🚀 go-pugleaf

Rebecca wrote:
> catchme wrote:
>> we obey the laws wherever we go, and set the proper example of abiding
>> citizens, mindful that when we are in foreign land we are representing
>> our Nation by our actions.
> 
> You're saying that you're not a Canadian? That's the opposite of the 
> Canadians I've seen. 
> 
> 
> 

now now you dont want me slogging out the dirty details of the fine 
exemplary behaviour i witnessed amongst the americans up here.
A rather mild criticism that a British voice actress made over the 
London ("to the American in the back, you are talking much too loud") 
tube is the very least that i can dredge up about them.
Why IS it that whenever an American steps out of his country, he expects 
both to be bowed to as if he were superior- AND find solace in things 
that remind him of home rather than immerse with the locals?
Why too must he try so hard to stand out?
by and large americans act like they have an inferiority complex.
Bluster and boast as loud as you please, and when someone comes by to 
obligingly wipe the chip off your shoulder- run sniveling to your 
government that you werent respected.
Not that your government is any better- half the nations that you trade 
with have been enemies in recent years, and another third still are!
of the "friends" you have remaining....?
rather than wait to you point your guns our way, we are already asking 
our governments to stand up for our own sovereignty and not give your 
government any more quarter!

-- 
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States,
Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,
ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

-Walt Whitman, 1860