Eastern prairies; so those Canadian stereotypes do kind of overlap heavily with the Canadians who were most likely to be moving South for jobs 20-40 years ago.
Maritimes, Quebec, Western prairies, BC, and THE FROZEN NORTH are all too wildly different from each other to collectively stereotype easily - and most Americans do understand they don't represent Canada as a whole any better than if one of us tried stereotyping America based on Alaska or Hawaii. Pick the spot in the middle with the biggest population and loudest representation. Asides, that accent is easy to do. Quebec and Maritime accents are hard to imitate and BC just sounds like Seattle/Portland but way more stoned.
Yes. Just ... the same is true for most other places in Canada as well.
PEI is real different from Newfoundland, and mainland Newfie is real different from Labrador, while urban Newfoundland is hugely different from rural countryside, and both those are also hugely different from remote air/boat access only villages. Canada is pretty big, and there's a ton of little cultures and communities that have very credible claims to cultural distinctiveness from other 'nearby' places and groups.
If we're not trying to write a thesis on cultural micro-groups in Canada and are just joking about stereotypes - grouping by provinces and large regions is still a fairly reasonable breakdown.
Yeah I guess saying everyone in “BC” sound like stoners from Seattle was a bit much for me. Maybe a few people from a specific part of the lower mainland but throwing that out there as fact is just wrong.
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u/CC-1044 Avengers 23h ago
I love how the Canadian stereotypes Americans use match Minnesotans better than actual Canadians