Travel Blog

I recently met a man who told me that, some years ago, traveling in Tasmania, he was asked if he was Canadian. This surprised him - he was from Ohio - and he asked the man what made him think he was from Canada.

The Aussie explained that, when it came to English-speakers with North American accents, he always asked if they were Canadian first, even though the odds were greater that they were American. The reason, he said, was that Canadians get offended if mistaken for Americans, while Americans are never offended when mistaken for Canadians.