So is it cool if a Canadian makes jokes about Americans...if they're making fun of Canada?

This is a personal pet peeve. Being a Canadian living in LA, I'm constantly hearing Canadian jokes. Every once in a while if I make a joke about the US, the room goes silent. I'm interested in hearing if anyone has their own personal philosophy about what is cool/not-cool when joking about other countries.

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No!

It's not so cool if on their soil- GET back to Canada then joke about Americans. LOL

Seriously

They probably weren't joking about Canada, only joking about the Canadian living in LA.

Laughing with you and not about you.

Every one is proud of their country (Or should be)

So, Joke with them and try not to step on any ones toes.

All in good fun and if not tell them right out right!

So is it cool if a Canadian makes jokes about Americans...if they're making fun of Canada?

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I really dont think I have heard that many jokes about Canadians, unless the comedians were Canadians themselves.
It's cool to joke aboot people from any country except Americans. Reason being "We'll kick your a$$" :D
Yes, it's cool. I'm an American, and my ego isn't so huge that I can't take some ribbing. Americans are just as ridiculous as the rest of the world, and if they can't take a joke, then they shouldn't be passing them out. We better learn to laugh at ourselves, because everybody else is.
I make jokes about everyone and I laugh at any joke, as long as its funny.

Maybe the problem isnt the fact that youre joking about Americans, but that your jokes arent funny? :)

Give us an example of one of the jokes you made if you can think of one.
Well being ina country your joking about is not a good thing its like that everywhere I wouldnt go to Canada and make a joke about it infront of a bunch of canadians, Just consider it a timing issue and learn from it.
Depends on what country your in and who the joke is about. It is disquieting. I have been the brunt of jokes and hostility when I spent time in Canada, England, %26amp; Mexico. When you閳ユ獧e the foreigner people like to wind you up. When I moved from San Diego to Denver about 11 years ago there was open hostility towards all Californians coming from people I didn't know and grown up family members that I remembered as babies. People loved expressing thier hatred towards us! I閳ユ獡 not even a native Calif but my license plates made it so. That閳ユ獨 beside the point though. It was plain ignorance.

My earlier years in England were brutal, I even tried to hide my accent, but recent years the Brits have started to like us yanks.

It is not cool or funny for the most part but some people love to have something to say to make someone else not OK.

Or they think they are truly funny.

Imagine life as a French Person traveling around. No one seems to like the French. OOOps are you a French Canadian that the English Canadians don閳ユ獩 like?

It is cruel, hateful, and judgmental and life as it is on Earth. You need a snappy comeback to preserve your dignity and lighten the atmosphere.

You should hear the comments people have about people from LA. Outside of Cali you would think they are talking about an entirely different species.