The line between Trailer Park Boys and McClean & Cherry is getting blurry

Theory of 'New’ Canadian Nationalism
A. Whiny/insecure version
i) Coaches Corner whining about the new NHL (Americanized since 1927)
ii) Why doesn't the USa doesn’t “get (to)/know/”
iii) “At least we don’t have ______” false sense of superiority



B. Learned tolerance version
i) Dudley Do-right sense of international moralism
ii) Go f#$k yourself and leave us alone
iii) What-me-worry joie de vivre?




Some examples of the fear of the "Canadian other"

Wife of former Montreal Expos on having to go to Plattsburgh, NY:
“there are important staples we have to go there for, like Doritos” (Crichler, 1992, p.6 cf. Rosentraub, 1997, p. 335).

Former Expos Managers Dick Williams on the struggles of the Expos:
“Modern day baseball players don’t like Montreal, not because of your city, but because they are baseball players…For the modern day player, differences are not to be tolerated. The modern day player doesn’t hate Montreal so much as he’s afraid of it” (Williams & Plaschke, 1990, p. 205, cf. Rosentraub, 1997, p. 335).