I was lurking around Reddit and I found post by someone from Cape Breton, where I live, who asked why they felt weird and uncomfortable whenever mentioning they're from CB because they fit none of the stereotypes associated with us.
Until know I felt like I was only person who felt that way. I say I'm Canadian all the time, and I don't even mind saying I'm from the province of Nova Scotia. But whenever I mention I'm from Cape Breton I feel like some space alien pretending to be this identity. I don't speak with a strong Scottish/Irish accent that other people have trouble understanding, I spend my days sitting on the porch listening to CBC radio, I don't play the fiddle or sing songs about coal miners or greet people by saying "Howshegoin, cousint, what'sgoin'on?"
I don't get it, if other people assume all Cape Bretoners are this way, that's stereotyping. But if you aren't this way people go on about the culture or identity dying. Also I wonder if this is mainly an autistic thing, and do other people on the spectrum not have the stereotypical traits of their own country or nationality and it's not something deliberate, it's just how they are?