Interesting how cultural export seems to be extremely important in perceptions, except for some outliers, like Canada. Why do people like Canada, do you think? Can it be just “being nice” or is there more?
I’d say because, in part, we are a developed middle-power country with a stable democracy and educated society. Our trade and foreign policies are quite reasonable towards others; plus our parks and landscapes are bountiful and beautiful ♡
Our flag is also quite distinctive and our leaders tend to be charismatic speakers on the world stage who prefer the rule-of-law. We are fairly progressive, a little socialist, and I think our culture is pretty neat too ♡
Canada is the constant victim of bullying from the USA so people feel sorry for Canada.
Canada has a lot of good tourist PR out there, and Canada’s tourism tends to be about natural places, which very few people find objectionable (compare that to say Carnival in Rio which some people might think is too naughty)
The UK has been the aggressor in plenty of wars, but since Canada became its own country, it hasn’t really been. It has joined on to wars started by the UK or the US, but isn’t much of a warmongering country.
People don’t know about how very environmentally unfriendly Canada is in many ways, from the tar sands, to individual energy use, etc. So, Canadians avoid that damage.
In any way that Canada is bad, the US is almost always worse, so any time there’s a comparison Canada looks better.
In general, Canada has been relatively friendly to immigration compared to many other countries.
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Interesting how cultural export seems to be extremely important in perceptions, except for some outliers, like Canada. Why do people like Canada, do you think? Can it be just “being nice” or is there more?
I’d say because, in part, we are a developed middle-power country with a stable democracy and educated society. Our trade and foreign policies are quite reasonable towards others; plus our parks and landscapes are bountiful and beautiful ♡
Our flag is also quite distinctive and our leaders tend to be charismatic speakers on the world stage who prefer the rule-of-law. We are fairly progressive, a little socialist, and I think our culture is pretty neat too ♡
That’s a very articulated answer, thanks!
It’s pretty clear Israel needs to start exporting maple syrup and cute pokemon like cartoons asap 🤣
In Europe at least, there’s a lot of historical respect. Canadians fought and died in major wars an ocean away.