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From: leblanc@grads.cs.ubc.ca (David LeBlanc)
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Subject: Re: Do unto others... (Re: Internationalist posturings.)
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Date: 4 Dec 88 23:37:45 GMT
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In article <2104@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:

[a bunch of garbled crap in which he attacks not only the poster (which
 is fine), but an entire nation of people]

>I suppose it is a tragedy having to eke out your life with the Canadian
>Inferiority Complex. Perhaps I should take pity on you and your
>countrymen. There are difficulties being a superpower, and it will be
>hard when we join England as the has-beens, but it must be such a terribly
>bitter fate to be a Canadian never-could-have-been.
>
Look pecker-brain (my girlfriend's fave insult) if you want to flame someone,
that's fine, we'll all look on in amusement. But being the brain-dead asshole
that you seem to be, you expand your argument to include the population of
an entire country. It's shit-for-brains like you that have given rise to the
term "ugly American" throughout the entire world. 

Obviously, anyone who doesn't recognize the US as the greatest country in the
world is an inferior being, right? Thank (insert diety of choice here) most
Americans (that I've met) don't share your bigoted attitudes or the joking
generalizations the world uses about the US would be true. Don't get me wrong,
most people think their country is the best and rightly so. But only those 
with IQ's less than their shoe size figure that because they believe it, it 
must be true.

If you want to have an argument with myself, or anyone else, about what the
best country in the world is, than take it to email so others aren't insulted
by your generalizations. Logical discussions about the merits and demerits of
a particular society are fine, but the bigoted drivel you posted is insulting
to myself, and most others as well (I would hope).

As a final note. I feel sorry for you and those like you. You're so busy 
putting down 'inferior' countries and demonstrating your 'superiority' that
you can't realize how diverse and wonderful the world is. I've met people
like you in many places throughout the world. They're always whining that
'these places are uncivilized, they don't act at all like us' and looking for
'good ol American food' (MacDonalds). Too bad.

				David LeBlanc