Well, if it makes ya feel any better Mr.C. when I go to visit my friends in the US, I constantly remind them when a song comes on they really like, by a band they really like that it's a Canadian group that sings it, if it IS a Canadian group.
I also like pointing out the various Canadian actors and such on TV and movies they like to watch.
Then I tease them about stuff like, in another 50 years, we'll have control of the States

and how we're starting off by slowly dominating their entertainment industry and other forms of media
Then they laugh, and I laugh, and suddenly stop to give them the ol' "stink eye"

Then we laugh some more.