I was born with a foot in 2 countries.... May 06, 2009 5:04 PM
I was born in Jackson, Alabama and my dad was American and my mom was and still is Canadian . I was raised with no accent of the south and loving both foreign and southern things. I am confused because my daddy (born American in the south) loved Australia and surrounded our home with that love and I learnt to love it too, I just recently went here for 2 weeks and fell even more in love with it after growing up with all the love for that country. But my true love has been Paris , which I lusted after for 35 years and finally got to go there for 3 weeks last May. I sometimes feel as though I am someone without a true country because of the way I was raised but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I am an American/Canadian with ties to other countries...does that make me a freak, no, it makes me a human with too many loves to mention...and I adore my parents who were brought together in a passion by some other country.
Indigenous Australians have a flag that's red, yellow and black - I don't blame them for wanting a different flag, since the Aussie flag represents all sorts of horrible things (e.g. invasion, genocide, slavery)
In the spirit of the apology Aus' Prime Minister gave to Australia's 'Stolen Generation' (children abducted from their homes) and moving forward together, this tag shows a combination of both flags:
I love american,nothing is perfect,even nations,but i thank God for my birth place.the greety people will have to face God in the end.that is why our money say in God we trust.they for got to trust him.
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Sandra, I too am but live in so have to import my tea! The stuff produced in France is so weak it is see-through and coffe first thing in the morning is
i don't know if being English is good or bad but it is home! and i do like tea and cereal for breakfast, these are the things I miss when im on holiday hehe!
The current Mexican flag was adopted on September
16, 1968. Mexico gained its independence from Spain on September 21,
1821, (that' why theres alot of Mexicans that are descendents from
spain)oy and love and in many cultures it has a sacred signifi Mexico's
coat of arms means an ancient Aztec legend is a tale of God telling a
band of wandering Aztec Indians that when they came across an eagle
eating a snake, on top of a nopal cactus growing out of a rock fulled
of water, thats were they were to create their home. This spot
eventually became Mexico City. This image with the eagle eating a snake
is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms. Green: represents hope for a better nation, where people join together to achieve and maintain peace between them.
White: represents the purity of catholic faith. Red: the color of blood. With the inclusion
of this color on their flag, Mexican people pay a tribute to those who
died during the terrible war for independence.
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I'm sorry you don't have a flag you can wave. You have the right not to wave th red, white , and blue. If you think the history books of your youth were truthful, you're saddly mistaken. The history that is written is full of untruths. I am part Native American,Cowlitz, you must know that Christipher Columbus did not discover North America, yet we celebrate him with a holiday.
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I would show my flag, but as I am an American, most of you can probably understand why I don't want to brag. I am not happy to be an American. I do understand that you can't choose the place of your birth, but I do wish I'd been born in a more giving and forgiving country. This place is no longer what the schoolbooks of my youth professed it to be; come to think of it, it was never the land of the free and the home of the brave. Just home to a bunch of greedy white men.