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My first Wife, Roberta Barber, was descended from English, Irish, French Scottish and Naragansett Indian. Add to that Russian-Jewish and Italian catholic(my heritage) and you come up with three kids (ages 49 44 and 40) who have trouble thinking o themselves as anything, BUT, Americans. Well. maybe Yankees, also. But, that too (Yankee, Dam-Yankee and Rebels) has to stop.

For my foreign national Friends here in the Mudcat, YANKEES only live in "New England", a region containing the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Masachusetts. New Hampshire.and Vermont. "Dam-Yankees" is what the citizens of what once was "The Confederate States of America". during our "Civil War" call anyone from other than the old "Confederacy". However, real YANKEES don't object if someone from another nation refer to all Americans as, "Yanks". I'm sure that someone from "Bury Saint Edmond or "Ipswich" wouldn't object if an American, Canadian or Aussie called all Englishmen, "Anglo-Saxons". Which a lot of us do. Britt's would probably excuse it with an "Oh! Well, they don't know any better" as we do with you lot calling us all Yanks.. But, amongst ourselves, THIS SHIT HAS GOT TO STOP

And, this whole planet will never reach it's full potential until we're all Human Beings or People, and we have an Earth-wide language. (which, from my point of view ) appears to be "English".

Hey, The European common Market, it's trend of finlly having a common currency and the cross chnnel tunnel sre mighty large steps in the right direction. LETS HAVE THREE CHEERS FOR OUR EURO-FRIENDS WHO ARE ACCOMPLISHING MORE FOR WORLD UNITY AND AN END TO VIOLENCE AS A NATIONAL POLICY, THAN HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED IN ALL OF OUR HISTORY, HIP-HIP HOORAY, HIP-HIP HOORAY, HIP-HIP HOORAY.

God Bless all of you (and us too)