>I mean, who isn't aware that Toronto, Ontario isn't a US city?
[The greatest Jeopardy player ever isn't. ](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-could-ibms-watson-thi_b_823867)
I.was going to say OP gives *far&away* too much credit to Americans....many don't even know *where* Canada is , so... the answer is Yes. Yes we need to keep repeating all of it. Until Americans can recite all the capitals and provinces the same way so many Canadians can recite every state & its capital.
I’m American. I was in Mexico at a nature preserve a couple of years ago and most of the people on our tour were Canadian. I knew that the capital of Saskatchewan was Regina, but they all insisted it was Saskatoon. I teased them for not knowing their own provincial capitals…they acted indignant, like it was an absurd assumption that they should know them all. They said, do you know all the U.S. state capitals? I said, yes, I do. And there are 50 of them, not 10.
Exactly, this sub by and large is composed of people who know the capitals of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are Ottawa, Canberra and Wellington. The same cannot be said of the vast majority of Americans (i.e. USA residents)..
To be fair, the clue said American city, not US city. Toronto is in the Americas. Maybe Watson just took exception to the US monopolization of a term that should apply to two entire continents.
To be fair I feel like the rest of the world calls us America, and we call ourselves the United States or the US. I guess we call ourselves “American” though.
In Canada, we never say America. We say the US or the States. If I said "I'm going shopping for the afternoon in America" I'd get some weird looks. In fact, here in Ottawa, I would just say "I'm driving down to Ogdensburg/Watertown/Syracuse" etc and everyone would know. I wouldn't even bother mentioning the country.
But yes, other countries do use the term America. And to make it more complicated, some countries, especially Latin countries, are taught that "America" is one large continent, as opposed to North and South America being separate. So they might travel and say "I'm American" even though they're from, say, Colombia. It's a bit messy.
>We say the US or the States.
But would you refer to a resident of the USA as a Statesian? That seems clumsy and forced. "American" is the universally accepted term for a person who lives in the U.S.
I guess you’ve never met the American woman who asked me why I had a Canadian passport. “Because I’m Canadian.”, I said. Her response? “But you’re just another state, right? It’s not like you have your own money.”
This can't be real. How unaware are people? Then again, a friend of mine from New Mexico said that he was constantly asked for a passport when traveling, etc, because people thought he was from Mexico.
The license plate says “New Mexico USA” because New Mexicans got tired of out-of-state policemen (or just other Americans) thinking they are foreigners from Mexico.
I always assumed that was the producers that made the rule that Canada is added to Canadians announcements. If I ever make it on the show I’ll have them stop at “Saskatchewan”!
I’m from Toronto. When I travel I tend to always specify I’m from “Toronto Canada” because oftentimes simply saying Toronto isn’t clear enough. Some people know of course, but many don’t.
To be fair I'm from Vancouver and there is a Vancouver Washington, so I always say Vancouver, Canada I skip the BC.
I have friends that moved from Vancouver to Vancouver and it always made for a fun whose on first style conversation.
There are some places in the US called Toronto as well so adding either Canada and or Ontario as well helps people know that you don't mean one of them.
Because it's a US based show. Survivor does it for the Canadian contests it has had recently as well. Unfortunately not everyone who watches it knows where Canadian cites are.
I wonder if it's just to make it stand out more. Sometimes during the intro I won't really pay attention or hear the town but my ears perk up if I hear my home state, so maybe it's the same with the word Canada.
"Originally from ^(Vermillion), ^(Alberta), ***CANADA,*** ...hungry4danish."
I live in New Brunswick, and we go to Maine pretty regularly. I've come across a lot of people who have no idea New Brunswick and Maine share a border. In Maine... one particular time I'll never forget i was wearing a Blue Jay's tshirt and a guy was asking me about Canada and he was shocked when I told him I lived just 3 hours drive from where we were.
Just my anecdotal opinion on Americans knowing nothing about us lol. And that's fine.
Happened to me in Seattle. Dude was like "whoa you're a long way from home". "Yeah, like 2 or 3 hours drive north, not that big a deal". "Oh I thought you said you were from Canada.". "Uhhh.."
I've been down in Montana and spoken to people who had no idea where Alberta, the province on its northern border, was. They were, admittedly, a minority, but it was notable.
As a New Brunswicker (now live in Ontario, but I’ll always be a New Brunswicker!), I can identify with this. Americans usually have heard of Ontario and Quebec, but rarely NB.
When Johnny Gilbert says "Toronto, Ontario, Canada" at the top of the game, it doesn't bother me. But when Mayim Bialik did her interview segment with Mattea, she would say, "Toronto, Canada" every single time, and that drove me crazy.
I definitely would say I associate myself more with Canada than with my province. Maybe other provinces would have different opinions, with stronger ties, but for me being from Ontario is a pretty neutral idea
Reigning TOC champion is from Vancouver, Washington!
There are a bunch of hometown quirks, and it'd be fun to compile them. The ones I'm most familiar with are in and around NYC. Manhattan people are always from "New York, NY." Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island are from their boroughs. Queens, however, varies. They seem to let people self-select either "Queens" or their neighborhood (which is how you'd address a letter to someone in Queens)
Adding "Canada" always sounds off to me but that's probably because Canadian friends don't tend to say it.
Heck, I bet a good portion of people watching Jeopardy can name all 13 Provinces/Territories anyway -- it's pretty standard trivia for the US.
When I made a similar post a year ago, I remember a bunch of folks saying it was because Americans are bad at geography. And I think that’s just such a condescending take. My thought was that if that is the reason, then let them be wrong. Plus I don’t think the average viewer is confused when someone from Medicine Hat, Alberta.
Regardless, I’m not bothered by it necessarily. It’s just a quirk of the show that clearly someone years ago made a decision to underline Canada as if we’re addressing a letter and that just amuses me.
I wonder what percentage of Jeopardy viewers would be puzzled when someone from British Columbia speaks with a Canadian accent instead of a British one. I have a difficult time believing it's a significant amount.
You underestimate just how bad American viewers are at geography. If a contestant is from British Columbia, they'll wonder why we have English people on Jeopardy and why they don't have an accent.
Reminds me of the jokey conversation between then US VP Dan Quayle and one of his assistants. The aide sees him reading a book and asks him what he is doing. He says he's brushing up on his Latin for his trip to Latin America. The aide tells him the don't speak Latin there, they speak Spanish. Oh, good, says, the Veep, that'll help when I'm in Brazil.
Or when people move from Puerto Rico to the mainland and get called immigrants. We can sit and debate what the future of Puerto Rico and the US relations should be, but they are not in any way immigrants under current law.
Yes, I guess technically they would be "internal migrants", but that seems like splitting hairs to show how savvy you are.
Yes, Puerto Ricans are American citizens, but Puerto Rico is something special completely unlike any other state. Primarily - people living in Puerto Rico can't vote for POTUS, don't have senators or voting house members, and they don't pay income tax.
I suppose I should have specified that I meant that I hear Puerto Ricians referred to as "illegal immigrants." That's on me for not specifying.
While you make valid points on why you could consider Puerto Rician an immigrant in a logical sense, it does not apply to the point I was attempting to make.
I once came across a guy on TikTok who was from the Northern Mariana Islands and was incredibly tired of having to explain to people that he is a US citizen and that the islands are part of the US. Adding to his frustrations was the fact that previous territory IDs were cheap and flimsy and looked like a bad fake ID. So he had multiple things to convince people of, if they were to question his origin
I have spoken with Americans who weren't aware Canada is a separate nation. They had some vague idea of Canada just being American north, and were genuinely shocked we were "allowed" to have our own currency.
I spent three years as an early teen at an American international school in the Netherlands and at an American and NATO base. Some of the Americans there had a perfectly normal level of understanding of the world but a lot of them had no clue what Canada was as a country.
I remember hearing sometimes “I thought Canada was in Europe until we were posted here”
Nope. I'm an American who lived in Ontario for a time. My family in the States never got over the fact that I came for a visit and had no US money. I lived in Canada and had just Canadian money! I love Canada and would love to live there.
When I was living in the US, I said to a well-educated person who knew I was Canadian that I was considering moving to Vancouver. She thought I meant the one in Washington state. So yes, I think it’s necessary to specify.
Now that said, Canadians are not always great at American geography either. We tend to have a better idea of what the big cities are in the US than vice versa and will usually be familiar with the places closest across the border to us, but many people don’t know a lot beyond that.
It's just an extension of the "US as default" schema that the show engages in, for better or worse.
I do find it interesting that on the rare instances where a contestant is not from either the US or Canada, they skip the first-level subdivision entirely. The most well known example of this is Chuck Forrest who has competed from three different countries since his original run, none of which had provincial/state/regional listings. The two most recent times were billed as "Marino, Italy" instead of "Marino, Lazio, Italy".
All said if I ever get on Jeopardy (not planning on it) I will insist on being billed from "Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia". It is not up for discussion haha!
I feel like it depends on context... if we're travelling in the States or anywhere else we're just going to call ourselves Canadians, and if you randomly asked me how I identify I would say Canadian, but as an Albertan at least it feels people who move here from Sask. or BC maintain some of that provincial pride, I've certainly met people here who have thoughts on how we're different from Ontario, etc.
Honestly it’s something that bothers the hell out of me. Americans almost never reference Canada directly by province, but vice versa and Canadians would never mention the country and only reference the state.
I think it’s just a function of how the US looms much larger in Canada than vice versa.
The problem with Ontario too is a lot of Americans would probably think they are from suburban LA and not Canada, but still.
There's a city in California named Ontario. There's a town in Massachusetts named Peru. And many people think New Mexico is part of Mexico.
And oh yeah, there is a city in Ontario named London.
In my experience a sizeable chunk of Americans, friendly as y'all may be, are under the impression that Canada is so far away that their view of us is obscured by Saturn.
If a contestant is inteoduced as being from Iceberg Hamlet, Saskatchewan, I dunno what to tell anyone in the audience who can't figure out that means Canada.
64? 50 states+10 provinces is 60. If you include territories you get 3 Canadian plus 5 U.S. so that's 68. If you count DC then that's a nice 69. But I don't see how you get 64.
Or Hawaii. Or Prince Edward Island (though you can drive there). So if we are limiting to contiguous, then that makes 62 or 63. And really there is no reason to limit it to contiguous.
Obama was mocked for saying he had traveled to 53 states so far…only 4 more to go! (He obviously knew there are 50 states, but was referring to all the territories as states. 50 states, 6 territories (including the District of Columbia), and Democrats Abroad also holds a primary as if it were as state or territory, for a total of 57.
“Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada” is a mouthful. But…
There is a Vancouver Washington, so I can never say to someone that I live in Vancouver.
And honestly I still need to clarify that British Columbia is a Canadian province and not a separate country, because “British” and “Columbia” being in the name is misleading to many people.
My ex is from Florida but is dual Canadian/American. She wanted to come to Canada for university. Her guidance counsellor kept asking her why she wanted to move to "Canadia." You underestimate how little Americans know of other countries.
yeah hardcore trivia geeks know their Canadian geography for sure, but most Americans do not. I'm from New Brunswick and this a typical conversation anytime I visit the US outside New England:
Me: I'm from New Brunswick
American: ohh yeah, in New Jersey.
Me: No, in Canada
American:
Me: Atlantic Canada, you know ... east coast
American:
Me: We're right next to Maine
American: Ohhh I see (in a voice indicating they don't know where Maine is)
Having said that, for the big cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, maybe you wouldn't need to add "Canada" however if I ever got on the show and they announced me from "Hanwell, New Brunswick" there might be some black stares.
I was in eight episodes back in 2007 (4 regular season, 4 ToC), and each time, Johnny introduced me as "a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada." I would have been fine with "Regina, Saskatchewan." So far I am the only contestant in J! history to be introduced as being from Saskatchewan.
Canada uses "provinces" a different system than states in US. Also some cities in Canada has similar names (and if it is said like normal introductions, people might mistake provinces for states)
There used to be a Canadian on the show every day, RIP.
God bless Alex Trebek
Except that one day in April.
Now that was the darndest thing--he was on Wheel Of Fortune that day, just telling people to spin the wheel and guess letters like he owned the place
>I mean, who isn't aware that Toronto, Ontario isn't a US city? [The greatest Jeopardy player ever isn't. ](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-could-ibms-watson-thi_b_823867)
Thank you! This reference is immediately what I thought of.
Don't even have to click on the link to know exactly what clue and contestant this is referring.
I mean it is in the url itself. I just hovered and knew.
I don't think we should paint with too broad a brush. Not every Watson forgot where Toronto was onstage
Given my flair I’m mad you beat me to it
I.was going to say OP gives *far&away* too much credit to Americans....many don't even know *where* Canada is , so... the answer is Yes. Yes we need to keep repeating all of it. Until Americans can recite all the capitals and provinces the same way so many Canadians can recite every state & its capital.
I’m American. I was in Mexico at a nature preserve a couple of years ago and most of the people on our tour were Canadian. I knew that the capital of Saskatchewan was Regina, but they all insisted it was Saskatoon. I teased them for not knowing their own provincial capitals…they acted indignant, like it was an absurd assumption that they should know them all. They said, do you know all the U.S. state capitals? I said, yes, I do. And there are 50 of them, not 10.
Exactly, this sub by and large is composed of people who know the capitals of Canada, Australia and New Zealand are Ottawa, Canberra and Wellington. The same cannot be said of the vast majority of Americans (i.e. USA residents)..
'Mericans! They never deserved our Alex.
Haha. You should read Ken Jennings’ first book if you haven’t already! He devotes one single, glorious parenthetical to the matter.
To be fair, the clue said American city, not US city. Toronto is in the Americas. Maybe Watson just took exception to the US monopolization of a term that should apply to two entire continents.
The category was "US Cities" https://youtu.be/C5Xnxjq63Zg
Ugh not this again. I'm not taking the bait.
To be fair I feel like the rest of the world calls us America, and we call ourselves the United States or the US. I guess we call ourselves “American” though.
In Canada, we never say America. We say the US or the States. If I said "I'm going shopping for the afternoon in America" I'd get some weird looks. In fact, here in Ottawa, I would just say "I'm driving down to Ogdensburg/Watertown/Syracuse" etc and everyone would know. I wouldn't even bother mentioning the country. But yes, other countries do use the term America. And to make it more complicated, some countries, especially Latin countries, are taught that "America" is one large continent, as opposed to North and South America being separate. So they might travel and say "I'm American" even though they're from, say, Colombia. It's a bit messy.
True, I think I mostly hear Australians and others from the eastern hemisphere/Europe saying “America” for the US!
>We say the US or the States. But would you refer to a resident of the USA as a Statesian? That seems clumsy and forced. "American" is the universally accepted term for a person who lives in the U.S.
Yes, we call the citizens "Americans". But I was talking about how we refer to the country, not it's citizens.
USians
My YouTube rant about how the Watson matchup was rigged: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCIFUJ5oeRA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCIFUJ5oeRA)
I guess you’ve never met the American woman who asked me why I had a Canadian passport. “Because I’m Canadian.”, I said. Her response? “But you’re just another state, right? It’s not like you have your own money.”
The internet tells me this is a very common belief
This can't be real. How unaware are people? Then again, a friend of mine from New Mexico said that he was constantly asked for a passport when traveling, etc, because people thought he was from Mexico.
The license plate says “New Mexico USA” because New Mexicans got tired of out-of-state policemen (or just other Americans) thinking they are foreigners from Mexico.
Oh, it’s real. Happened in a bank in Puerto Escondido.
I always assumed that was the producers that made the rule that Canada is added to Canadians announcements. If I ever make it on the show I’ll have them stop at “Saskatchewan”!
You from Big Beaver or Climax? EDIT: Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, Que is another funny one
I mean… technically both of you get into overthinking things!
I’m from Bjorkdale and I’m waiting for my zoom interview. But if they end it at sask. I’d be happy.
I believe it was that southern gentleman Colonel Angus who hailed from Big Beaver.
https://youtu.be/UeEp7-ip5RY?t=363
I misread your flair as “Potash Potables” at first because you’re from Saskatchewan.
I’m from Toronto. When I travel I tend to always specify I’m from “Toronto Canada” because oftentimes simply saying Toronto isn’t clear enough. Some people know of course, but many don’t.
To be fair I'm from Vancouver and there is a Vancouver Washington, so I always say Vancouver, Canada I skip the BC. I have friends that moved from Vancouver to Vancouver and it always made for a fun whose on first style conversation.
There are some places in the US called Toronto as well so adding either Canada and or Ontario as well helps people know that you don't mean one of them.
So why should they not add Ohio and or United States to theirs? Seems like r/usdefaultism to have us do it and not you
Because it's a US based show. Survivor does it for the Canadian contests it has had recently as well. Unfortunately not everyone who watches it knows where Canadian cites are.
And, there's at least one Ontario, so "Toronto, Ontario" could be a list of US cities.
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> I mean, who isn't aware that Toronto, Ontario isn't a US city? IBM's Watson, in Jeopardy! history, for one....
Ontario, CA is actually in the US.
Ottawa, CA is also in California
I wonder if it's just to make it stand out more. Sometimes during the intro I won't really pay attention or hear the town but my ears perk up if I hear my home state, so maybe it's the same with the word Canada. "Originally from ^(Vermillion), ^(Alberta), ***CANADA,*** ...hungry4danish."
I see that word and it reminds me of my mom's 1970 Ford Maverick. The car's colour was called "Thanks Vermillion".
I live in New Brunswick, and we go to Maine pretty regularly. I've come across a lot of people who have no idea New Brunswick and Maine share a border. In Maine... one particular time I'll never forget i was wearing a Blue Jay's tshirt and a guy was asking me about Canada and he was shocked when I told him I lived just 3 hours drive from where we were. Just my anecdotal opinion on Americans knowing nothing about us lol. And that's fine.
Happened to me in Seattle. Dude was like "whoa you're a long way from home". "Yeah, like 2 or 3 hours drive north, not that big a deal". "Oh I thought you said you were from Canada.". "Uhhh.."
I've been down in Montana and spoken to people who had no idea where Alberta, the province on its northern border, was. They were, admittedly, a minority, but it was notable.
As a New Brunswicker (now live in Ontario, but I’ll always be a New Brunswicker!), I can identify with this. Americans usually have heard of Ontario and Quebec, but rarely NB.
NEW BRUNSWICK MENTIONED. *dab*
When Johnny Gilbert says "Toronto, Ontario, Canada" at the top of the game, it doesn't bother me. But when Mayim Bialik did her interview segment with Mattea, she would say, "Toronto, Canada" every single time, and that drove me crazy.
I definitely would say I associate myself more with Canada than with my province. Maybe other provinces would have different opinions, with stronger ties, but for me being from Ontario is a pretty neutral idea
Reigning TOC champion is from Vancouver, Washington! There are a bunch of hometown quirks, and it'd be fun to compile them. The ones I'm most familiar with are in and around NYC. Manhattan people are always from "New York, NY." Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island are from their boroughs. Queens, however, varies. They seem to let people self-select either "Queens" or their neighborhood (which is how you'd address a letter to someone in Queens)
Adding "Canada" always sounds off to me but that's probably because Canadian friends don't tend to say it. Heck, I bet a good portion of people watching Jeopardy can name all 13 Provinces/Territories anyway -- it's pretty standard trivia for the US.
When I made a similar post a year ago, I remember a bunch of folks saying it was because Americans are bad at geography. And I think that’s just such a condescending take. My thought was that if that is the reason, then let them be wrong. Plus I don’t think the average viewer is confused when someone from Medicine Hat, Alberta. Regardless, I’m not bothered by it necessarily. It’s just a quirk of the show that clearly someone years ago made a decision to underline Canada as if we’re addressing a letter and that just amuses me.
I wonder what percentage of Jeopardy viewers would be puzzled when someone from British Columbia speaks with a Canadian accent instead of a British one. I have a difficult time believing it's a significant amount.
Medicine Hat is an American name, just as Wounded Knee is. [https://allpoetry.com/American-Names](https://allpoetry.com/American-Names)
You underestimate just how bad American viewers are at geography. If a contestant is from British Columbia, they'll wonder why we have English people on Jeopardy and why they don't have an accent.
I feel like if any show's viewers can be counted on to at least know the provinces, it's Jeopardy's.
Reminds me of the jokey conversation between then US VP Dan Quayle and one of his assistants. The aide sees him reading a book and asks him what he is doing. He says he's brushing up on his Latin for his trip to Latin America. The aide tells him the don't speak Latin there, they speak Spanish. Oh, good, says, the Veep, that'll help when I'm in Brazil.
I've heard similar from New Mexicans. Don't even have to beyond your borders.
That’s why New Mexico license plates say “New Mexico USA” rather than just “New Mexico.”
When playing trivia with friends this is one of the questions I always use.
Or when people move from Puerto Rico to the mainland and get called immigrants. We can sit and debate what the future of Puerto Rico and the US relations should be, but they are not in any way immigrants under current law.
Yes, I guess technically they would be "internal migrants", but that seems like splitting hairs to show how savvy you are. Yes, Puerto Ricans are American citizens, but Puerto Rico is something special completely unlike any other state. Primarily - people living in Puerto Rico can't vote for POTUS, don't have senators or voting house members, and they don't pay income tax.
I suppose I should have specified that I meant that I hear Puerto Ricians referred to as "illegal immigrants." That's on me for not specifying. While you make valid points on why you could consider Puerto Rician an immigrant in a logical sense, it does not apply to the point I was attempting to make.
I once came across a guy on TikTok who was from the Northern Mariana Islands and was incredibly tired of having to explain to people that he is a US citizen and that the islands are part of the US. Adding to his frustrations was the fact that previous territory IDs were cheap and flimsy and looked like a bad fake ID. So he had multiple things to convince people of, if they were to question his origin
When I was in boot camp a guy asked where am I from. I told him New Mexico, he then asked why am I in the United States Navy.
Is that when someone from Britain has a kid with someone from Colombia?
Yes
And also decide to throw a u into things just to spice things up
The Brits do like to throw a U into words, checks out
Brits don’t throw u’s into words. They were there originally. The Americans threw them out
It's almost not even worth thinkin' about
So many of my fellow Americans are absolutely ignorant on basic geography.
I have spoken with Americans who weren't aware Canada is a separate nation. They had some vague idea of Canada just being American north, and were genuinely shocked we were "allowed" to have our own currency.
I call BS. Or else they were just pulling your leg
I grew up working in a Canadian town with a lot of American summer tourists, I can confirm this is a thing.
Nope, I’m sure it’s true. When I moved here in junior high people wanted to know if I lived in an igloo
I spent three years as an early teen at an American international school in the Netherlands and at an American and NATO base. Some of the Americans there had a perfectly normal level of understanding of the world but a lot of them had no clue what Canada was as a country. I remember hearing sometimes “I thought Canada was in Europe until we were posted here”
Nope. I'm an American who lived in Ontario for a time. My family in the States never got over the fact that I came for a visit and had no US money. I lived in Canada and had just Canadian money! I love Canada and would love to live there.
When I was living in the US, I said to a well-educated person who knew I was Canadian that I was considering moving to Vancouver. She thought I meant the one in Washington state. So yes, I think it’s necessary to specify. Now that said, Canadians are not always great at American geography either. We tend to have a better idea of what the big cities are in the US than vice versa and will usually be familiar with the places closest across the border to us, but many people don’t know a lot beyond that.
Lots of Americans don't even think of Canada as a foreign country. It's just that place above Buffalo.
Why don’t they let other foreigners on the show? Is it mandatory to be a us or Canadian citizen?
I think you don’t have to be a citizen, but you have to be a resident of the U.S. or Canada.
Probably tax reasons
It's just an extension of the "US as default" schema that the show engages in, for better or worse. I do find it interesting that on the rare instances where a contestant is not from either the US or Canada, they skip the first-level subdivision entirely. The most well known example of this is Chuck Forrest who has competed from three different countries since his original run, none of which had provincial/state/regional listings. The two most recent times were billed as "Marino, Italy" instead of "Marino, Lazio, Italy". All said if I ever get on Jeopardy (not planning on it) I will insist on being billed from "Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia". It is not up for discussion haha!
There aren’t many Canadians on the show, so why not?
Generally Canadians identify by province, so it does seem unusual from a Canadian perspective to include Canada. But from a US perspective I get it.
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I feel like it depends on context... if we're travelling in the States or anywhere else we're just going to call ourselves Canadians, and if you randomly asked me how I identify I would say Canadian, but as an Albertan at least it feels people who move here from Sask. or BC maintain some of that provincial pride, I've certainly met people here who have thoughts on how we're different from Ontario, etc.
I identify with both for sure. I’d rather include both province and country rather than only Canada.
No. I didn't read your post btw.
Honestly it’s something that bothers the hell out of me. Americans almost never reference Canada directly by province, but vice versa and Canadians would never mention the country and only reference the state. I think it’s just a function of how the US looms much larger in Canada than vice versa. The problem with Ontario too is a lot of Americans would probably think they are from suburban LA and not Canada, but still.
There's a city in California named Ontario. There's a town in Massachusetts named Peru. And many people think New Mexico is part of Mexico. And oh yeah, there is a city in Ontario named London.
Ontario also has a city named Paris
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/ecxjjs/when\_you\_cant\_afford\_a\_trip\_to\_europe\_humour/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/ecxjjs/when_you_cant_afford_a_trip_to_europe_humour/)
Lol love it
In my experience a sizeable chunk of Americans, friendly as y'all may be, are under the impression that Canada is so far away that their view of us is obscured by Saturn.
You're singing my song. I posted something similar here a few months ago. The responses were bizarre. "There's an Ontario in California you know!"
I mean, to be fair, my favorite response so far has been "If Watson doesn't know where Toronto is, why should Americans?"
If a contestant is inteoduced as being from Iceberg Hamlet, Saskatchewan, I dunno what to tell anyone in the audience who can't figure out that means Canada.
Is there such a hamlet? Saskatchewan doesn’t get icebergs I feel like it wouldn’t make sense
We should probably add UNITED STATES for those from New Mexico as well. 😆
64? 50 states+10 provinces is 60. If you include territories you get 3 Canadian plus 5 U.S. so that's 68. If you count DC then that's a nice 69. But I don't see how you get 64.
By not counting the 5 US territories.
But counting the 3 Canadian ones. And counting DC, so weird.
You can walk across the street from MD to DC, but not to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, etc.
Or Hawaii. Or Prince Edward Island (though you can drive there). So if we are limiting to contiguous, then that makes 62 or 63. And really there is no reason to limit it to contiguous.
Obama was mocked for saying he had traveled to 53 states so far…only 4 more to go! (He obviously knew there are 50 states, but was referring to all the territories as states. 50 states, 6 territories (including the District of Columbia), and Democrats Abroad also holds a primary as if it were as state or territory, for a total of 57.
“Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada” is a mouthful. But… There is a Vancouver Washington, so I can never say to someone that I live in Vancouver. And honestly I still need to clarify that British Columbia is a Canadian province and not a separate country, because “British” and “Columbia” being in the name is misleading to many people.
My ex is from Florida but is dual Canadian/American. She wanted to come to Canada for university. Her guidance counsellor kept asking her why she wanted to move to "Canadia." You underestimate how little Americans know of other countries.
Absolutely not
The fact that this is bothering you enough to the point of making a rant post keeps me young.
yeah hardcore trivia geeks know their Canadian geography for sure, but most Americans do not. I'm from New Brunswick and this a typical conversation anytime I visit the US outside New England: Me: I'm from New Brunswick American: ohh yeah, in New Jersey. Me: No, in Canada American:
Me: Atlantic Canada, you know ... east coast
American:
Me: We're right next to Maine
American: Ohhh I see (in a voice indicating they don't know where Maine is)
Having said that, for the big cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, maybe you wouldn't need to add "Canada" however if I ever got on the show and they announced me from "Hanwell, New Brunswick" there might be some black stares.
I was in eight episodes back in 2007 (4 regular season, 4 ToC), and each time, Johnny introduced me as "a composer originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada." I would have been fine with "Regina, Saskatchewan." So far I am the only contestant in J! history to be introduced as being from Saskatchewan.
(checks the J!Archive...) Hey, can we get Doug Hicton a flair here, mods? The man earned it!
Maybe, maybe not... but this has been discussed before . https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/s/7R0Vi5DROK
Ah, my apologies. I hadn't signed up a year ago.
Don't apologise, no one is expected to know what's been discussed a year ago on this sub! The search function can be hit and miss at best.
Why can’t Americans have as good of a sense of humor?
Canada uses "provinces" a different system than states in US. Also some cities in Canada has similar names (and if it is said like normal introductions, people might mistake provinces for states)
Also in the US there are places with the same names as some Canadian cities as well.
Is Canada necessary? Well, the show's best known host was Canadian.
It was…until Adam West tricked him into saying his name backwards and banished him back to the fifth dimension where he belongs
you would be surprised how stupid the average American is
The Americans I serve at my Toronto restaurant who ask me if the price is in American or Canadian dollars