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Article: True Americans live in Canada, too.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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Byline: John Gould
All by my self I had noticed the difference. Coming down from Canada after motoring through New Brunswick, we were asked by the United States immigration officer, "Are you an American citizen?" But when we entered Canada on our visit, the Canadian border officer had asked, "Are you a citizen of the United States?" A trifling distinction, maybe, but all the same a difference.
I'd like President Bush, at least, to stop saying "the American people" when he means "the people of the United States." Isn't everybody from Tierra del Fuego north to Pond Inlet an American? It was in Canada many summers ago that I first contemplated this oddity. ...