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Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
8. Americans are poorly educated, Bible-thumping gun nuts. (Whereas we are better-educated Bible-thumping gun nuts, although some of the guns and all of the Bible colleges are regulated.) |
God bless America
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| The Scotts are sinewy, ginger and moody and don't seem to like us. |
Four generations separated and dilluted by Irish, Prussian, and Cherokee, but it still describes me to a tee. Especially the not-liking-you-part. No offense. We're still irked by that whole King George thing. Same is true for the Scots, but I do believe that it was a different king then
Funny you should say that Canadians are better educated. Back during the 2004 U.S. election, I knew a Canadian exchange student who loathed the fact that I was voting red. Her particular complaint with the administration was that it did not have government health care like Canada. She then gave me a sob story about how her cousin died because he couldn't get treatment. "Where did he live?" I asked. "Canada. But he couldn't get treatment there, and he couldn't afford treatment in America, and so he died." I didn't pursue the subject any further.
Yeah, that's purely anecdotal, but such is the nature of stereotypes  |
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