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Post by ellie on Oct 1, 2022 15:48:36 GMT
Nice but someone needs to explain to him that Ireland is not part of Britain. It’s kind of a big deal with us Irish! Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are Irish not British.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 1, 2022 16:54:33 GMT
Nice but someone needs to explain to him that Ireland is not part of Britain. It’s kind of a big deal with us Irish! Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are Irish not British. Most of the world doesn’t distinguish between those countries, though. Just like when I go to Italy, I’m coming from America. Most people don’t see Canada and the US being different.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2022 17:04:41 GMT
I’m not trying to justify him but I think he was being interviewed because he is the president of the 33e Festival du film britannique de Dinard and Banshees of Inisherin is one of the films in the selection so whoever selected it included it like a “britannique” film. I just checked the selection and Louis Wain is in the line up, too. It seems he mentioned great actors he watched in the films included in the festival bullesdeculture.com/dinard-festival-du-film-britannique-2022-programme-cinema/Also, it seems there is an exclusive Irish section.
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Post by ellie on Oct 1, 2022 17:46:32 GMT
Nice but someone needs to explain to him that Ireland is not part of Britain. It’s kind of a big deal with us Irish! Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell are Irish not British. Most of the world doesn’t distinguish between those countries, though. Just like when I go to Italy, I’m coming from America. Most people don’t see Canada and the US being different. Well then sorry to be blunt but I think most people should educate themselves! Thousands of Irish people fought and died over many centuries for their independence from British rule. It was a very bloody, bitter and hard won battle. So we don’t take kindly to people expecting us not to mind when they lazily refer to us as British. It’s really not a difficult thing to understand and learn. Must admit I have never met anyone who thought The USA and Canada were the same country.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 1, 2022 20:49:09 GMT
It’s not exactly that they think it’s the same country, but rather that it’s all “America”, which I guess it is - North America.
It’s interesting, though, that before we visited London, everyone who had been there told us to make sure to let people know we were Canadians and not Americans. We kind of dismissed it, because we figured nobody knew the difference. But boy, we’re we wrong! We saw lots of London faces light up when we told them we were from Canada!
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Post by ellie on Oct 1, 2022 21:24:00 GMT
It’s not exactly that they think it’s the same country, but rather that it’s all “America”, which I guess it is - North America. It’s interesting, though, that before we visited London, everyone who had been there told us to make sure to let people know we were Canadians and not Americans. We kind of dismissed it, because we figured nobody knew the difference. But boy, we’re we wrong! We saw lots of London faces light up when we told them we were from Canada! I think most European countries are better at knowing where other countries are than people from the USA. Don’t know about Canada. Maybe because Europe has so many different countries and languages and cultures and we all travel around it a lot that we’re better on geography. Perhaps it’s because the USA is so vast and not everyone there travels outside it that they can often be a bit vague on geography. I’ve had some bizarre experiences on that topic there. One person thought it took at least six hours to fly from Ireland to the UK while another didn’t realise there was a sea between Ireland and the UK. The most extreme was the one who didn’t know we spoke English in Ireland. 😂 In France you always get a better reception once they know you’re Irish and not British. Understandably they often can’t tell the difference between an Irish accent and a British one speaking English. But the minute they find out you’re Irish the atmosphere changes. Let’s just say the French and the British are not each other’s greatest fans and Brexit has not helped that situation. 😱
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 1, 2022 21:25:08 GMT
I think people tends to think there’s not big difference between USA citizens and Canadians. And they totally forget about French Canadians! Also Mexico is part of North America but people, especially Americans, think it’s a South American country.
The issue probably is that Americans call themselves Americans as if they were the only country in the whole continent! Or North Americans as if they were the only country in the region! I guess it’s kinda imperialist or, you know, the “Manifest destiny”.
So yeah, we, the other North Americans, also had our historical resentment with the so called Americans! 😉 They were convinced they were owners of everything and invaded us to stole half our country!
EDITED Agreed that Americans are very bad at their own geography! Apart of believing everything below their southern border is South America, I remember a lot of them were convinced western states like Montana are in the south!
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Post by roverpup on Oct 1, 2022 21:52:07 GMT
Another Canadian here. One of my biggest bugaboos is if anyone thinks I am someone from the US. Not that I have anything inherently against "Americans" but I do have great pride in my Canadian identity.
I have to admit recently I haven't I haven't heard it. I live on a border city and probably have a certain twang to my voice that I sometimes think it sounds American until I actually hear a Michigan accent!).
As I have travelled around to many countries most people, nowadays, can almost immediately distinguish Dan or myself as Canadian. And if anyone remotely suggested that there isn't much difference between Canadians and Americans I would be more than willing to educate them as to the distinction.
I think there is a distinct national Canadian character regardless of whether you are from Quebec or not. I think it is getting muddied by modern media bleed, but iI think it still is there in the most part.
I'm not making a definitive statement here - this is just a personal observation, nothing more.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 1, 2022 22:56:03 GMT
As soon as we saw and heard some American tourists in London, we identified ourselves as Canadian as quickly as possible! I remember an American couple telling our waiter that their dinner at the hotel (roast beef and Yorkshire pudding) was the only decent meal they’d had during their trip around Europe! The food was good, but the best in Europe? Yikes!
And I also remember our first trip to Italy, in the early 70s, when my mother was admiring somebody’s garden, and the owner of the house asked if we had flowers in Canada. Another woman told us that some relative of hers had moved to Australia, and she asked if it was anywhere near Canada. They had no idea where Canada was, which is probably why it was easier to tell people that we were from America.
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Post by queenzod on Oct 2, 2022 3:50:33 GMT
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