Originally posted by Mike Cash Gratuitous broadbrush insults based on nationality are about what I would expect from a Swede. (Get the point?)
The only trouble I have ever had over something like this involved an Aussie, but I'm not stupid enough to generalize it to being a national trait of Australians.
Ah, but I did not say damyankee did I now? As far as I know, only the people supporting the southern in the US Civil war would take it as an insult to be called a yankee. After all the winning side, the northern did call themselves Yankees and even used the song Yankee Doodle as a marching song.
I know the english also used the term Yankee about the, oh how should I type it so that I do not offend anyone, The fighting citizens of the United states of America. Just because that was what they were, the fighting men, both on the pubs and the battlefields.
So basically, if I have offended any southern slave supporting citizen of the united states of america by calling them a non slave supporting citizen of the united states of america, I hereby declare, I have no intention to apology to anyone that supports the cause of the southern states of america in the civil war of the united states of america. Because frankly, I can't respect anyone that supports a war for the right to own slaves.
And if you are a Northern citizen of the united states of america and find yourself offended by me calling you a yankee, consider why you are offended of a word that your forefathers used on themselves when they fought the evil of britain and the evil of the southern states. How would they feel if you are ashamed of their glorious deeds?
Good day to yous, yankees and non-yankee citizens of the United States of America.