bending stereotypes

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Jason taylor

A Canadian who is fiercely nationalistic, obsessed with "heritage" and picks a fight with anyone who is perceived to have insulted his country.

Depending on whether or not you mean a physical fight, we’re not all that rare, or even uncommon. Numerically, we probably peaked during the period 1965-1985, in terms of the nation as a whole, but you’ll find us most strongly represented from among those who were educated in in southern Ontario, as a general rule.

If you do mean picking a physical fight that does bend the stereotype, probably to the point where you’ve actually broken the stereotype. Fiercely nationalistic Canadians who obsess over their heritage rarely feel the urge to pick a physical fight because they are supremely confident to the point where they feel that a physical fight “proves nothing.” On the other hand, Jeremy Slater’s portrayal of Sgt. O’Neil in the breakfast scene from The Devil’s Brigade is usually considered "spot on" as the basic solution for Canada’s “problem children.”