> Oh, I remember them. Check your own. You said that the telephone
> doesn't count (as something done by an American) because he was
> Scottish. Now, exactly what part of that statement conceded any part
> of his identity to his permanent residence in the United States?
Or the fact that he invented it while in Canada???
As I said before, I made a TONGUE-IN-CHEEK comment, you jumped down my
throat.
Sorry, but you said:
"If you think so, then that's the symptom of a profound misunderstanding of
what it means to be an
American, or just simple racism."
So get stuffed. I'm not racist. I understand racism far better than you'd
ever think, I'm the subject of it daily. I'm in a minority immigrant group
in the country I live in. I don't know whether you've ever been physically
beaten for your parent's country of origin, but I HAVE BEEN BEATEN UP FOR MY
RACE. I *have* been victimised for my nationality. Racism isn't always
directed towards those of more melanic skin types, and you'd do well to take
that into consideration.
You also wrote this:
"That's right. It was. He can be a Scot, _and_ an American. Or, if
he chose, he could renounce his Scottish identity, I suppose. That's
optional. But when someone chooses to come to the United States and
live the rest of their lives in the US, and get citizenship - which
I'm fairly sure he did - then they become an American."
which almost exactly echoed what I wrote in my first reply to your outburst.
I wrote "if he considered himself an american". Which is, ultimately, the
point of nationality. It's what you consider yourself to be, not what it
says on your passport.
Now, if I'd written, in my original post:
"Sorry, america can't have the phone, a scot living in canada invented it"
you'd have had no excuse to complain, because that's the facts.
Gautam, you either misread intent into what I first wrote, or you have a
GIGANTIC chip on your shoulder. Either way, I respectfully ask that you
either assume all my posts are humourous in intent (which they mostly are)
and reply in kind, or not worthy of comment (and don't comment).
Charlie
