Reply #13: your assumptions

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First of all, I don't have a "superiority complex" - that's yet another element of the American stereotype that is as incorrect as the "all French people are rude" and "all African people are athletic" stereotypes. To protest anti-Americanism isn't a superior position -- it's the position of someone who demands equal human dignity for everyone, regardless of ethnicity or national origin. Are women being "superior" when we ask to be considered equally human?

You're again repeating the same stereotype in your comments. You're also assuming positive correlations to the Canadian actions without reference. Those are cultural inferences you are making that have nothing to do with the information given. Canada and the US are two different cultures. They have the right to their own individual approaches without being thought callous simply because one doesn't equal the other in certain circumstances.

>that bringing awareness

If you had read any of my other comments on DU, you would know very well that I am quite aware (far more aware than most people) of the putative anti-patriotic nonsense thrown at protesters against this war in this country. I've been called anti-patriotic more times than I can count. It is no more correct than your converse depiction of my comments simply because I don't conform to your notion of what an anti-war person should sound like.

You're defending the other poster far beyond the point I made. I suspect that has more to do with the fact that I'm American and he/she isn't. We've crossed this bridge before, as I recall. I don't know what rationale there is for repeating the pathway.

A knock about the US Congress (simply because they're American) as a gross generalization by someone outside this culture is as incorrect and unfair as the idiots in this country who insist on "Freedom Fries" because of their ethnic stereotypes of the French. If someone had posted the same thing about Canadians or anyone else, I'd have made the same statement.