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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: Amusing things Americans say regarding America |
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Enlighten us a bit. Yup, it's a variation of another thread...first one was about Korea.  |
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HighTreason

Joined: 15 Jun 2007
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'm an American, so I could fill a whole book with these if I had the time. LOL Anyway, maybe I'll try a few...
1. Americans don't need to learn a foreign language because almost everyone in the world can speak English
2. America is a democracy. (It's not, it's a republic)
3. The American Civil War was fought to free enslaved people.
4. If given the chance, almost anyone in the world would want to move to the USA, so we have to tightly control our borders to keep everyone from overpopulating the country.
5. X country would be Soooo screwed if it weren't for our interference at X time in the past. |
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Location: Jongno
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Also an American:
1. It's the greatest country in the history of the world.
2. (sometimes quite seriously from serious ppl): we are the fulfillment of the evolution of society :roflmao
3. American food is best, that's why mcdonald's is everywhere
There are plenty more, just don't have the time right now... |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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"We do not torture." = G.W. Bush
Anytime an American calls another American "Unamerican" for saying something against the first person's views. If anything, it's the namecaller who is unamerican for not respecting the right of the seond person's free speech. |
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SuperFly

Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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America is THE land of the free.
The war on terror.
Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
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Bibbitybop

Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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HighTreason and WayneHead: Great job.
This is a bit different, but we Americans refer to black/African people around the world as African-Americans. Even those that were born and live in Europe. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Canadians:
- We're loved all around the world! Put a Canadian flag on your backpack and people will beg you to marry their daughters!
- We're intelligent! Not like Americans.
- We're very in tune with the environment. Not like Americans.
- We're polite. Not like Americans.
- We know geography! Not like Americans.
- The Avro Arrow was the greatest plane ever made and those dirty Americans stole our dream from us!
- The phone and basketball and baseball are Canadian inventions! |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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The American Dream
I love what George Carlin said about this. Something like "The American Dream. Ah, yes, you have to be dreaming to believe it." |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Canadians:
"Canadians love peace, not like those war-mongering Yanks!"
Aug. 1914: Canada enters WW1(as part of Br. Empire)
Apr. 1917: U.S. joins war on the Allied side
Sept. 1939: Canada declares war on Germany
Dec. 8, 1941: U.S. declares war on Japan(but not Germany or Italy) |
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kat2

Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Bibbitybop wrote: |
This is a bit different, but we Americans refer to black/African people around the world as African-Americans. Even those that were born and live in Europe. |
Really, I don't think so. They would be African or African-Germans or French Africans or whatever. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Bibbitybop wrote: |
HighTreason and WayneHead: Great job.
This is a bit different, but we Americans refer to black/African people around the world as African-Americans. Even those that were born and live in Europe. |
I was just thinking how the term African American should be discontinued. Black Americans should be just called Americans.
If people want to continue using the term African America, then to be fair, white Americans should be called European Americans. |
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kat2

Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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I think its b/c of this hyped up PC crap that everyone is pushing these days. So, when yo uask about someone's race, its no longer OK to say Black, you ahve to say African american. But I'm described as white, so why can't they be black? Anyway, calling blacks simply American doesn't cut it when you trying to distinguish race.
I hate PC. |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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"What weight-control problem?"
"Independence and freedom are what we're all about. Personal responsibility? What's that? I don't see it in the Declaration so I don't haveta worry about it."
"I am a unique, strong and intelligent individual and no man or nation is better than me! Hey...cool tattoos and piercings! I wanna get one just like that!"
-Me, American and a veteran |
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BuHaoChi
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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