<thickheaded nationalistic rant>
Yeah, Canadians are "Americans" until they're somewhere in Europe or the
Middle East and trouble starts brewing... then all of a sudden they're
"Canadians, NOT Americans" to anyone who will listen. Hmph.
</thickheaded nationalistic rant>
Regards,
John Rosevear
> -----Original Message-----
> From: the rosens [mailto:mikerosen@home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 3:15 PM
> To: Michael Gee
> Cc: Derek Harling; vintage-race@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Lecture from Uncle Don
>
>
> Michael Gee wrote:
>
> > Derek,
> > According to a US court decision over a decade ago the term
> "American" also
> > applies to Canadians. Is this the first step in Manifest Destiny?
> > Cheers,
> > Mike
> >
>
> I had an experience when going from the states into Canada
> Buffalo - when asked
> my nationality (I'm a US citizen "landed" in Canada) I said
> American instead of
> US. The Canadian Customs butthead of the day said " we're all
> Americans...where were you born".
> Manifest my ass, they're just trouble makers.
>
> Mike (born in the USA) Rosen
|