This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing! I can relate to so much of this because I am Canadian by birth, and now also British by naturalisation. In all my years in this country, I have been treated as (and called) a "foreigner" which really hurts. I love this country and adopted it as my home. I appreciate it more than almost every Brit I've met, most of whom say, "Why would you want to move HERE?" And then they launch into all the reasons why England sucks.

I've been "corrected" repeatedly about the words I should be using. Canadian words are wrong, "No, it's a saucepan, not a pot." I've been told how to pronounce words the English way, as people try to make me sound more British and less Canadian.

This hasn't been an occasional thing, it's been consistent and frequent through all my years here - although some time ago, I finally stopped trying to fit in.

Hm...I feel a story about this coming on. Thank you for that inspiration.

Anyway - I'm glad you shared this story and that you, too, prefer to embrace being different!