Although most Americans think anti-Americanism is coming from the likes of Pakistan, France and Mexico, it can be also be defined and deep rooted in Canada. Anti-Americanism has a long and colorful history in Canada and in contrast to the expectations from the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, it is apparently alive and well today, albeit in a different and somewhat attenuated form. Anti-Americanism in Canada is divided into two main collective experiences, that of Anglophone and Francophone experiences. Both categories mostly differ only in their histories and early formation. In more recent times, such as the Vietnam war, the war was the first major Cold War crisis in which Canada chose to stand apart from the US, and opposition parties, the media, and others attempted to influence their own government by vigorously criticizing not only the war, but also American society more generally. After the Cold War, it is now well defined that American reliance on military means to resolve political problems clashes with Canada's sense of its own way of promoting international security that has emphasis on peace-keeping, diplomacy, and multi-lateralism.
