American-ness [was RE: even my dumb nontechnical anime group gets it -- why don't we?]

[Russell Turpin]

Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>:
>We [Canadians] don't like to be called Americans because
>
>- we don't want to be associated with their foreign policy
>- we don't want to be associated with their protectionist   trade policies
>- we don't want to be associated with their definition of   'the common 
>good'
>- we don't want to be associated with their mass media

Well, shit, neither do I.

This makes Canadians sound like a third party. Kind of
like the Greens or Libertarians. Maybe when y'all become
the 51st through 54th states, we can do that for you.
"The Canadian American Party." Yeah, I kind of like the
sound of that.

(Hee, hee.)
(Ducking.)


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