Why I Wear a Vancouver Canucks Hockey Cap Hat - Phil in Bangkok

http://www.PhilinBangkok.com http://www.Canucks.com Quite a few viewers from around the world have asked me about my Canucks ball cap hat I wear. As you may notice I am from Canada, born and bred so Hockey is in our blood and stick in our hand when we arrive in the BEST Country in the world, rated #1 year after year. Which brings up another question people ask "If your country is so great why aren't you there?" A couple of things firstly as much as I love Thailand and other Countries I have visited or lived in, my heart is will always be for Canada. The one reason why I chose to live abroad is 9 months out of the year as much as I love my country the dark(shorten daylight) grey rainy weather plays havoc with my S.A.D Seasonal affective Disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder which makes me sad. Seriously though it really kills me and being a solar boy need my sun and light (people in the nothern hemisphere's understand) to give me energy and life. Another reason is I love to Travel and be an ambassador of sort to my country while travelling as so many positive feed back from people I meet but so many misconceptions as well. One thing especially in Asia when I say "I'm from Canada or I'm Canadian" is I get the " but you Asian?" way too often. Even in this day and age many people think Canada is all white (maybe all the snow helps) Asian people in the US don't get this so much for some reason. So here my identity is lost among the crowd in Thailand people think I'm Thai, in Singapore I'm Singaporean....so on. Ride with me on the Skytrain or Bus in any Asian city and just watch when I answer the phone and start talking, everyone stops stares and looks at me. I guess its the same if you saw a Indian guy with an Irish accent or an African guy with a Russian accent. People don't really understand that your accent of your voice is your identity. Canada's colours may be Red (Natives) and White (Colonizers) but really it has been always multicoloured. My name may be "Phil in Bangkok" but "I am Canadian!"
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