Do you call yourself an American?

[Ruckus]

Canadians call you folks Americans, but many call your country "the States." However, it's used more of a short or Canadian colloquialism.

I never say that I'm travelling to America; it's always "the States" and sometimes "the US."

I wholly agree here.  I may state that I am American when asked what nationality I am, but when asked where I'm from, the first thing that comes out usually is "The States."

[Jaimoe]

i used to get annoyed, especially around here, irish-amer, ital-amer, germ-amer, then you have the puerto ricans and the new yoricans, etc--it's like come on...we were all born here! BUT then i realized i was just jealous because i'm a midwestern mutt.

Canada encourages immigrants to keep their heritage, so it's very common to hear Chinese-Canadian, Indian-Canadian, Native-Canadian etc...

Yesterday 15,000 Sri Lankan Tamils (mostly immigrants) held an all-day protest at the provincial government's parliment headquarters regarding the plight/slaughter of their people in their native country. It was a peaceful demonstration (the third in a week), but it did cause traffic snares in downtown Toronto. Many younger Tamils were born in Toronto, but the ones interviewed all said: "my homeland" or "back home." I'm not sure if the one's interviewed see themselves as Sri Lankan-Canadian, which is exactly what they are. Toronto is home to the largest Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka, over 200K.

Anyway, we are all immigrants and nationality debates can get emotionally-charged.

[Jaimoe]

Canadians call you folks Americans, but many call your country "the States." However, it's used more of a short or Canadian colloquialism.

I never say that I'm travelling to America; it's always "the States" and sometimes "the US."

Yeah, but you are distinguishing between what you call people and what you call a place

Yes.

[Sassbox]

I refer to myself as American.  I don't know if that's correct, however, since one side of my family was here before it was America and the other side (besides Mom) has never set foot on US soil.  Hmmmm.

half native american, half japanese (?)

The side here before it was the US is French and German (technically, I guess that's 1/4 and 1/4) and the other side is Filipino.  Hell, now I'm all kinds of confused!  :D

[Jaimoe]

Well, my mom is half Irish, half Scotish and my dad's family was from England (back in the late 1800s). However, I just say I'm Canadian and so does my mom.

[.Walt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdB1v6EtlSc

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdB1v6EtlSc[/media]

[Jaimoe]

What about that horrid Lee Greenwood song?

[.Walt]

What about that horrid Lee Greenwood song?

;D
nothing  

[BH]

Could Neil have actually been referring to Peru?  :o :o

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMmSU88PdA[/media]

[BH]

While we are at it, who the hell decided that the globe should have North America on the top and not the bottom?

[Taterbug]

I'm only American from the waist up  ;).

[BH]

I'm only American from the waist up  ;).

Everything else is from Uranus?

[Penny Lane]

i used to get annoyed, especially around here, irish-amer, ital-amer, germ-amer, then you have the puerto ricans and the new yoricans, etc--it's like come on...we were all born here! BUT then i realized i was just jealous because i'm a midwestern mutt.

Canada encourages immigrants to keep their heritage, so it's very common to hear Chinese-Canadian, Indian-Canadian, Native-Canadian etc...

Yesterday 15,000 Sri Lankan Tamils (mostly immigrants) held an all-day protest at the provincial government's parliment headquarters regarding the plight/slaughter of their people in their native country. It was a peaceful demonstration (the third in a week), but it did cause traffic snares in downtown Toronto. Many younger Tamils were born in Toronto, but the ones interviewed all said: "my homeland" or "back home." I'm not sure if the one's interviewed see themselves as Sri Lankan-Canadian, which is exactly what they are. Toronto is home to the largest Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka, over 200K.

Anyway, we are all immigrants and nationality debates can get emotionally-charged.

i have always felt bad for the Tamils but to me that's always been like the Gaza Strip, they'll never stop fighting and even after the declare a cease fire, in 2 years it's starts up again. i understand they want autonomy but they've been suicide bombing and killing innocent civilians for a long time (i guess both sides but from what i've read, more so the Tigers) sorry for the tangent. jaimoe-i had no idea they all settled in toronto area, i always figured they went to india but that really doesn't make sense.

[Penny Lane]

I'm only American from the waist up  ;).

Everything else is from Uranus?

8-) 8-)

[Taterbug]

I'm only American from the waist up  ;).

Everything else is from Uranus?

When I dance I have GREAT  rhythm ( just like Paul Rudd ), I would consider it an American dance.  And the moves are all above the waist.  What can I say.. I was a teenager in the 80's.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aetkvFu1EYo[/media]

[Jaimoe]

i used to get annoyed, especially around here, irish-amer, ital-amer, germ-amer, then you have the puerto ricans and the new yoricans, etc--it's like come on...we were all born here! BUT then i realized i was just jealous because i'm a midwestern mutt.

Canada encourages immigrants to keep their heritage, so it's very common to hear Chinese-Canadian, Indian-Canadian, Native-Canadian etc...

Yesterday 15,000 Sri Lankan Tamils (mostly immigrants) held an all-day protest at the provincial government's parliment headquarters regarding the plight/slaughter of their people in their native country. It was a peaceful demonstration (the third in a week), but it did cause traffic snares in downtown Toronto. Many younger Tamils were born in Toronto, but the ones interviewed all said: "my homeland" or "back home." I'm not sure if the one's interviewed see themselves as Sri Lankan-Canadian, which is exactly what they are. Toronto is home to the largest Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka, over 200K.

Anyway, we are all immigrants and nationality debates can get emotionally-charged.

i have always felt bad for the Tamils but to me that's always been like the Gaza Strip, they'll never stop fighting and even after the declare a cease fire, in 2 years it's starts up again. i understand they want autonomy but they've been suicide bombing and killing innocent civilians for a long time (i guess both sides but from what i've read, more so the Tigers) sorry for the tangent. jaimoe-i had no idea they all settled in toronto area, i always figured they went to india but that really doesn't make sense.

They didn't all settle in Toronto. I believe there's big communities in Montreal and Vancouver too. Toronto has the largest gathering. Same with Italians and Chinese (outside of their native countries). Hell, there's nearly 500K Italians and Chinese in Toronto.

The Canadian federal government sees the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist organization, so are reluctant to even acknowledge the demonstrations. Naturally, the opposition party, the Liberals, acknowledge the demonstrations. The Ontario Government, (Liberal Party), support the Tamil's plight, but there's only so much we can do. It's not as if we can roll our tanks off of our "huge fleet" of ships and start up a war that cannot be won. Plus, we are in pretty think in Afghanistan.

[pawpaw]

Yes. Proudly.

[red]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ[/media]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ

;)

[Penny Lane]

i used to get annoyed, especially around here, irish-amer, ital-amer, germ-amer, then you have the puerto ricans and the new yoricans, etc--it's like come on...we were all born here! BUT then i realized i was just jealous because i'm a midwestern mutt.

Canada encourages immigrants to keep their heritage, so it's very common to hear Chinese-Canadian, Indian-Canadian, Native-Canadian etc...

Yesterday 15,000 Sri Lankan Tamils (mostly immigrants) held an all-day protest at the provincial government's parliment headquarters regarding the plight/slaughter of their people in their native country. It was a peaceful demonstration (the third in a week), but it did cause traffic snares in downtown Toronto. Many younger Tamils were born in Toronto, but the ones interviewed all said: "my homeland" or "back home." I'm not sure if the one's interviewed see themselves as Sri Lankan-Canadian, which is exactly what they are. Toronto is home to the largest Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka, over 200K.

Anyway, we are all immigrants and nationality debates can get emotionally-charged.

i have always felt bad for the Tamils but to me that's always been like the Gaza Strip, they'll never stop fighting and even after the declare a cease fire, in 2 years it's starts up again. i understand they want autonomy but they've been suicide bombing and killing innocent civilians for a long time (i guess both sides but from what i've read, more so the Tigers) sorry for the tangent. jaimoe-i had no idea they all settled in toronto area, i always figured they went to india but that really doesn't make sense.

They didn't all settle in Toronto. I believe there's big communities in Montreal and Vancouver too. Toronto has the largest gathering. Same with Italians and Chinese (outside of their native countries). Hell, there's nearly 500K Italians and Chinese in Toronto.

The Canadian federal government sees the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist organization, so are reluctant to even acknowledge the demonstrations. Naturally, the opposition party, the Liberals, acknowledge the demonstrations. The Ontario Government, (Liberal Party), support the Tamil's plight, but there's only so much we can do. It's not as if we can roll our tanks off of our "huge fleet" of ships and start up a war that cannot be won. Plus, we are in pretty think in Afghanistan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE54D1GR20090518

Not sure if it's total victory, but looks like they got the leader:

[goodjam2bn]

While we are at it, who the hell decided that the globe should have North America on the top and not the bottom?

There is no top or bottom, up or down in space. Only out.