true, in as much as most Americans are rioting enemies of democracy who want to hang their elected officials.
Yes, but we embrace this. Nobody thinks Americans are the "nicest people in the world" - not even Americans.
if what you claim is true, it would be the only thing americans agree on about themselves... making me think your claim is false. but makes for a great made-up talking point!
i'm pretty confident there are plenty of midwestern'ish, church-going, donation-giving, U-S-A-U-S-A-chanting americans who legitimately think they are the nicest people in the world.
Canadians on the other hand with their stupid flag patch on ALL of their backpacks brazenly advertising "You have nothing to fear here, I'm Canadian and the nicest person on the planet." Turns out, no.
this is what is called a "you problem". if that's where your mind goes when you see when you see a maple leaf on a back-pack, then there isn't much i can do to help you - other than to assure you that is NOT why canadians put their flag on their back-packs. it's not to project superiority, signal virtue, etc... no, the reason is much simpler: it's done* to let locals know we're not americans. given the linguistic and cultural similarities between canada and the US, one can't blame locals for telling travelling north americans apart.
* edit: that's why it
was done... last few times i was back-packing overseas (admittedly over a decade ago), a person with a canadian flag on their back-pack was slightly more likely to be american than canadian. why? because they didn't want locals to think they were american - probably because americans aren't the only ones who don't think that americans aren't the nicest people in the world... thanks for ruining that for us.
