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Capergirl · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:27 am Post subject:

I think a few of you have taken the author far more literally than I did (and thank you, CS, for sharing the author's name). I don't understand why the mere mention of "America" or the "U.S." is invitation for some to go on a tirade of anti-Americanism. Sure, there are things about the U.S. that I don't like. There are things about every country that I don't like. I'm not about to sit here and list them. What a waste of everybody's time.

That letter was meant to be positive and uplifting. Kudos to all who took it as it was intended.

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I knew a group of Canadian helicopter pilots and they are complete wankers. This doesn't mean that all Canadians are wankers nor all pilots are wankers. Nor even that all Canadian pilots are wankers. Just the ones that fly for the oil companies in Thailand are wankers.

senor boogie woogie · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

Hola!

When I left my mother's body, I became an American, primarily because this is the place that she plopped me out at, and she plopped out of her mother in the same place back in 1931.

I was raised believing that America was the vangurd of freedom and justice in the world.

I was raised on junk food and Van Halen.

I was raised believing "Love it or Leave it."

Then I moved away from the monolith and discovered a world and people outside of my American safe haven. The taste of their forbidden fruits were the tastiest.

I am not an American, I am a Worldian.

Senor

migo · Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 201

migo · Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 201

Yep it is. When you go abroad from Canada and someone finds out about that fact they don't automatically have something against you just because of where you're from.