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Originally Posted by timmopussycat BTW are there any Canadian moderators to give the necessary leaven in the American lump? | Isn't Canada in North America? | I didn't know USAian was common south of 49. If it's not used by most citiziens of the USA to describe their nationality and "American" is, you were equivocating. |
I know. It's just that I've heard some countries get a little bent when Americans act like they're the only country in the Americas.
Right after 9/11, Celine Dion sang "God Bless America" at some event and I was listening to a radio show where one asked: "Isn't she from Canada?" to which one of the other hosts quipped: "Maybe she means North America."
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Originally Posted by SemperFideles I was born in Canada. Does that count? | I don't think you denizens of south of 49 are allowed dual citizenship. (Texas may be excepted but that is a special case.)
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I don't have citizenship. I was born on an Air Force Base called Goose Bay Labrador, which is in Newfoundland. I was born an American Citizen and my birth certificate is a Department of State Report of Birth Abroad. That base was obviously nice for the Air Force as it was a pretty short trip over the polar ice caps for B-52's to bomb the Soviet Union but it's closed now. My parents have pics of snow piled 6 feet high there and, apparently, the base was practically inaccessible except by plane. I don't remember any of it as we moved when I was only 1.