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Grr... I don't know what First meant, but I'm eager and willing to fight him over it anyway.
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Well, if we can't call you "Europeans", then I demand that you stop calling us "Americans". Hell, that groups two continents into one entity. At least Europe is just one, and a fairly small one, at that.
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I admit it we can be very egocentric (it has been slowly breed into us). You have to admit though we have one of the better countries in the world. As for the grouping of calling all of you foreign types Europeans that is what you do to us. We live in an area classified as North America but we live in different states and call each other by those names, Oregonian, Mississippian, etc...you get the point. Now about our "Football" I resent being called a bunch of nancies because we wear pads. I've played both types of football they are both equally hard. One requires running endurance and lots of coordination skill. The other requires physical endurance ie. the ability to withstand lots of punishment and yes you need to have a brain to play this game, the idea of brain dead jocks is really outdated. As for the statement about the irish......I'm going to have to agree. Oh by the way if you really want this country back your welcome to try and take it. You might find that task a little on the hard side. We are arrogent for a reason.
(Just so everyone knows I am having fun with this)
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Of course, we Americans (er, US Americans), also tend to group ourselves as "European Americans" ... I myself would be a "Swedish American", and dammit, I *want* that distinction!
(that's from the area known as Acadia, that being the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . (That's in Canada, got it? It's not all snow and igloos up here)
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[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited November 17, 2000).]
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MsChris: I don't know if you've been around long enough to realize it, but this sort of nationalism is normal 'round here. Don't worry about it. :-)
------------------ "What he did to that walrus gentle-man was inexcusable." -T. Herman Zweibel on "Mr. Woodrow Wood-pecker", The Onion, 7-Nov-2000
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It's a cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. Anyway, in it one of the characters has declared himself a sovereign nation, and that claim is honored because he has a small but powerful nuclear device strapped to his back.
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