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"This is part of the reason that Americans are bewildered when non-Americans have opinions about all Americans. On any apartment corridor in the States you can have, per door, a different language, philosophy, level of education, financial condition ... How in the Nine Circles does anyone generalize from that?" -- from the Television Tropes & Idioms wiki entry, 'American Political System'
"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still." -- Edward Estlin Cummings (aka E.E. Cummings or e.e. cummings; b. 1894-10-14, d. 1962-09-03)
[To my countrymen: happy Independence Day! (Happy birthday to
a nation I love enough to want to help make it as great as it thinks
it is, and could be.) And also, happy birthday to
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justgus37!]
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I like your Independence Day birthday hope, and share it.
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Possibly from the actions of Americans generalised from the archetype of the hegemonic American monoculture? Americans who don't admit (or understand) that it exists are sitting in a big messy glob of American privilege.
Hell, everyone else generalises about Canadians, and we're individually weirder than Americans by just about any statistical measure you care to name: more languages spoken, higher proportion of recent immigrants to native-born citizens, more political parties, more time zones, more different types of climate... About the only place where you beat us along those lines is that you have far more regional accents than we do, which is a phenomenon that has been troubling and puzzling linguists for years...