Ameircans

[moderateamericain]

Americans

Written by an Australian Dentist...

You probably missed it in the rush of news last

week, but there was actually a report that someone

in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an

offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American,

any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the

following day to let everyone know what an American

is so they would know when they found one.

(Good one, mate!)

To Kill an American

"An American is English, or French, or Italian,

Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek.

An American may also be Canadian, Mexican,

African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,

Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani

or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee,

Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one

of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or

Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more

Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only

difference is that in America they are free to

worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion.

For that he will answer only to God, not to the

government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for

the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in

the history of the world. The root of that

prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence,

which recognizes the God given right of each person

to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out

just about every other nation in the world in their

time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20

years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies

to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had

given more than any other nation to the poor in

Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of

everything...the best products, the best books, the

best music, the best food, the best services. But

they also welcome the least. The national symbol

of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your

tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming

shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact

are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the

morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life

for their families. It's been told that the World

Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different

countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that

aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must.

Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and

Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the

world. But, in doing so you would just be killing

yourself. Because Americans are not a particular

people from a particular place. They are the

embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone

who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an

American.

Please keep this going!

Pass this around the World,

then pass it around again.

It says it all, for all of us.

[PocketRocket]

Seein that this thread is suppose to view "The Lighter Side", I think this will fit in here quite nicely.

I found it good for a few chuckles.

A Cultural Comparison:

Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.

Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad.

Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.

Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.

Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club.

Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of themselves.

Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.

Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to the point of blindness.

Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them.

Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.

Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.

Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels.

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.

Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.

Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball.

Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.

Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in.

Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".

Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English".

Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.

Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in an attempt to be cool.

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.

Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.

Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Americans: Drink weak, bad-tasting beer.

Canadians: Drink strong, bad-tasting beer.

Brits: Drink warm, bad-tasting beer.

Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect.

Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.

Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things.

Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.

[speaker]

hahahahaha, a cultural comparison, sometimes I'm proud to be a citizen of the world.

[Wilber]

Excellent.