canadians in comic

[Wilson Gray]

And then there's also the covert use of "America(n)" to mean
"European-America(n)," as when the cartoon character notes that,
though he himself is willing to vote for a Canadian, he's not going
to, because he doubts that the rest of _America_ will. [Presumably, he
doesn't want to "waste" his vote.]

-Wilson

On 3/26/08, Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
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> I think we covered the covert-racist 'African-American' sense of _Canadian_
> on this list, so this comic might be of interest:
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> <http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2008/03/26/knig/>
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> Lynne
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