im from new england

i live in northern maine now with acadians

i was working with an acadian named phil pulling up a carpet to help my friend's cousin and phil slashed the box cutter at me kind of accidently and i said to myself 'this person hates me'

then i wondered why he hated me, i had never seen him before in my life

later i was helping our mutual friend clean out his gutters in the rain, and phil says something in the garage while we were resting

i dont remember exactly what he said, just that he refered to me as 'the brit'

i had never considered myself british before and i didnt realize it untill much later,

but acadians hate brits because of the french and indian war that happened before the american revolution

mostly because of le grand derangement

the u s has fought in many wars