FROM CANADA: We like so love Americans

National Post (Canada) ^ | March 1, 2003 | Lisa Gabriele

[WaterDragon]

I've always been perplexed by people who say Americans walk around so proud to be Americans and this pi%%es them off.

Aren't other people proud to be their nationalities? Don't they feel their countries are really the best? There are Americans who live elsewhere because they prefer other countries. I assume people from other countries living in America prefer it here.

What's the big deal about this?

Long before America was a superpower people were migrating here in droves.

[Maven]

I suggest you don't do it too long, as you can feel your brain cells begin to die reading Valley Girl speak for an extended duration.

Just for the record - not all Valley Girls speak this way - I don't!

Maven
Spitting distance from the Galleria....

[CobaltBlue]

>>What do you have that you actually made not something given to you by mother nature?<<

Good point. Canada's economy is based on commodities, as are those of most Third World nations.

The Chinese, at least, are eating our lunch at manufacturing.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

I doubt she is an idiot, it was actually a pretty good piece of work, for what it was. Actually, I thought it was a great parody at first, but my outrage over the content overrode my sense of humor re the form...What we consider Valley speak is imitated by Canadian girls too, so she is parodizing her own people as well, intentionally or not.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Nice Florida tan I see!

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Where in the Valley?

I lived in Sepulveda....though some of my neighbors referred to it as Granada Hills...hehe. (It was close to GH, but not GH).

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Ok, you still live there in Sherman Oaks. Sabertooth also lives in Sherman Oaks.

[MattAMiller]

I am TOTALLY sick of hearing how WE think WE are great...I wish the rest of the world would Quit Projecting THEIR feelings onto US.

I agree. But I do understand how foreigners get sick of loud mouths who instantly bray about WWII or whatnot whenever they get opportunity.

There are plenty of people on this forum who seem to think the whole world ought to bend to our will just because we're powerful. People like this tar any effort to lead the world towards doing the right thing because it's the right thing.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

I could not agree more....

[Maven]

Sherman Oaks, fer sure, fer sure. LOL!

Don't you just love all the new place names so people can think they're living somewhere nicer? "Oh, I don't live in North Hollywood - I live in Valley Village." Sheesh.

Except for when I was married, I've lived in the Valley since I was 6 years old - North Hollywood, Van Nuys (brief stint in Panorama City) and Sherman Oaks.

Maven