Originally posted by CanadaguyCanada is not American but is in America!!!!!!!!!!
[b]CANADA IS AMERICA YOU HIDEOUS ORANGUTANG !
Dear Mr. Celticcountry
I regret to infom you that Canada is NOT American. We are an independant colony. The Queen is still our head of state. We never has to fight for our independance, we asked for it. We use metric, although we still drive on the right side of the road(by right I mean n ...[text shortened]... and our beer is rated one of tops in the world(not that I would drink any of it from anywhere😛)[/b]
Originally posted by Bad wolfPlease say USA citizens not americans!!
Ignorance left right and centre, one of the many problems with America. Arrogance, Americans think they can tell everyone what is right and wrong, you nearly speak the english language, not the other way round. Don't be hypocritical, America bickers over anything and everything (with lawyers), comments like indesion over joining a common european currency ...[text shortened]... cide if the majority of people wanted to or not.
Feel free to mock America with its problems.
Originally posted by Talem16But that's just plain stupid.
Please say USA citizens not americans!!
Everybody knows that people from the US are called Americans. You can't go around calling them USA citizens? That just sounds silly.
I can imagine that "Americans" can be upsetting to the rest of the people living in the Americas, but face it...you're run by Washington anyway.
But, just for arguments sake, surely USAnian sounds much better than USA citizens. And it has a fundementalist ring to it as well.
Originally posted by celticcountryI do not know why we did not go fight the Japanese and let Lord British take out the Hun if he is such great warrior. We speak English because we voted too. German was number two in the voteing.
England has never lost a war.
Americans speak English.
I think that denote the winners.
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please stop with this German nearly became the official language of America c*ap, its just a myth made up by Germans to build up their own national identity in the 19th Century.
"The myth that German almost became the official language of the United States persists even today. Although the notion was widely spread by German travel authors of the 1840s, the vote never came to the congressional floor. Colonial leaders had no tolerance for the German language. During the war of 1812, only 9% of the U.S. population was German. Officials ignored German-language farmers in Virginia who petitioned the House of Representatives in 1794 for a German translation of a law booklet."
(http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/culture/ger_americans/paper.html)
"There was no vote on German as the official language of the United States. The Library of Congress has investigated and dismissed this patently absurd story as has Prof. Henry A. Pochmann in German Culture in America, 1600-1900 (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1957).
Furthermore, even in Pennsylvania (where Germans made up 33.3 percent of the population in 1790), no such or similar vote occurred, despite persistent rumors otherwise. (See Albert Bernhardt Faust, The German Element in the United States, New York, Steuben Society of America, 1927, vol. 2, pp. 652-653.
(http://www.us-english.org/inc/official/about/misconceptions/german.asp)
Andrew