Why are Canadians so polite and nice?

Question

Take this question however you want to take it. If you think I'm being sincere or silly, it's for the reader to decide.

But Canadians were rated the most polite country on earth in a narrow lead over Australia and Greece and Italy and the UK.

Why are Canadians such nice people despite sharing a continent with such meanies to the South who want to invade all these countries and stir up controversy everywhere.

How do Canadians maintain their niceness?

Answer 1

I think Michael has a valid point. Even today winters are long and harsh. If the neighbour's car needs a boost, you help him out because it could be you in that position next week. In rural areas especially, you get used to looking out for people - I mean when it's 20 below a person could die stuck in a snowbank on an isolated country road so you help them because you may have to depend on the kindness of a stranger yourself one day. It's something you learn as a child and it becomes a mindset. That being said, I've met some very kind and friendly Americans and we do have jerks up here too.

Answer 2

They aren't necessarily. You are a human, right? Canada just isn't the USA. You're clearly hating on the country and I don't know what your reasoning is, or where you actually reside. Being polite and nice aren't indications of genuine friendliness aside from the fact that not all Canadiens are that way anyway. Their foreign policy is a mystery to me, but they also have a lot less people who live there. Don't learn french, move to Quebec and tell me how nice and polite they are.

Answer 3

We are like Americans. 90% nice people and 10% jerks. This Canadian lived in LA for 10 years and really, Americans are just as nice overall. But US jerks do tend to draw attention to themselves a lot more.

Answer 4

They are not nice and polite at all. The only people who say that are canadians. I see canadians posting the same thing regularly about themselves.

If you want to test my point of view, when driving, blow your horn at a jaywalker or bad driver, and you will receive a stream of obscenities in return, every time. They are rude and arrogant people

Answer 5

Most Canadians are immigrants, first generation or earlier. Many came from third world ountries where the culture encourages politeness and friendliness towards other people. Most importantly, Canada recognizes that people still have relatives, properties etc, in short ties to their old countries. It does not try to make them break these ties. It seems that in the southern neighbour, immigrants are encouraged to see themselves as Americans and forget about wherever it is that they came from. Coupled with this is the general lack of awareness about what is happening in the rest of the world.



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Answer 6

Size and success.



Canada is the World's 2nd largest nation in size. Only Russia owns more of the Earth's surface than Canada.

In rough terms, Canada is 10 million square kilometres in size, 7 million of which is the savage natural wilderness filled with the breathtaking scenery Canada's known for.

If you lived in a natural paradise like that where people have all that wilderness as their own private playground, you'd find your attitudes & opinions changing about a great many things.



Like a Canadian Prime Minister once said:



"What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature."

-Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former Prime Minister and the late father of current Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.



As for success, when you're all zen-like from nature it's easy to put reason ahead of passion and get results:



'Canada: Richer than America and more economically powerful than Europe'

'The most prosperous nation in the Americas, Canada ranks first in personal freedom'

'It's Official, Canada Ranked #1 Most Free Country In The World'



'Canadian cities rank top in North America for personal safety and security'

'Canadian cities 'dominate' North American quality-of-life rankings'

'Canada has 3 of the world's top 5 most livable cities'



'Canada's middle class richest in world: report'

'Canadians getting richer, average net worth tops $400,000'

'Look out, Americans, average Canadian is richer than you are'



'Canada is best G20 country for females, India worst'

'Best Country For Kids: Canada Best Place In The World To Raise Children'

'Your Kids Will Have A Better Life If You Move To Canada'



'Canada leads the world in producing highly educated adults'

'Canada remains worlds most educated country'

'More Canadians have post-secondary education than other OECD nations'



'Canada ranks first for its business operating environment among the 60 largest economies in the world'

'Canada to lead G7 nations in average growth for next 50 years: OECD'



'The Best Place To Live Is Canada, Compared To The World'

'Canada's natural beauty, multicultural society, health care service and security made it the top place on the planet'

'Millennials Name Canada The Best Country In The World'



'Canada Voted #1 Best Country In The World For Quality Of Life'

'Confirmed: Canada is the best place in the world to live'

'Canada can fairly claim to be the best-governed country in the world'



And things like that are literally barely anything that Canadians have quietly been achieving while other nations are busy running around blowing their own horns claiming to be the best and greatest at everything.

Until a Canadian comes along and politely sets them straight.

Or not so politely if someone's a d*ck to start with since rudeness is the only thing people like that understand.

Answer 7

Practice

Answer 8

Sad that some on the continent are not nice. The Border does not let the niceness go South nor the Bad stuff come North.

TYou will find that similar sized town are usually just as nice both sides of the Border. One country just has more bigger places that just are not as nice.

Answer 9

The perception of politeness is as much of a myth as it is reality. Based on personal experience I can say at least 5-10% of the people I pass by on streets behave like outright assholes.

Answer 10

It's sort of a talent which we catch like a childhood disease. Or maybe when you're up to your whazoo in snow and it's colder than a whore's heart one doesn't look for more to complain about.

Answer 11

I think we are pretty much on par with the Australians. It's just our nature, it doesn't pay to get ulcers over trivial things.



If we can help our neighbor we do. Recently we had some major fires, that, people lost everything, all of Canada stood up an were counted.



Sure you have some ignoramuses, but you have those everywhere you go.



Even me, I thought the people in the Northwest Territories were a bunch of ragamuffins. Well I was wrong, I just came back after a month. My friend, they were great people.

Answer 12

It`s part of are culture,When your nice and polite people tend to be nice and polite back.Not all Canadians are like that ,but there`s just enough to keep it in motion.When people are rude they tend to get a rude response.So i hope we will always have enough nice people to keep spreading it around.It`s just like a smile or a yawn, it`s contagious

Answer 13

There are too many vaginas in Canada

Answer 14

The reason we are nice can be traced back to when Canada was first settled. Back then, winters were harsh and if you did not trust your neighbour, you may not make it though the winter.



Slowly, over time, we have maintained this niceness.

Answer 15

Canadians are a combination of the British (who are polite but not friendly) and the US (where over-friendly service is the norm, whatever you think of the policies of the government). Only in the US does the server in a restaurant greet you with "Hi, my name is Jason. I'll be your server tonight. Please let me know what I can do for you."

Answer 16

I notice that, too, but I live in America.



There will always be that contrast, lol.

Answer 17

Yeah like they're all that way.

Answer 18

Not the ones that I know.