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[yuuago]

I wrote another fanfic today~ It's about the War of 1812 and features a very, very angry Canada. Oh my.
... But I still need to edit the other one, so I shan't be typing this one up for a while. Ahhh~
I was wanting to do one about 1812, but hadn't had any specific ideas. However, this one hit me like a brick while I was walking home, and I just had to do it. Yay?

And now, homework time~

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[parzi.livejournal.com]

Oh hi, here I am, replying several entries back.

But I just found this video that is, essentially, what I remember most about The War of 1812. We were taught other things in my middle school history class, but this sticks in my mind most because we were allowed to get extra credit for memorizing and performing this song for our teacher (who I now realized was doing it for the lulz).



The Battle of New Orleans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans) is the battle we in TN emphasize, because 1) we kicked ass, 2) our native son Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson was the commander, and 3) there's a catchy banjo picking song about it. The fact that the war was officially already over when it happened? Is totally not important. Right?

[yuuago]

Ahaha, oh my. xD Gotta' love catchy banjos, uh-huh.

And, the Canadians retaliated with THIS, which contains a section parodying the song you just posted, though I didn't have any clue about that until now =p

[parzi.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, you stole our song. Ours is definitely better, though. The *twang~* is AUTHENTIC.

What with the the Americans forgetting we even fought the Canadians and the Canadians (oh forgive me) slightly overemphasizing their own involvement, one wonders what the British POV is on all of this. Probably something akin to "Oh that? Who cares, we were fighting bloody FRANCE."

I guess Napoleon is a little more distracting. :/

[yuuago]

Yeaahhh. British opinion is probably that it was just some little insignificant scuffle down in the colonies and nobody cares about Canada anyway. D: They had their hands full with France, mmhm.

Eheh. Slightly overemphasizing our involvement indeed. *facepalm* There was so much in the war that Canadians actually did, but aside from the whole Laura Secord thing, nobody remembers any of it, and so much emphasis is put on something we didn't even do. Sigh. People are silly.

[parzi.livejournal.com]

Haha, I am more and more coming to the conclusion that this is the most misinterpreted war in all of North American history. Like, I thought one thing was odd when I watched your video, that it's talking about "the only War the Yankees" lost while here we're always given the impression that we won.

And I looked it up, and you know what? No one won. Literally. The treaty was "status quo ante bellum" which means, everything will be exactly the same as it was before the war. So in the end nothing was achieved, except Canadians gloating they burned the White House, Americans bragging they could totally fight a war with a major world power and not lose, and England having an annoying distraction while it should have been spending all of it's attention fighting one of the most well known conquerors in modern history. Oh well~

[yuuago]

Yeah. It was just suck on all sides, pretty much.
We're just glad y'all didn't win, because then Canada would probably be part of the US, and that would be Very Bad. We love you guys, when we aren't making fun of you, but Seriously.

[parzi.livejournal.com]

And I am personally glad you guys didn't win either, because as a liberal we like to point out Canada for doing things that we want, but America just is not ready for yet, like universal health care. And then when we don't get these things, we cry and say 'I wish I could just move to Canada!' If there were no Canada....who would we have for an example? We can't use northern Europe, as awesome as they are, because they're just foreign.

And we love you guys too. Hetalia is perfect in characterizing the countries as sort of like adopted brothers, because that is totally how we act. (Though as the 'good' and drama-free child IRL I'm amused to be represented by the rebellious dramatic brother in all of this.)

[yuuago]

Whaaat? Northern Europe is too foreign? Well, I suppose. They talk funny there. But, saa, that is what some people here use. "Oh, I wish I could just move to Sweden~" I have heard it many times. People are very silly and are never satisfied with anything.

And YES I agree the Hetalia characterization is spot-on. More so than I expected, even, and it makes me very happy~ (Except for certain fan-interpretations of my side, though you already know about that)
And 'struth, you aren't much like the rebellious dramallama. But I bet you have some of it deep inside.;)

(Very, very deep inside)

[parzi.livejournal.com]

Well I'd love to move to Northern Europe too, but it's much too cold. That, and the foreign language thing. Canada, on the other hand, has minimal culture shock, and at least some places in it I am on good authority not totally freezing. But I guess the liberals in your country would have to aspire even higher. Oh Sweden~.

Haha, I'm not sure. But Hetalia-America has definitely gotten me appreciating some American things I was embarrassed about previously. Like how no matter what, he pretty much always means well. And American inventiveness is pretty great. Maybe he doesn't always have the best ideas or the most elegant ones, but he always has an idea!