We are (not) all Americans

[reality_hammer]

Evidently some reality challenged bureaucrats in Michigan have decided that our (as in American) use of the term "American" just isn't fair to the rest of the continent.
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Comments

[luprand]

This reminds me of someone in a chat room once ... New York native, but I made the mistake of referring to her as an American.

"Don't call me that! I hate this country, I'm not an American!"
"But you live in America."
"I live in a house! Does that make me a Housican?"

This is definitely a Housican moment.

[felinoid]

It makes him a home owner and if his house has a name it makes him a resedent of (house name) House.

However he can only be a housian if he lives under a governed body named "house" (City, State, Nation, thug group, cult etc)

[lightningbaron]

Next time tell them to please hand in their citizenship papers at the soonest possible convenience, go to an airport, and get the heck out of here. If not, you can call them what they are: hypocritical freeloaders.

[allykatt]

i generally refer tothose types as "too cowardly to put their money where their mouth is and move to canada or france"

i shorten this to "morons"

[dbroussa]

It reminds me of a scene from Sharpe's Eagle where he first meets the Tory Captain Leroy who when Sharpe says

"Oh, you're an American."

He corrects him sharply.

"No Sir, I'm a Virginian."

So was she a New Yorker? I live in Texas and can refer to myself as a Texan anywhere in the world thanks to Dallas