This is a Canadian thing, Quebequois are stereotyped as being incredibly rude and entitled as a general rule, and are constantly trying to force the rest of Canada to adopt their heritage/culture. The dislike of quebequois outside of Quebec kind of merged with Quebec’s hatred of French (for not being French enough) and now all of Canada enjoys a good “French are terrible people” meme.
I’ve only visited Montreal twice, but both times everyone was super nice. (My baseline is NYC)
I think some people band wagon jumped onto the Simpsons bit about cheese eating surrender monkeys, and some Republicans followed their crowd during the bush era.
For most people I just read it as a “look at me I’m part of the in-group” sad pandering, like when people would repeat “EPIC BACON” or other low grade memes. They just want to feel like part of the group.
Canadians think it’s funny because of that; Americans because of W-era anti-French sentiment combined with antielitism and a historical association of French products with luxury; Germans and English people (at least, very possibly more of Europe) think it’s funny because of their countries’ constant historical antagonism; and people in former colonies think it’s funny because fuck the fr*nch.
Obviously not all of them, but I think it just hits for a lot of people.
This is a Canadian thing, Quebequois are stereotyped as being incredibly rude and entitled as a general rule, and are constantly trying to force the rest of Canada to adopt their heritage/culture. The dislike of quebequois outside of Quebec kind of merged with Quebec’s hatred of French (for not being French enough) and now all of Canada enjoys a good “French are terrible people” meme.
I’ve only visited Montreal twice, but both times everyone was super nice. (My baseline is NYC)
I think some people band wagon jumped onto the Simpsons bit about cheese eating surrender monkeys, and some Republicans followed their crowd during the bush era.
For most people I just read it as a “look at me I’m part of the in-group” sad pandering, like when people would repeat “EPIC BACON” or other low grade memes. They just want to feel like part of the group.
Canadians think it’s funny because of that; Americans because of W-era anti-French sentiment combined with antielitism and a historical association of French products with luxury; Germans and English people (at least, very possibly more of Europe) think it’s funny because of their countries’ constant historical antagonism; and people in former colonies think it’s funny because fuck the fr*nch.
Obviously not all of them, but I think it just hits for a lot of people.
Do Canadians think Letterkenny is funny? I checked out from them at some point but I liked it for a long time. Never watched any spinoffs
Oh, I’m not Canadian, I was just going off of the parent comment.
Even worse, do Canadians think trailer park boys is funny
From a Canadian sitting around a fire with 6 other Canadians - Yes to both.
Well that’s good, y’all got great comedies up there