Americans Pretending To Be Canadians

Hmmm . . .

SOME AMERICANS ARE PRETENDING TO BE CANDADIANS WHEN THEY GO ABROAD.

Some are doing so to get out of awkward social situations where furriners say anti-American things.

If I were in such a situation, and if I were human, I believe my response would be "Go to hell." . . . If I were human.

But if an al-Qa’eda operative pointed a AK-47 in my face and wanted to know my nationality, I’d be sore tempted to do "the maple leaf masquerade."

Don’t know how plausible I’d be doing it. Could probably fake a Bob & Doug Mackenzie accent and speech pattern, but the cowboy hat, duster, and boots (all of which were worn on my most recent foreign trip–to Canada, ironically enough) would be dead giveaways.

Still, Canadians and Americans are similar in many ways.

Was reminded of a bit from the Canadian sketch comedy show The Kids In The Hall (which I didn’t watch but occasionally surfed through) in which a Canadian visiting the Philippines was repeatedly asked if he was an American.

He finally responded: "Noooooo . . . I’m a Canadian. . . . That’s like an American . . . but without the gun."

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

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