Why do so many Canadians and Americans hate eachother?

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I only remember ever getting into one disagreement with someone from Canada and it was quite minimal.

He had just moved to Houston and got a job in a 24 hour diner type of restaurant where I used to eat about once or twice a week, usually some time between 10 pm and midnight. So his first night on the job he was waiting on me.

When I got the ticket, instead of being charged for a hamburger and fries and iced tea, I was being charged for a hamburger and fries and something like ten or twelve iced teas. He refused to believe that iced tea came with free refills -- he had written down every time he refilled my iced tea.

I finally told him that if the manager backed him up, I would pay it. So he called the manager over who took one look at the ticket and confirmed that iced tea included free refills.

It wasn't much of a disagreement at all.

Canadians are sometimes surly about their giant neighbor to the south.

Americans rarely ever think about their tiny population neighbor to the north at all.

In fact the typical American is like Marilyn Monroe (who once said "when they said 'Canada' I thought it would be in the woods somewhere"),or like Al Capone who once said "I don't even know what street Canada is on!".

I dont know why this thread had to be awoken after lying in peaceful repose for 2 years and change.
The only incivility I've seen and had with Canadians has been on this forum. In the real world nothing of the sort has occurred with me. For all practical purposes, I don't see that much of a cultural difference between the two countries. Many Canadians come to the US regularly and many Americans go to Canada regularly. The ones I've met or known seem to feel at ease here or close enough to it and I have been to Canada without feeling like a foreigner.
Really, it's a non-issue.

IMHO Canada is the cat's pajamas, the bee's knees. I want what they got.

Life seems to get boring quickly without hatred. If you live next to a river separating your tribe from another, you'll be soon fed up with seeing every single day the same old, hackneyed, imperturbable blue color in its waters, and you'll conclude it's about time to paint 'em red.

Gun obsession.
Hate groups, racism, sexism, everything-ism.
Military zealousness.
Arrogance, boastfulness (of course, that's mostly the ones who are white, male and Christian)
Lack of cultural awareness. Ask some high-school students to name a country that starts with a U, and not one of them realize that their own country does, and give out answers like "Urope" and "Utopia".
Work too hard.
Overly materialistic, very negative to poor people
Health "care", cold-hearted medical people.
"World police"
Overly concerned with religion, especially Christianity.
One word: Trump!

When I was a little kid I used to think the only differences between us is that we Canadians spell color with a U and pronounce it zed, not zee. Now I know differently.

I just don't believe in the premise of the thread......

I feel like the person, back then, wanted to ignite something.

I've never met a Canadian who doesn't like Americans. And especially vice versa.

I too think there's an equal amount of both love and "hate" on both sides of the border.

I'll say the following, however based on personal experience. Certainly not "hate" since I don't hate anyone, but....

Nearly 25 years ago I worked at a lodge and casino in northern MN on a Native American Indian reservation which borders with Ontario. Canadians would routinely come "south of the border" to the casino. I worked in the restaurant of the lodge at the time and waited tables (I wasn't good at it). Canadians were as a rule horrible tippers. Not just for me, but for all waitstaff. One of the waitstaff called some Canadians on it asking why Canadians in general seem to be horrible tippers (she passed it off jokingly like "Certainly not YOU, but why do Canadians in general tip poorly?" kind of thing). She was told that in Canada the tip is automatically figured into the bill at restaurants. This was back in the very early 1990s. We found out later that apparently that was not truthful as a rule.

I know someone who works part time at a chain department store in a town about 2.5 hours south of the Ontario border. She works in the jewelry area. Buses of Canadians come down to shop (even though the population of the city they're coming from is larger than the town they go to which doesn't make sense to me). She says typically when they buy jewelry, they have her keep the packaging and they wear the jewelry out of the store for the sole purpose of avoiding paying duty tax on the items when they return to Canada. She said it's their modus operandi.

Just some observations. I don't think that means Canadians in general are bad people or it's reflective of all Canadians. They are simply factual observations.

On another note, my wife has a friend since childhood who moved to Canada from the U.S. over twenty years ago with her husband and now their young adult dual citizen son. They love Canada and say they would never move back to the U.S. even though they do get homesick and still have family in the U.S.

Many Canadians resent their "neighbor to the south" or dislike vehemently cultural aspects of America or American policy, and people on both sides of the border do make stereotype jokes and statements about people in the other country but as a whole from what I have seen Americans don't hate Canadians and Canadiens don't hate Americans.

It's more like Americans think of Canadians as being their younger siblings. Like Canada is a "junior" country.

Canadians think Americans are arrogant and crude.

Listen to the lyrics of the Guess Who's "American Woman." The Guess Who might deny it----but it was a renunciation of American arrogance.

if I were Canadian i'd be praying for my misguided neighbors to the south.