A few weekends ago, I went to dinner with a new Canadian friend (we'll call him Dan) who was "batching it" for the weekend while his wife (who we'll call Angie) was at a retreat. Knowing that Angie is American, and that Dan had attended graduate school in the US, I risked asking him a potentially sensitive question: what stereotypes of Americans he had found to be generally accurate--and annoying. He thought a bit and said, "I wish Americans knew more about Canada."Fair enough, I thought. And, hoping to be the beginning of the change he wanted, I asked him, "What do you wish Americans knew about Canada?" He paused for a long time, and finally said, "I don't know."
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