A poll

I have a friend here that I knew from home that I used to spend a lot of time with. He is American and lived half of his life in Canada. When he and I used to spend all of the time that we did together, much of it was spent arguing about the merits of being Canadian versus being American. He was staunchily anti-Canadian, and you can imagine how that made my blood boil. So tonight I was talking to him and making plans for tomorrow. We are going with Adam and some friend of his to "Halloween in the Castro". He casually mentions that I shouldn't tell this girl that he's bringing that he lived in Canada becasue he is ashamed of it. ASHAMED. OF. IT.
Naturally hearing that set off my crazy switch and I berated him for being ignorant and perpetuating ignorance. He went on to tell me that he told this girl that it's way too cold in Canada and that we really do live in igloos. He also told her that he lived in Hong Kong.
So the poll.
DO Americans really think that Canada is that cold?
(people, I grew up in a desert! IN CANADA!)

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