This is so dead on, I gotta commend you.
Come to Canada as a foreigner, and you’ll quickly realize that aside from the metric system and an occasional French sign, it looks a whole lot like the US.
Yet talk to people, and you’ll quickly find out that they take immense pride in not being yanks.
This is a little confusing, so you might start asking: What exactly are the differences? You’ll get either a dead stare, or a leaf mumbling about “we have socialized healthcare.”
(The biggest exception are the old time leafs, who still remember some of the “Rah! Britannia! The Somme!” They used to teach in schools.)