Sinister: Hey Kid - Wanna label?

[Brandt S. Fundak]

>Strange chaps some of these americans. They insist on putting labels on
>EVERYTHING - eg death rock, electronica. and they use the term shoegazing
to a
>horrible degree.

I think that the American wish to label everything has less to do with
labels and more to do with borders and individuality.  Everyone in the US
has to feel so distinctive because no one really gives a rat's ass about
their lives.  So they label everything under the sun in a pathetic attempt
to be distinctive.  

Americans are very protective of what they believe is theirs.  I don't know
if you've heard about this, but there is such a negative response to poor
Mexicans attempting to cross the border that a lot of Americans have a
stereotypical view of Mexicans, even though most Americans (the people in
California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona excluded) have ever met one.
Thus the great land of immigrants becomes a place of bigots and ignorant
fools.  

Hell, customs agents even give native Americans shit.  I went to canada in
March, and on the way in, I didn't get any crap from the Canadian customs
agent at all.  But when we tried to cross back in to the US, the zit faced
customs agent gave us shit because my one friend was from Colorado and his
small brain couldn't imagine a scenario where someone from Colorado might
go to grad school in Ohio.  When he asked what she wanted to be when she
grew up, I told her she should have said "A US customs agent."

No wonder everyone hates Americans so much. We suck.

Brandt

"I want to smell what it was like to be a German Shepherd in heat.*Sniff*
It's not bad."

					--Conan O' Brien
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