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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:53 pm
by [SGC_ReplicĂ…tors]
Canadian
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:22 pm
by Stricken
USA USA USA!!
more precisly Pennsylvania
ZS Agent281 wrote:
I am another American. Californian to be precise, but my family is from Spain. (Prefer that to being American...)
your such a communist

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:26 pm
by ZS Agent281
Communist, NO! Not even socialist... However, anti-imperialist yes. American history is so self-indulgent, read a textbook and it is like kissing your own ass...

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:21 pm
by thunder
ZS Agent281 wrote:Communist, NO! Not even socialist... However, anti-imperialist yes. American history is so self-indulgent, read a textbook and it is like kissing your own ass...

hey speaking of american history kissing their own ass, how many americans recall the war of 1812???? i bet more canadians recall it then american

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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:32 pm
by ZS Agent281
I do, most "decisive" battle of it was two weeks later... That is how it is remembered here.
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:34 pm
by Ancient Lord
Lisboa, Portugal
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:36 pm
by thunder
you know i figured you would know about it. i like to bring it up when americans call canadians weak, just to enjoy their remarks
many of the southerners i speak to not only never herd of it but dont belive that it happened
"and the whitehouse burned burned burned and were the ones that did it. "yah um forget which band sings the "war of 1812"
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:47 pm
by ZS Agent281
That is because we burnt down the Canadian Paralimentary building, correct?
{I know it was an offical building, but I am not sure which or where...}
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:49 pm
by thunder
why does that stop people from knowing about the war of 1812?
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:09 pm
by ZS Agent281
No reason why that should stop them, no reason for anyone not to know anything of their nations history, despite the iffy details. It prevents blind patriotism, a certain cuase of embarresment when you meet a Canadian.
The reason I don't agree with America, or at least it doesn't sit right with me, is that it has very iffy practices that can be hypocritical sometimes.
For instance, we went in to Cuba during the Sp-Am War in 1898 and denounced the Spanish concentration camps as barabaric. Then after we secured the Philipines, when the insurgents started to revolt, we used concentration camps again.
Sometimes it has to do more with the heroic spin we put on things. Take the Open Door policy, we have no spheres of influence in China, so what do we decide? That is right, we don't want anyone to have them. Yes it was probably for the best, but what truely irks me is the fact that people make it seem more righteous then it was.
I don't hate America, but I disagree with blind patriotism. That really bothers me, any sort of leap of faith or blind obiedence does.
{If that was too political just delete it or mod it. Either way just don't lock the thread if this spirals out of control...}
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:12 pm
by thunder
ZS Agent281 wrote:{If that was too political just delete it or mod it. Either way just don't lock the thread if this spirals out of control...}
dont you dare, that was a very well done highly informative post and i think it should remain
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:14 pm
by ZS Agent281
Ah, muchos gracias.

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:15 pm
by The Space Pope
I'm from the US. ^_^
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:16 pm
by thunder
where abouts claifornia?
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:19 pm
by ZS Agent281
Southern California, near LA.