You go further, and people don’t necessarily know how oblivious America is either, but go more by romanticised Hollywood tropes about the land of opportunity and cowboys.
Source: Have family all over.
Also, we pretty much see America as an adversary more often than not these days. You can kinda shove that 51st state implication.
I’m not sure if Canada really counts as “from outside”
You go further, and people don’t necessarily know how oblivious America is either, but go more by romanticised Hollywood tropes about the land of opportunity and cowboys.
Source: Have family all over.
Also, we pretty much see America as an adversary more often than not these days. You can kinda shove that 51st state implication.
Not as much 51st state as being on the same continent with pretty thoroughly replaced population.
But - OK =\ Honestly I’m not too knowledgeable about Canadian identities and nationalism.