My former step-father was Canadian and when he was wooing my mother, my boyfriend at the time and I would always make jokes about Canada because I hate everyone that tries to marry my mother, on principle. So I fell into this nasty habit of making little digs, always masked behind jokes, about Canadians and all kinds of supposed inferiorities that they have.

Of course, it's not even remotely true, and now I'm certain that it's quite the opposite. We have a long way to go before we're as developed as Canada, but in the meantime I can't even think about making those jokes anymore.