Brandee, back away from the American boards. They are a vocal minority.
Those Americans believe that freedom of speech means you get to drag people through the mud with impunity. A lot of them have very narrow views of the world.
We have Cdns like that. The difference is, the Cdn posters rage against all that is Cdn: taxes, gov't, postal rates, etc.
USA is about 90% of my sales. The odd American buys from me and is terrified of dealing with a foreigner but they will try it. The rest, more emblematic of American society, don't care.
Do not focus on the "look at me" crowd, they are in it for the ego driven FB, %, the TPS badge.
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