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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (20752)	12/21/2002 1:06:47 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Oh well, there are opinions and there are opinions! No, I wasn't brainwashed at all. That's just your biased perception! But most of the Canadians and Americans I personally know are agreed that the Moslems that were born and raised in N. America are very nice people but that a good number of the new arrivals (recent immigrants) are "pricks". I have also noticed that the so-called "pricks" are perceived as such most likely because they were poorly educated and/or their mannerisms were considered to be offensive to the locals and they tended to be taciturn (perhaps this was shyness misunderstood) or gruff, or even supercilious and arrogant. Well, so mujch for that. By the way, 1. not too long ago, a Middle-Easterner would not make eye-contact with an air stewardess shortly after take-off. Result: the stewardess was so scared that she got the pilot to turn around and land; 2. while an air stewardess was taking a Middle Easterner's briefcase away for storage, he said, "Be very careful, it might burst open, or something to that effect. The stewardess thought he meant "it might explode". Result: She got the plane to return to the airport, and the poor Middle-Easterner was arrested and put into the slammer. About 30 years ago, I drove into a campsite for the first time in this country. As I was new to the country and still set in my old ways, I thought it was rude to make eye-contact with my fellow campers. As I was unloading my truck they must have seen a couple of my high-powered rifles. (These were bought in Vancouver a few days earlier for use in the far north.) Result: my neighbours got so scared they took off in record time, leaving behind lots of canned food, a couple of coolers and lots of firewood!!! It was my first and the only peaceful and quiet camping experience I ever had in Canada! LOL!!! You see from all this that Canadians (and Americans, too!) are so very easily spooked for nothing. <gggg> No wonder it's so very easy for them to say all sorts of unkind things about strangers, eh?