Re: How to use SRQ effectively


"Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ian Davis" <ijdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <0PudndMzTtL_CNPbnZ2dnUVZ_ruknZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dennis <dennybop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know Ian's particular status. I don't think it is relative (for
the
most part) to his posting's here Besides, being a British subject and a
Canadian icitizen s not at all akin to US citizens holding dual
nationality.
What I was referring to is an old, hackneyed tack some Canadians have
taken.
It is to sit comfortably in Manitoba or Ontario etc. and pretend to know
everything about America and Americans and then come up with ways to bash
America and Americans while all the while being pretty much the same as
Americans. Just as fat and materialistic and gas-hogging and
over-indulged.
Most of these types of folks don't know much more than any American about
the true nature of the world. Sometimes Ian reminds me of the Canadians
I
used to see backpacking in Europe. They were quick to wear a Canadian
flag
patch on their gear...not out of national pride, but for fear of being
mistaken as a statesider.

I am proud to wear the maple leaf when travelling. But I've heard it
said
that Americans abroad also wear the Canadian flag for fear of being
mistaken
as statesiders.

The above is absolutely true. Their motives are exactly the same as those
others I have described. Of course not all Canadians or Americans display
the Maple Leaf out of some misguided sense of superiority. Those that do
are no doubt small in number. It's not that the action is reprehensible.
Just not nessesary.

No, I understand. There is a degree of racism here in Australia that marks
Americans as - well, you know the stereotype. I don't know why we don't
paint Canadians with the same brush, but we don't.

The fact that they're mostly caucasion and are part of the Commonwealth? Or
maybe not as many Canadians as Americans make it "down-under?


Mostly we'd start
American-bashing with the Canadian, figuring that they of all people inthe
world, would agree.

I know this isn't right, and the vast majority of Americans aren't
anything like the stereotype, but that is the sad fact that when most
Aussies hear the Australian accent, we immediately stereotype. Even I do
subconciously and then have to work conciously to correct myself.

The harshest criticism of America and Americans I hear comes from Americans
travelling abroad. I run into many Americans that seem to think it is every
other hick American and not them that are out of tune with "culture" and
manners and etc. etc, ad nauseum. It's laughable.

Australians are known to wear the Australian flag so as not to be confused
with English, and the New Zealanders wear kiwis and fern leafs so as not
to be confused with those crass, beer swilling sheep f*ckers that are
Australians, the flag in this case being so similar that that it would
just confuse people more.

What? All Australians aren't just like Bruce and Sheila?

I think thats just the way of it, nationalism is a strange beast.

I think part of it also has to do with the far-flung nations speaking
English I wonder how Peruvians feel about Guatamalens? And how those folks
feel about Argentinians. Are they ashamed of each other and themselves. Or
conversly feeling superior to one another by virtue of accent and
birthplace?

Yowie



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