Politics and religion.

**RICHARD** · 10-24-2012, 09:46 AM

I am really interested in the elections and want to see someone blow a circuit on one of the 'news' cable channels.

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Again, the people that I find to be the most annoying are the people with accents who THINK they know gobs about Americans and our politics.

The one clown on MSNBC makes me laugh, he is such an arse scratch.

**lizbud** · 10-24-2012, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

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Again, the people that I find to be the most annoying are the people with accents who THINK they know gobs about Americans and our politics.

Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 10-24-2012, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by lizbud

Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?

Interesting example of xenophobia, isn't it? There is a Brit on Fox News who is also an "arse scratch" but I never questioned his right to have opinions about the US or its politics! (And I the right to disagree with his opinions!)

I wonder if that means someone with an "American accent" is not allowed to have opinions about the people and politics of other countries? <<head shake>>

**Karen** · 10-24-2012, 05:36 PM

Everyone has an accent of some sort! And seeing as we are a nation of immigrants, whether via the land bridge from Siberia thousands of years ago, or by plane or boat more recently, or any time in-between!

**RICHARD** · 10-24-2012, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

Is it not possible to have an accent and be an American at the same time?

No, not the person I am talking about. It's an intolerable turd that takes every opportunity to insult people.

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If you really want to know just how intolerable and hateful people are, drop a few political views into the mix and you will see their constitution.

Especially the people who constantly use the catchphrases that are 'hot' at the moment.

Like 'battleground states' and 'war against women'.

I figured a war on women was akin to getting shot in the head because you wanted a free society/state for you and your sisters.

...and I always figured a 'battleground states' are places where the "Civil War" was fought, not some struggle for an office where you jerk people around by promising them crap that you cannot do by yourself.

Knock yourselves out fighting pretend scuffles.

**Edwina's Secretary** · 10-24-2012, 08:21 PM

Wow...I know lots of "intolerable turds" who don't have foreign accents. Ann Coulter comes quickly to mind - just before Sean Hannity.

(Ann did a lovely piece recently on "retards"

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But it never occurred to me to denigate all people with "American" accents because of those nasty pieces of work.

(p.s. Since Mexico and Canada are also on the North American continent...aren't their accents "American" too?)

**Karen** · 10-24-2012, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

Wow...I know lots of "intolerable turds" who don't have foreign accents. Ann Coulter comes quickly to mind - just before Sean Hannity.

(Ann did a lovely piece recently on "retards"

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But it never occurred to me to denigate all people with "American" accents because of those nasty pieces of work.

(p.s. Since Mexico and Canada are also on the North American continent...aren't their accents "American" too?)

Central and South Americans are also "Americans" if one is considering it by continent ... as a gentleman from Costa Rica pointed out to me when I was a kid!

**Edwina's Secretary** · 10-24-2012, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Karen

Central and South Americans are also "Americans" if one is considering it by continent ... as a gentleman from Costa Rica pointed out to me when I was a kid!

When I lived in Mexico I learned to refer to myself as from the United States rather than (or perhaps in addition to!) America. It was pointed out to me that the US does not own the continent!

**cassiesmom** · 10-25-2012, 05:41 AM

I'm an American and I have a Chicago accent. I found this out working with a medical director from Wisconsin. We found it out with words ending in -ake (take, mistake, fake -- he would say taaaaaake it, lots of emphasis on the vowel. Not around here, it's more like tay-k (tay-k yer coat off and set awhile)...
and what is this thing called? The Wisconsin office called it a bubbler, but I know it as a water fountain. I think bubblers and water fountains are two different things up there, though (this round one with the arch of water is a bubbler, but the one you'd find in a school is a water fountain)

My nephew did an archaeological internship in Turkey, six weeks long, several summers ago. He found that most of the people there thought Americans drive fancy cars and carry guns. Most of the people from that village who were on the team were Muslim, so when they would respond to the daily calls to pray, the American and British members of the team would either continue their work quietly or take a break in a different area. They hoped to keep a low profile even though they were such a large group of Westerners in that one village. My nephew felt they were pretty successful and as a result they learned a lot about the area of Turkey they were working in, and the country in general.

I went to Russia in 1998 as part of a mission work team from church. Part of the pre-trip training was on the culture and how not to stand out as an "ugly American". It was about being respectful, courteous, dressing modestly and in a way that didn't call unwanted attention to us, and treating others as we'd like to be treated.