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

[ThosStew@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/28/2002 6:30:45 PM, owen@permafrost.net writes:

>Except that other countries don't usurp the continent's name.=20

I hate to be the bearer of shocking bad news, guys, but this horse has been=20
dead longer than the Byerly Turk. You'll no more get  "American" to apply=20
from Baffin Bay to the Straits of Magellan than you will get "gay" to mean=20
cheerful or find young Vaxen mooing in corporate data centers. The=20
compensation is, Canadians are taking over the U.S. (that's the United State=
s=20
of America, not the United States of Mexico, or the United States of Brasil,=
=20
or any of the other united stateses out there) without Americans even being=20
aware of it. There are 3 or 4 Canadian CEOs of American companies, there's=20
Peter Jennings, Donald Sutherland,   3/4 of the time when you see Chicago in=
=20
the movies, it's really Toronto, etc. The Canadian conspiracy has been so=20
exceptionally clever=E2=80=94only the occasional long O in project and proce=
ss, or=20
the infamous oot in out and about give it away=E2=80=94that Americans failed=
 to=20
recognize it even after Matt Stone's and Trey Parker's expose and clarion=20
call to action.

Tom