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Originally Posted by issybird
Wow. Why should you adjust your phrasing, from describing yourself within your own country with the appellation in general use? Who's being the rude and arrogant, uh, alien? *cough* Whatever happened to, "When in Rome"?
Seriously, if someone pulled that on me, my reaction would be along the lines of, "Go with that, honey, if it makes you happy and good luck with forcing a change on over 300 million of my countrymen. But you're opening yourself up to being misunderstood at a minimum as well as to the charge of being too dim to get that words can have different legitimate meanings, eh?"
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
My personal opinion is if someone doesn't like the way I say or do something, that is their problem not mine.
Sorry was interrupted.
They can either get over it or live with it. I won't know the difference anyway.
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I work with her daily. It's a small courtesy, to my way of thinking. I don't have a correlating example, of something that would go in the other direction (in which I'd be offended or whatever, by something a Canadian person would say), offhand, but to me, it's
very minor skin off my nose. If it were something else, and it was a big deal to ME, sure, I'd be "tough," but
it's not. It's just remembering to say one thing, when accustomed to saying another.
I don't mind small amendments, for the sake of politeness. Now, I'll debate big topics to the death, if they matter on a much larger scale, and are being PC-ed to death, (non-existence, because folks don't want to be labeled bigots or racists or sexists or you-name-it), but this just
isn't one of them. Canadians and other folks on this side of the globe consider themselves "Americans" as much as we do. And if you think about it--North America, South America--they have every right.
My post was actually
more about the fact that other than "American," there really isn't any good short appellation. "United States Citizen" is just ridiculously long. US-er is, as I mentioned, bad and unfortunate at the same time. And as I mentioned, she's not remotely PC. At ALL. So...as I said, seems a small enough thing to be courteous about it.
It's not quite "when in Rome," because we're ALL in Rome--no?
Hitch