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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Personally, I don't see the reason to strongly identify with "American" at all. As a Canadian, I often find myself waking up to this occasionally....
"What? Oh, I, uh, I'm a... Canadian! Yeah...." (Oh, heh,  he wanted to know my nationality....)
Oh, and, Crompsie, you should come to Toronto. Plenty of opportunity to "mix it up" here. |
It's not something that I think of on a regular basis. In fact, it's not something I really think of until a conversation like this comes up. However...it does tend to come up more often than I'd like.
When I lived in NC, I had a friend who adamantly called himself an African American and was kind of offended by the word "black". I asked him why it was such a big deal and he never gave me a satisfactory answer. I really think it is a cultural thing...America being a melting pot and whatnot.