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Thread #75274 Message #1321290
Posted By: *daylia*
09-Nov-04 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Why are we generalising about Americans?
Subject: RE: BS: Why are we generalising about Americans?
dianavan, now you've gone and told all our secrets! Listen up folks; with one foot on either side of the fence, this lady knows what she's talking about ;-)
In fact seventy per cent of Americans of voting age didn't vote for Bush
Sheds a bit of a different light on the situation, don't it? Thanks for that, McGrath. And by the way, here's your attribution ...
QUOTATION: As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely biased, as it is in most cases. ATTRIBUTION: John Vorster (1915–1983), South African politician, prime minister. Quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 9, 1969).
Funny, as I re-read my own words above ie People outside the US see the situation there a lot more objectively - (ie minus a whole whack of fear, anger, pride, cultural conditioning etc) I was thinking - right. We have our own whacks of fear, anger, pride, cultural conditioning to contend with instead. *sigh* I felt so much better when I just KNEW I was 100% right ;-)
We Canadians in particular love to feel superior to our bigger, richer, stronger neighbours, and the making of snarky remarks is the only field in which we consistently outstrip them.
Hmmm I can think of a few more, actually;
* shovelling snow * swearing at snow * swearing at snow in awful to godawful French * growing hockey players * growing figure skaters * growing moose * growing polar bears * growing beer * growing peace * growing pot * conceiving kids on ski lifts * conceiving kids in canoes * really gettin Inuit
Ok on that note it's on with the woolies and out the door ... Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon are having this absolutely heavenly menage a trois out there, right now! I kid you not ... check it out!