An Australian definition of a Canadian

Written by an Australian Dentist...



You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was

actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a

newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an

American or Canadian, any American or Canadian.



So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to

let everyone know what an American or Canadian is, so they

would know when they found one.



(Good one, mate!!!! )

An American or Canadian is English, or French, or Italian, Irish,

German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be

Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,

Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.



An American or Canadian may also be a Comanche, Cherokee,Osage,

Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes

known as native Americans or Canadians.



An American or Canadian is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or

Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America or

Canada than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America

they are free to worship as each of them chooses.



An American or Canadian is also free to believe in no

religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the

government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government

and for God.



An American or Canadian lives in the most prosperous land in the

history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in

the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given

right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.



An American or Canadian is generous. Americans or Canadians have

helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time

of need, never asking a thing in return.



When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago,

Americans and Canadians came with arms and supplies to enable

the people to win back their country!



As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than

any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.



Americans and Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best

products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the

best services. But they also welcome the least. The national symbolof

America, the Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor,

the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest

tossed. These in fact are the people who built America .

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of

September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their

families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were

from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages,

including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.



So you can try to kill an American or Canadian if you must.

Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and

other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you

would just be killing yourself.



Because Americans and Canadians are not a particular people

from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of

freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an

American or a Canadian



Please keep this going!

Pass this around the World ?

Then pass it around again.

It says it all, for all of us