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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (56035)	10/8/2009 1:25:47 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217801

Of course the Americans with their 4th July and the Irish Americans and the French and others have always had an anti-British attitude. There was a young woman in Ottawa who told me she was Irish. On questioning, it turned out that a grandmother had been born in Ireland. She was as Irish as I am French which is not much at all. She was just a garden variety Canadian female. The hyphenated American and Canadian seems such a silly idea for natives of the place. "African Americans" have zero in common with Africa [though Obama's father was from Kenya so that's a recent influence but he did circumnavigate the globe as a child so he could reasonably use a hyphen or two but he's really simply American]. The French Canadians were fun because they thought themselves French, but they couldn't even talk french, using joual or however it's spelled. In France, my french used to be able to save me, but it was not much use with the francophones in Canada. A bit like scottish and english I guess - nominally the same language, but not really. Imagine Scots, Indians, Kiwis, Americans in the same room, trying to talk to each other. They'd need subtitles and translators. Iraqi terrorist upset at subtitles: youtube.com The French Canadians fancy themselves as French but they are really just half-pie Yanks. Mqurice