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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCanadians Are Now More Anti-American Than At Any Time In The Past Forty Years
From The Globe and Mail:
It is not a subtle drift Canadians were overwhelmingly positive about the United States as recently as 2016, until Donald Trumps inauguration put a majority into the anti-American column. The proportion of Canadians who see the United States as a negative force in todays world is now almost 6 in 10, a 12-per-cent rise over 2008, making America by far the most negative country in the eyes of Canadians (even North Korea comes a distant second, at 46 per cent).
When asked what foreign countries are standing out as a positive force in todays world, Canadians answers swung sharply, between 2008 and 2018, away from the United States and Britain. The most positively viewed foreign country is now Germany 17 per cent of Canadians named it as positive, up from only 4 per cent in 2008. Sweden has risen to third place (one in eight Canadians identified it, double the 2008 level). Second-place Great Britain saw its popularity fall by 12 per cent; fourth-place United States by more than a quarter.
It is not a subtle drift Canadians were overwhelmingly positive about the United States as recently as 2016, until Donald Trumps inauguration put a majority into the anti-American column. The proportion of Canadians who see the United States as a negative force in todays world is now almost 6 in 10, a 12-per-cent rise over 2008, making America by far the most negative country in the eyes of Canadians (even North Korea comes a distant second, at 46 per cent).
When asked what foreign countries are standing out as a positive force in todays world, Canadians answers swung sharply, between 2008 and 2018, away from the United States and Britain. The most positively viewed foreign country is now Germany 17 per cent of Canadians named it as positive, up from only 4 per cent in 2008. Sweden has risen to third place (one in eight Canadians identified it, double the 2008 level). Second-place Great Britain saw its popularity fall by 12 per cent; fourth-place United States by more than a quarter.
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Canadians Are Now More Anti-American Than At Any Time In The Past Forty Years (Original Post)
Soph0571
May 2018
OP
Mostly we feel sorry for all the great Americans we know who have to go through
applegrove
May 2018
#8
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. I stand with Canadians.
I do not like US either!
JI7
(89,248 posts)2. so are many Americans themselves
heaven05
(18,124 posts)3. I'm not anti-american yet
just anti-racist american. This potus is not anything to me though, except a very dangerous individual. Along with sessions, ryan, mcconnell et al;
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)4. Also, the world is turning more Anti-American. The tRump regime sucks! n/t
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)5. Uh oh. I'm going to Canada later this week.
Hope they let me in.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)7. Better carry your Olive Branch as you go through customs.
Bucky
(53,998 posts)6. They got a lot more material to work with
Anyway, I expect it what's being passed off as anti-American is really just idealism coupled with disappointment, with the frustration channeled through humor
applegrove
(118,636 posts)8. Mostly we feel sorry for all the great Americans we know who have to go through
What they are going through.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)9. Being anti-Trump is not the same as being anti-American.
Cha
(297,184 posts)10. Well yeah.. but I don't think they're
anti-us.. just anti rigged in Russian perverted mole.. and his doormats.