NOT!
Canadians are just as jingoistically, pig-headedly, irrationally proud of
being Canadian as Americans are proud of being American. At least I
am :) Anyone who calls me American 'cause I live in (the best part of)
North America has a double big "Hmph" coming.
I could bring up the classic "22 Minutes" Talking to Americans bits here,
but I won't cause if you're American you won't have seen them. Truly funny,
though.
Man, the off-season is getting long...
Brian
At 04:01 PM 3/1/01 -0500, John Rosevear wrote:
><thickheaded nationalistic rant>
>
>Yeah, Canadians are "Americans" until they're somewhere in Europe or the
>Middle East and trouble starts brewing... then all of a sudden they're
>"Canadians, NOT Americans" to anyone who will listen. Hmph.
>
></thickheaded nationalistic rant>
>
>Regards,
>John Rosevear
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: the rosens [mailto:mikerosen@home.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:15 PM
> > To: Michael Gee
> > Cc: Derek Harling; vintage-race@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Lecture from Uncle Don
> >
> >
> > Michael Gee wrote:
> >
> > > Derek,
> > > According to a US court decision over a decade ago the term
> > "American" also
> > > applies to Canadians. Is this the first step in Manifest Destiny?
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mike
> > >
> >
> > I had an experience when going from the states into Canada
> > Buffalo - when asked
> > my nationality (I'm a US citizen "landed" in Canada) I said
> > American instead of
> > US. The Canadian Customs butthead of the day said " we're all
> > Americans...where were you born".
> > Manifest my ass, they're just trouble makers.
> >
> > Mike (born in the USA) Rosen
Brian Evans
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