Canadians are more polite on Twitter, Americans more negative — study looked at 40M tweets

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Bryor Snefjella, Daniel Schmidtke and Victor Kuperman analyzed over 40,000 tweets, and found that Canadians may be constructing their “nice” identities through language.

“‘Don’t just look at study and say ‘Ah, of course, Canadians talk nice because they’re nice and Americans talk rudely because they’re rude.’ We’re saying exactly not that. What we’re arguing for is the possibility of an identity construction strategy through language.’ […]”

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