December 8, 2004
The True North strong and free
CNN helps market a company's tshirts, patches, and pins of the Canadian flag -- the line is designed for Americans going abroad who want their nationality to go undetected. Andrew Cline properly debunks the notion that foreigners hate American tourists here, but nevertheless there have been Americans travelling abroad as Canadians since at least 1997, when I met some in Europe. Whether their fears were founded or not I cannot say, but the idea of posing as Canadian certainly didn't originate with this New Mexico company. [via Political Wire]
I am in the same boat... nobody thinks I'm American. In India, many people insisted I was lying to them when I said I was American.
My sister has it even worse. She's married to an Italian and lives in Italy... when she told them she was from Indiana, they looked at the color of her skin and decided she was Indian... so that's what's on her marriage certificate.
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