The New York Times is reporting this morning that the Wikileaks dump of diplomatic documents shows American officials increasingly fluttery over anti-American sentiment north of the border.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed longstanding negative images of the U.S. \u2014 and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast \u2014 is noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada,\u201d the cable said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The article goes on to suggest that American diplomats think Canadians are simply grumpy because of their purported second-class status on the world stage.\u00a0 Here’s a sample, again from the Times:<\/p>\n
A trove of diplomatic cables…disclose a perception by American diplomats that Canadians \u201calways carry a chip on their shoulder\u201d in part because of a feeling that their country \u201cis condemned to always play \u2018Robin\u2019 to the U.S. \u2018Batman.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n