aba1 said:
So its not that whats going on in the media is all together negative its that the only perception alot of people have is only just that the little jokes and stereotypes that get thrown around about us and I get the impression it leads to dislike and wrongful impressions whether people relize it out right or not.
Someone else in this thread mentioned South Park, and I'm going to use those to frame what I'm talking about.
South Park the movie, despite the popular "Blame Canada" song, was really not anti-canadian, if anything it was about how parents have a tendency to overreact and fail to take responsibility. In the show and the movie, with the exception of maybe Chef, the children are always more intelligent and mature than the adults. However the whole joke/undertones went over some people's heads and they heard the words but not the message, so we get a bunch of ignorant people... half protesting on behalf of Canada, the other half deciding "what has Canada ever done for us!" because they're fools who are unable to grasp that goings on in the world effect them as much as what happens in their own immediate surroundings. These are of course the same small handful of people who unironically adopted "America! F**k YEAH!" as though that movie wasn't a criticism of just about everyone in the US of pretty much any political affiliation.