Pre-Meta Post, and a call to my Canadian Flisters!

[paraka]

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY xdigital_kittyx! I hope you've had a great day! :D

In other news, I think it rained blueberries when I wasn't looking. Seriously.
When I left work today there were blueish/purple spots all over the ground and on people's cars. And some of them had what looked like the skin bit of the berry. I have no idea WTF happened :-/

In other, other news, I've been talking a lot lately with paradise_city. We seem to spend a lot of time having... "deep" meta conversations (so what if some of them involve how hot Colby is...).
One of the things that we were talking about was some of the wank that has gone on in fandom, like the race wank from earlier this year, or the more recent thing about yuletide being anti-semitic, and how a lot of this could be avoided if people took the time to explain what bothers them in fandom to other people. My most common complaint is how fandom represents Canadians (which is funny, since they don't much :P). In the interest of not being all talk and no walk, I've been thinking about making a post about it. Post about what it means to me to be Canadian, and how we're unique. Talk about how I see Canadians represented in fandom, and fanfic, and how people get us right/wrong.

Saying all that though, I mostly just whine about it because it's something I can relate to and not because I have rage issues against fandom associated with it, so in the interest of not being boring, I'd like to ask the people on my flist for help.

So, what kind of representations of Canadians have you seen that strike you as off, or make you angry or roll your eyes? And particular trends, stereotypes?

Hell, even if you're not Canadian, feel free to add your input. Things that you used to think, but now know to be untrue (what do you know, it's *not* always winter up here), or things you still think to be true (and they might be!)
If you have any questions about Canada that you've wanted answered but didn't know how to ask, fire away. I promise not to be offended!

I think it'd be especially interesting to hear from people who are in the due South fandom, since that show was stereotypes personified.

I'll start off by screening comments, in case anyone is shy but will probably unscreen them as I go, depending on the content.

Comments

[paraka]

Most of what irritates me in the fandom-specific stuff is the sheer laziness in fact-checking.
:P I remember when I first got into the HP fandom, and I would see people complain about how people would write Harry as American, or at least, not as a Brit, and I'd roll my eyes. But now that the tables are turned, I understand it a lot more.
Word on the beta thing. Something that the author don't even realize can really throw someone out of a fic. I remember once reading a QaF fic written by a Brit, and she had Brian "throw down some notes" to pay for his lunch. In my head, the "notes" were bright pink IOU notes. I know that Brian fell on some hard times in the series, but that's just silly :P
I *know* that in the UK they use pound notes, but still, it throws you off.

Newfie (and I use that word with the utmost love and respect)
Do people take offence to the term Newfie? I didn't know that. I use it all the time. :S Because how can you *not* love Newfies.