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From: y7124@dalcs.UUCP (J Gerard Olszowiec)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Canadians are not Americans
Message-ID: <631@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 11:57:50 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 19 11:57:50 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 08:38:02 EST
Organization: Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S.
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     In a recent article by Sharon Badian in net.singles I take exception
to the following:
 
>          American women ( as in U S) ...
 
     Boy, this makes me mad.  Contrary to the U S doctrine of Manifest
Destiny every man, woman, and child that lives on North Amecica does not
consider themselves Americans.  I live in Canada, and therefore am
Canadian.  I live in North America therefore I am North American. I 
do not live in the U S of A, therefore I am not American. 
 
     This type of statement causes me to sweat profusely under my thermal
underwear, stomp my muck-lucks in the snow, and generally spit hockey
pucks.
 
     How many times have you heard Peter Jennings say:
 
' The small American town of Elliot Lake, Ontario ...'
 or
 
     Tom Brocaw (sp) state:
 
' Thirty five hundred Americans are out of work in Swan Hills, Alberta...'
 
     We non-American North Americans regard 'American' to mean 'American',
( as in U S ) is superfluous.
 
     Be nice to us. Remember, we live between you and the Russians. How
would you like it if we moved?! Alaska would float away!
 
 
                                      - Another Crazy Canuck 
                                             JGO