The correct spelling of Stan Waite's name is Stand Watie.

All true paleos should love the Red Sox for it is they who have buried an Empire and relegated the Yankees to just another bad memory of the 20th Century.

Red Sox Nation salutes the valiant Indians and wishes them well as they build for the future. This experience will prove helpful the next time around. You have the consolation of knowing Navajo, Jacoby Ellsbury will continue to make Native Americans proud in the World Series.

Fenway. October. Glorious.

Yes, I think I've already got the meaning of your "foreign elements"-reference (as little as I'm informed on baseball, I know it's pretty big in several countries of Central and South America). I've just took it as an illustration of your, somehow inadequate, use of that (Anglo-Celt/Saxon) part. My point was that the national term "American" is hardly synonymous with such an - purely ethnic - identity as Anglo-Saxon/Celtic. Thus my mentioning of DiMaggio and Gretzky (who is Canadian, all right, but you get the point). And I could have gone on and on with famous American/Canadian athletes of different (Italian, African, Serbian... just name it) heritages. That's all I was trying to say.

Of course, if you honestly believe that all your countrymen of non-Anglo-Saxon (/Celtic, right) descents should be paying daily acts of obligatory genuflection to their "Anglo hosts", that's between you and them. Though, I doubt that you'll be in agreement with many of your fellow Canadians, no matter what color, creed or ethnicity they belong to. Your group arrived there a bit earlier than some other groups did (the same goes for the French portion of Canada), but with just enough time to shape the countries in its own fashion (language, legal system, culture...), which the following waves of the newcomers, as far as I know, willingly embraced as a key part of their new identity. Which is all fine, and is a fact which I don't think anyone could seriously question. On the other hand, you're not some landlord in medieval England, who can afford treating his (non-Anglo) countrymen like some serfs who must express their lifelong gratitude to his hospitality and kindness. They've chosen to live in America/Canada, they pledge their national and political loyalty to these countries, not to their former homelands (or the ones of their forefathers). They pay their taxes, die in the wars their countries wage... Like it or not, they're not some delinquent trespassers in your backyard. They are compatriots of yours, who share the common identity, but have the rights of preserving their own cultural traditions (for themselves, of course) as long as they like. But, since I'm not an American/Canadian (nor I plan to become one, fear not ), I would prefer not to discuss this subject any further. Neither I would have brought it up in the first place.

As for the sports, I wholeheartedly share the notion that they represent a part of modern identity of any nation and any culture. Which makes the state of overwhelming dislike of football (soccer) in North America perfectly understandable (believe me,some sudden impact of American football's popularity in any European country would cause the same kind of reactions as the most
comments on this forum, only vice versa ) . On the other hand, the thing with sports is not in preservation but in competition. The more "global" it gets, the more successful it feels. We could like it or not (for the record, I'm not too keen on globalization either), but it does not change that fact. For example, we all profited from global spreading of, say, martial arts, don't you agree? Of course, the rest of the world can always say "take your aikido home, you Japs, we wanna preserve our traditional art of good ol' fist-fighting in a crowded bar" , but the whole culture of the Far Eastern martial arts had had a considerable impact to the very concept of self-defense. We cannot just pretend it didn't happen.

Again, Mr. Piatak, my apologies on the off-topic. I've just seen the CanadianObserver's comments on my previous post, and wanted to explain some of my views. That's all, as far as I'm concerned.

You are correct, but you forgot: pro-"Sanctuary City", pro-illegal immigration, pro-leviathan, anti-2nd amendment, etc...