@Gamer:
Ender, you’re back! :mrgreen: How you been, my Canadian Communist friend? :wink: :-D
Been pretty good, just not playing much AAR anymore. Not much time for games now, though I do sneak in the odd Battle for Wesnoth session. My baby’s scheduled to arrive in about four weeks, zoinkers.
On topic, I have to say the questions were pretty dumb. It shouldn’t have been “how American are you” but rather “how closely do you match the right-wing red-neck gun-nut stereotype of Americans”. If I were American I’d be pretty offended at the implication that that’s what it meant to be “American”.
I would think that in the spirit of equality and democracy, you would consider everyone with American citizenship 100% American. This idea of being a “better” American than others smacks of the idea of 1st and 2nd class citizens, which in turn smacks of the class system in Britain that the U.S. declared it’s independence from.
If you believe in democracy, you can’t rank people’s right to call themselves American based on their political and other preferences.
Some of the questions I had to answer with the extreme “unamerican” answer just because I couldn’t go with the “American” one. For example, to join the U.S. military, is this “Heroic”, “Desperate” or “Dumb”?
Well, I don’t particularly judge anyone for joining any military, it’s a decision you make. So I wouldn’t call it dumb. However, I also wouldn’t call it “heroic”. People do it for millions of reasons. I knew that often lower-income people join because it’s a guaranteed career, so I think I went with “desperate”.
The questions were dumb. nuff said.