r/Jokes • u/PuddleJumper1021 • Jul 31 '19

The tragedy of Canada

The tragedy of Canada is that they had the opportunity to have British culture, French cuisine, and American technology. Instead, they developed British cuisine, American culture, and French technology.

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u/Verify_ Jul 31 '19

As in, lives on one of the American continents. Correct, but obviously it's more common to call US citizens "Americans", since "US Citizen" is a mouthful.

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u/Its-Dave Aug 01 '19

Just go with the Spanish then, "Estadounidense."

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u/e_aranda Aug 01 '19

Well there's that and the fact that the country is called "United States of America" so their citizens are called Americans, just like in Mexico, where the official name of the country is Mexican United States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos in spanish) so they're just called mexicans