Re: We are all Americans! (WAS: Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?)

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:23:42 -0600, "JRO"
<ogl...@mail.fullnet.net-remove> wrote:

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>LDB <She...@excite.com> wrote in message news:g9R5OH=JZ9...@4ax.com...
>
>>
>> I can't believe you actually wrote that Johnny. I'm Canadian, you
>> know, that bigger country right above most of yours. If usenet isn't
>> international then I guess that includes me.
>>
>> ldb
>
>Last time I checked, Canada was still part of North America. That makes
>you American, too. Since major portions of Canada have threatened to join
>the USA, several times in the past and recent past, I see little reason
>to bother excluding Canada from being "American".
>

Actually its no bother at all. Though Quebec may yack about joining
the US they have done nothing about it. I doubt the Americans would
want to support them the way the rest of Canada is doing so really
they are very unlikely to do more than yack from time to time. 

I'm proud to be Canadian and I don't see myself as American at all. By
your theory you would have to call the Mexicans Americans too. In
spite of free trade and all the political yap I don't see Mexicans
being thought of as your "fellow Americans". 

As long as Canada and Mexico are not part of your nation (national)
they are part of the international group. 

The joke is that I've been living down here in the US for a few months
and when I hear Canada mentioned at all its about cold weather. We
seldom make it into the American news. Most Americans have no idea
what my country is like. Some have even asked which state Ontario is.
They are much more likely to know Toronto than any province. I expect
thats due to baseball more than any education they received. 

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