I’m pretty sure I’m the only Duck to (a) have lived at a state fair, (b) know the 4-H pledge by heart, and (c) have been quoted by the Watertown, S.D., newspaper on … well, on any subject, actually. And although I had the misfortune to be born in Washington, D.C., I quickly decamped for America’s Heartland, where I learned Real American Values, which include RC Cola, moon pies, and a fondness for country music not sung by the Dixie Chicks.
So I feel pretty good in asserting my credentials as a Native USAmerican in these parts, even if my current status as a Ph.D. student living in Barry Hussein Osama’s Unreal “America” makes me suspect anywhere outside of academia.
To build on R. Kelly’s post below about the non-American response to the foreign policy debate, I thought I’d pass along news that, in South Dakota, at least, earning a graduate degree from a non-American institution and accepting speaking engagements at United Nations-led conferences makes you unAmerican. The fact that the Democrat running for Congress in this video earned a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies only further proves that he’s probably some sort of gay Russian-trained Taliban superspy working for the Chinese.
So, small world – I spent 4 years of my childhood living in between Watertown and Aberdeen – and then was a 4-H & FFA chapter president. And, yes, most of my neighbors would have agreed; that is unAmerican.
These new Ducks are making EVERYTHING better :)
Does the Native USAmerican stereotype include Native Americans, or are they disqualified because of too-dark skin and having (great-)grandparents who might have spoken a non-European language or even fought against USAmerica (without wearing a Pickelhaube of course).
And wrt the video, it’s really sad when Glasgow counts as all that foreign. (Wikipedia tells me 23 presidents have had Scottish ancestry, Scots speak English, drink beer, tend to believe in a Christian god, if at all, etc.). Another interesting aspect is the emphasis on USAmericanness while DC, the political locus that puts the ‘U’ in USAmerican, is pretty much presented as a forn parts, where they eat suggestive foods like ‘corn dogs’ and pollute themselves with forn poisons, like Jäger served via artsy fartsy sculpture. The USAmerica depicted in that video seems much closer in symbolic terms to, say, Arusha than to Jersey.
WTF was with the anti-corn dog sentiment. Agreed with the rest of this.
Muricans are kitchen-table Freudians. Who knew?
Hence “Native USAmerican” and not “Native American.” :)
Not to be unamerican, but I think a majority of Americans live in or near cities, so aren’t they the real Amer’cans? If so, I suspect things like a graduat degree from Scotland might be less problematic?
Well, yes. (And I prefer to use ‘Murca to denote Real America.)
That said, many of those cities have state names in them (Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Kansas City), and those are ‘Murcan cities.
True, very true.