We are more similar than we are different. Let's talk about it a bit, to keep the media blitz from dividing us.

This is primarily aimed at Americans and Canadians, but this applies to the entire human race, really. Doesn't matter where on the planet you are, there might be some group of people that's just a villainous abstract that media both traditional and social feed to you, which might slowly poison your perception of the entire group, even if the rank and file among them are average joes you could hang out with on any given Friday night.

I would assume the majority of the Canadian public does not hate the American public. I would assume the American public does not hate the majority of the American public.

But I did recently see a post wherein internet anonymity and emotions flying high leading to a lot of generalizations, defenses of said generalizations, and people trying to defend themselves against those same generalizations.

Which, in part, is obviously the point. If you can't make them join you, you can get some of them pissed off enough at the people equating them to Satan for the place they were born (which they had no choice over) that they throw their hands up in frustration. Two perfectly normal people that could've gotten along just fine now on terrible terms.

So, to both keep bridges from being burned today, and hopefully minimize the amount of repairing that will need to be done in future, let's just chat a bit. Games, shows, food, anything to just make it easier to see your peers as people, and not caricatures that their elected officials flooding your media feeds represent.