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SUPER Rant WAY OT: You Americans...



I'm just too tired for this, in the midst of the whole holiday vs Christmas
and what traditional symbols are or are not allowed, and the extra time and
effort required to prepare the household piled on top of work. And work,
yeah, I don't really even work anyway according to the general public
(underworked and overpaid, like all teachers). And let's not discuss the
inlaws at Christmas. They're Ukranian-Canadian, or whatever. My big fat
Ukranian Christmas argument.

And I'm not sure if I can wave the "flag with the maple leaf and the two
red stripes" because it might be misconstrued as support for the non-native
side of the local land dispute, "the flag formerly referred to as American
but shall now be called the stars and stripes for clarity" is permissable
and perfectly safe to display on both sides of that issue though. And don't
even get going on nations, we have so many nations within nations that I
can't keep track, is it Quebec or only francophones in the latest
incarnation? And what of members of the Mohawk nation who speak French and
live in Quebec? Nation within a nation within a nation in America I suppose.

And how am I to take "Cathyland"? I can't help but feel that it's a huge
jab. Should I just leave the list because I'm too vocal/don't fit the
demographic/don't "feel" American even though the United States of
Americans think I am one? I'm North American, no disputing that, though
locally I'm considered a European, true North Americans have status cards.

All I know is that I have a pile of baking to do, which means I can't work
on my cars. Kids are insane to deal with at this time of the year, the new
year will hold even more fun with text messaging and iPods and all sorts of
other distractions from learning, and I'll be facing yet more arguments.

Find me a nice cave, and I'll just crawl into it and not worry about being
American or Canadian or both or neither. BTW the Maple Leaf tattoed on my
foot is staying. I'll take it into the cave with me.

Oh,    :)

Cathy



On 5:19 pm 12/21/06 "Patrick Bureau" <patrick.bureau@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eh, I am Kana'tian (Kana'ta is the original word meaning village)
>
> I Patrick, born from immigrant french in canada, now living in Texas
> in fear of never seeing snow ever again, but remains happy riding his
> motorcycle  over 300 days in the year ...
>
> Ok back to your regularly scheduled debate..
>
>
> On 12/21/06, Brian Haygood <haygood@myway.com> wrote:
> >
> >  OK, I'll jump into the fire on this one.
> >
> >
> >
> >  I personally find it a little short-sighted when anyone uses the
> term "American" to try and label someone as being from the United
> States.  This was kinda drilled into me when I started travelling to
> Central America and South America.  If you go --
>
>  {OMG THAT WAS A HUMOUGOUS SNIP}
> ____
> Patrick Bureau,
> 85 VW Scirocco, 01 Jeep Cherokee, 05 Honda Reflex Sport
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