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Whoops! That idea quickly went South ;)

@Mikhails Can I nominate this for comment of the month?

@AReasonableAmerican of course!

@Mikhails I've seen one with 40 upvotes, but now I can't find it.

@Mikhails I see what you did there......Good one

@Mikhails pun intended?

One does not simply make puns of that magnitude unintentionally.

It is a very pretty flag just from an esthetic viewpoint. It is a shame that it is associated with such dreadful events.

I like how sister america tries to be nice while she's not the brightest candle on the cake...

My Norwegian friend showed me an article about an American women who saw someone flying a Norwegian flag and mistook is for a confederate flag and made a fuss about it. We both had a laugh about that XD.

About amaricans who like to think of themselves as their origins (speaking as one myself.) I think it's the fact that we wanna know where we came from; and, from both your and our eyes we came from Europe just a few generations ago. When I found out I was 3/4ths Irish. (When I was 5.) I thought 'cool'. And decided to learn as much about it as possible! We don't realize how much we annoy you; but please understand we just wanna know where we came from.

'@Bluesamurai' I was like that once. Sadly, I found out that I was nothing but a polish untermensch.

Hey you should do a comic on an incident during the American Civil War. During the war the British sent three raiders to the Confederate forces to help them against the Union. After the War the US demanded compensation for the damages the ships did. Guess what they demanded? CANADA!

@Hyporia Oddly enough, Canada stated that they would have broke away from Britain and combine with America if Britain joined The Civil War on the side of The Confederates (Canada was extremely anti-slavery and even sheltered runaway slaves).

So instead, Britian started growing cotton in India.

yeah I've seen the confederate flag around here a few times before and it honestly should stop in my opinion. I don't think that most Europeans get the seriousness of hanging that flag. Cause I'm from the south and to anyone who isn't a die hard racist sexist straight white male, that flag means trouble. I went to an elementary school (primary school to you guys I think?) where we were allowed to wear those flags on our clothes. And the first time I ever got called and faggot and assaulted was by someone wearing that and he said he did it for his dad. So that flag is no joke to us...sorry to make it all serious. But it's a bad symbol where I'm from.

Most white Americans have mostly English ancestry. But they don't think of "English" as an ancestry. Instead, they think their 1/4 Irish and 1/12 German is their "ancestry" and the rest that is English is just...nothing. Just like people believe that they don't have accents, only other people do, only things more exotic than English counts as ancestry.

I'm mostly English on my white side. When I tell people that, they're like, "But aren't you also Irish? Or German?" Actually, I am Welsh and Irish about equally, but that's mostly Scotch-Irish (the old term from before the Scottish decided that you can only call them Scottish for Scottish Presbyterians who fled to Ulster and from there to England) and I'm almost as much Huguenot as that, and my tiny bit of German is actually Swedish-German.... But since I'm at least half English on my white side, and most of my family has been here now for 350-400 years, these proportions are a bit silly.

@MarianneDos that's not entirely true. I'd go as far to say most American's aren't British descended. White and speaking English basically only signify coming from europe and having lived in the US 1 or more generation.

My family is like mostly Germanic consisting of mostly German, Swedish, Swiss, more German with a little Irish. There might be an englishman in there somewhere, but not for the vast majority.

Several communities in my state and many other states have strong German heritage.

@MarianneDos and what's the genetic makeup of most English (by which I mean "natives" as in people whose ancestors have lived in England for centuries)? Celtic & minimum of three flavours of Germanic (Angles and Saxons were Germanic, Normans were Germanic, Vikings who settled in Britain between Saxons and Normans were Germanic)

Well... turn the X into a cross, add a background of red and white stripes, and I think you might be onto something..

Sister America seems dumb, but at least she's trying