“Sorry, We Are Sorry”: 35 Hilarious Accurate Memes That Sum Up The Country Perfectly (New Pics)
Canada is the second largest country in the world but it's very sparsely populated. Over 80% of locals live in cities and more than two-thirds are settled within about 60 miles (100 kilometers) of the southern border.
Canada is officially bilingual in English and French, which reflects its history as the place was once contested by two of Europe's great powers. Canadians also have one of the highest standards of living in the world!
Visiting the land of maple syrup is on many people's bucket list, so we decided to see what the fuss is all about and visit it through the Facebook page 'Funny Canadian Memes.' Judging from the comments under its content, this should be not only an accurate but also a humorous and delightful way to explore the country's culture and share some laughs along the way.
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Canada shares a 5,525-mile- (8,890-km-) long border with the United States (including Alaska), and it is the longest border in the world not patrolled by military forces.
Although Canada shares many similarities with its southern neighbor—and, indeed, its popular culture and that of the United States are in many regards very similar—the differences between the two, both temperamental and material, are profound.
I hold the end of the inner sleeve with the hand I'm pulling through, as I pull it through, never have a problem with this living nightmare anymore.
For example, according to the 20th-century literary critic Northrop Frye, the central fact of Canadian history is the rejection of the American Revolution.
Generally speaking, modern Canadians are inclined to favor orderly central government and a sense of community over individualism, and in international affairs, they are more likely to serve the role of a peacemaker instead of a warrior.
Whether at home or abroad, they are likely to have a pluralistic way of viewing the world.
Not many Picts left in Scotland either. Nor Neanderthals in Germany for that matter.
Load More Replies...Can we all agree that, basically, all colonizing societies around the globe have been total d-bags to the indigenous peoples that were there first?
lmao we we waged a war against our national bird... and lost.
Load More Replies...Argentinians (white settlers from Europe, mostly Germany and Italy) killed most of the indigenous people. Settlers from Britain persecuted Maoris until they signed a peace treaty.
We have to own this - our country failed miserably with the First Nations.
Oh goodness, we are more aware and at least starting to attempt to make changes. There are parts of Europe that need to examine their history with indigenous people, as well. Can't change anything until acknowledge what happened and the impacts (we definitely are not fully there yet)
Or more accurately, their attitudes to ward the indigenous people of their former colonies. The racism against those very people when they immigrate, refugee, or seek asylum in their former colonizers’ countries is sickening. They try to act all superior, but are no better, and in some ways are much worse, than the US.
Load More Replies...I mean who HASN'T partook in an indigenous genocide or two, am I right??? 🤗 SARCASM
Ok. I'm going to be downvoted to hades for this, but it's important because people always bring it up. Let me preface this by saying that the Residential Schools existed to extinguish First Nations culture. They were likely unsanitary and communal living meant that the death rate for children there from diseases we now have a bit of a handle on, like TB, was higher than in the general school age population. BUT there have not been thousands of First Nations children discovered in mass graves in Canada. Firstly, no-one involved claims there were mass graves. The claim is that there were individual unmarked graves of children whose deaths weren't recorded. And secondly, Ground Penetrating Radar was used to identify anomalies in the soil that *may* be graves. It doesn't identify human remains in any way. I know that in Pine Creek the sites where anomalies detected by GPR were excavated no human remains were found.
At at Kamloops the anomalies haven't been excavated, but a good portion of the orchard has already been examined by archaeologists during previous construction projects and no remains were found. We have to be cautious and precise in our language, because it's incredibility traumatic and painful for everyone involved.
Load More Replies...Um, maybe but the U.S. absolutely sucks in our treatment of anyone who isn't a white male. How we're not on an international Human Rights warning list is totally amazing to me.
because the USA has veto on the UN security council and it is not a signatory to the ICC / Rome Statute.
Load More Replies...New Zealand has better record of treating indigenous people, than other colonies. Not perfect though, loads more improvement needed
Someone tweeted about Britain's heinous colonization throughout the world today. As an American, I ethically couldn't comment.
Colonialism has never been pleasant. I often wonder what the current world would look like if we (humans) hadn't 'colonized' everywhere they could. Like a virus.
Not just a virus. Like every living thing. Welcome to Gaia. Enjoy your stay.
Load More Replies...Brazil... Mexico... although the trend among Mexicans seems to be to pretend that they have no relation to those white colonists. (9% of Mexicans identify as being descended from Europeans, although as a whole, 47% of Mexico's genes are European.)
It's happening right now as we speak in Gaza! And more countries then these three are complicit!
Oh come on now. Take a look at the percentages of Indian kids in foster care vs. any other race, the number of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls, the prevalence of suicide and addiction issues in reserves and first nations communities, and realize it's still happening.
Load More Replies...Furthermore, Canadians live in a society that in most legal and official matters resembles Britain, at least in the English-speaking portion of the country.
Quebec, in particular, exhibits French adaptations: more than three-fourths of its population speaks French as their primary language.
The French character in Quebec is also reflected in differences in religion, architecture, and schooling.
Elsewhere in the country, French influence is less apparent, confined largely to the dual use of French and English for place names, product labels, and road signs.
The French and British influences are supplemented by the cultures of the country’s Native American peoples (in Canada they are often collectively called the First Nations) and Inuit peoples, the former being far greater in number and the latter enjoying semiautonomous status in Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.
Interestingly, two doctoral students at McMaster University, a bit outside of Toronto, compared millions of geotagged tweets from the United States and Canada from 2015. They looked at the top 10 percent of words most likely to be used by Canadians and compared them with the top 10 percent most likely to be used by Americans.
They discovered that Canadians, true to form, are just way nicer on Twitter.
The most disproportionately Canadian words on Twitter were things like "amazing," "great," and "favorite." Of course, the word "agree" was on the Canadian side of things, too.
The words way more likely to show up in American tweets — some of which had to be blurred out when presenting results of the study — included "damn," "hate," "a**," and some racial slurs that shouldn't be repeated.
Psshhhh.... that's Montana. Winter and fire season at the same time.
To learn more about Canada and the people who live there, fire up our previous publication on 'Funny Canadian Memes' and its most popular content.
The entire aviation industry accounts for 2% of global emissions. Private planes account for 2-3% of aviation emissions....emissions from cars in the US, account for 5% of GLOBAL emissions (and 30% of overall US emissions) meanwhile, we're up to 400,000,000 TONNES of plastic produced per year, and FIFTY F*****G PERCENT OF IT IS SINGLE USE. Straws, bags, food packaging, beverage bottles...STFU about the paper straws. In fact, stop trying to pretend the selfish, short sighted and unnecessary collective actions of BILLIONS of people aren't significant simply because you can point to someone that is doing slightly worse then you are.
Are… are there Canadian “rednecks”? Signed, an American who is genuinely curious.
Oh my God finally! French-Canadian - Québec - culture is rich and to be respected and protected as much as any other!
"Lloydminster is a city in Canada which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan".
All in favor of renaming Canada 'Canadia' to sound cooler say I.
As a Canadian, I laughed quite hard at a few of these. Well done. The Tim Hortons drive-through will be like that until the end of time. The Uber driver is spot on. Moose are basically the size of a car.
Let's not forget the Canadian versus the Finnish approach to bear/s in your backyard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTKJgsxwpE
The fond memories of edmonton Halloween. Either you suffered being cool and getting frostbite or you became the jet puff marshmallow man dressed as your costume. (For those who don't get it, a lot of parents made their kids wear winter jackets and snow pants under their costumes because their was usually snow on the ground at that point.)
Many are not Canadian at all. Just 80s memes or some.sort of weird right wing meme
Although I would prefer no politics at all in the posts, it's refreshing to see something that's not left leaning for once. I stopped coming to this site a long time ago because it seems like everything was crazy Woke.
Load More Replies...Would you have the same criticism if they were memes making fun of the right? I haven't been to this site in a while but it got crazy Woke and left leaning over the years. Overwhelmingly left. So at the very least, at least it's a tiny little bit of balance.
Load More Replies...All in favor of renaming Canada 'Canadia' to sound cooler say I.
As a Canadian, I laughed quite hard at a few of these. Well done. The Tim Hortons drive-through will be like that until the end of time. The Uber driver is spot on. Moose are basically the size of a car.
Let's not forget the Canadian versus the Finnish approach to bear/s in your backyard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxTKJgsxwpE
The fond memories of edmonton Halloween. Either you suffered being cool and getting frostbite or you became the jet puff marshmallow man dressed as your costume. (For those who don't get it, a lot of parents made their kids wear winter jackets and snow pants under their costumes because their was usually snow on the ground at that point.)
Many are not Canadian at all. Just 80s memes or some.sort of weird right wing meme
Although I would prefer no politics at all in the posts, it's refreshing to see something that's not left leaning for once. I stopped coming to this site a long time ago because it seems like everything was crazy Woke.
Load More Replies...Would you have the same criticism if they were memes making fun of the right? I haven't been to this site in a while but it got crazy Woke and left leaning over the years. Overwhelmingly left. So at the very least, at least it's a tiny little bit of balance.
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