I remembered something important. I learned it at the Ain't Nothin' But (blues bar) last sunday. It goes a little something like this:

Everyone hates the US because of The World Series. The US is the ONLY COUNTRY that plays baseball, thus the rest of the world has nothing to do with it. So what gives the US the right to call it the world series?

Yeah, that's right. I've cracked it. Get rid of baseball and I won't feel the need to tell people that I'm from Canada when they ask where I'm from.