*This* made me laugh
"Halloween is teaching our kids to be liberals...You're teaching your kids to beg for a handout."
-- Sean Hannity
Oh you(we) wacky Americans.
Jason seems to think I'm American. Technically I am since I have citizenship, but I didn't grow up there, rarely visited or had contact with my family there. My dad is so patriotic he refuses to sing Oh Canada in English.
I can still recite the better part of the I Am Canadian speech.
I think Talking to Americans is hilarious and I hate, hate, hate George Bush and co. (then again, so do many of my relatives...at least the Catholics).
I speak French (enough). Better than most of the locals (who stopped at high school).
I've read Lament for a Nation.
I make that weird Nova Scotia gasp that passes for yes. Well, not really but I don't get freaked out like the foreigns.
Whenever I bring up the subject with Nova Scotias, I'm still an American. What gives? Their ancestors weren't born here either. And I get the feeling if my parents came from any country in the word other than the U.S., I would be a bit more welcome, being as Canada is a multi-cultural nation.
What some people don't get is that not all Americans suck.
And it's not a genetic disposition. Maybe you can get away with assigning personal traits to the population of a country where people have been there for thousands of years, but not here.
Unless you're a First Nation. Those guys are always left out of this debate.
And besides, my family didn't even come from Texas (although someone spread a rumour back home that Mom did. It's here cousin, Lynn, and she moved there as an adult). Not that that should matter, but I do not want to think what I would get if I had come from there.
As for me absorbing the American culture, I wasn't there. My parents weren't exactly indoctrinating me after school each day.
Seriously. I'm Canadian. More some than some of you gits. You only think about your country and your role in it when you want to feel morally superior over not being American.
I bet you think Laval is a type of detergent.
Point is, if I'm not Canadian, how are you?
I don't pick on Torontonians that wear normal clothes and don't look down on eastern Canada.
Well, I wouldn't. I don't really know that many Torontonians. But there must be some....
-- Sean Hannity
Oh you(we) wacky Americans.
Jason seems to think I'm American. Technically I am since I have citizenship, but I didn't grow up there, rarely visited or had contact with my family there. My dad is so patriotic he refuses to sing Oh Canada in English.
I can still recite the better part of the I Am Canadian speech.
I think Talking to Americans is hilarious and I hate, hate, hate George Bush and co. (then again, so do many of my relatives...at least the Catholics).
I speak French (enough). Better than most of the locals (who stopped at high school).
I've read Lament for a Nation.
I make that weird Nova Scotia gasp that passes for yes. Well, not really but I don't get freaked out like the foreigns.
Whenever I bring up the subject with Nova Scotias, I'm still an American. What gives? Their ancestors weren't born here either. And I get the feeling if my parents came from any country in the word other than the U.S., I would be a bit more welcome, being as Canada is a multi-cultural nation.
What some people don't get is that not all Americans suck.
And it's not a genetic disposition. Maybe you can get away with assigning personal traits to the population of a country where people have been there for thousands of years, but not here.
Unless you're a First Nation. Those guys are always left out of this debate.
And besides, my family didn't even come from Texas (although someone spread a rumour back home that Mom did. It's here cousin, Lynn, and she moved there as an adult). Not that that should matter, but I do not want to think what I would get if I had come from there.
As for me absorbing the American culture, I wasn't there. My parents weren't exactly indoctrinating me after school each day.
Seriously. I'm Canadian. More some than some of you gits. You only think about your country and your role in it when you want to feel morally superior over not being American.
I bet you think Laval is a type of detergent.
Point is, if I'm not Canadian, how are you?
I don't pick on Torontonians that wear normal clothes and don't look down on eastern Canada.
Well, I wouldn't. I don't really know that many Torontonians. But there must be some....