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[–] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Oh, I’m not Canadian, I was just going off of the parent comment.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Even worse, do Canadians think trailer park boys is funny

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