First of all thanks for not generalizing and, if I may, I'd like to offer an opinion. I daresay these people show their ignorance, NOT because you are an American, it's more likely because you are not Caucasian. The American ploy is just a cover-up. I'd be curious as to how they feel about the First Nations people of Canada - the ones who were there long before the White man even knew the country existed. (and from the recent news reports, the nation that Sarah Palin still doesn't know exists). Or maybe they're just mad because the taxes they pay on that one slice of bread could buy a whole loaf anywhere else in the world. Ask them which one of the First Nations peoples they belong to. The answer will probably be from somewhere in Europe - and that, my friend, is NOT Canada.