Hi! I happen to be a white, southern male who has honestly never heard of the word Canadian used to refer to anyone other than our northern neighbors with flip-top heads. I also have never worked in a table-waiting restaurant (I delivered pizza), so I guess that would explain my lack of worldly experience.

First, I would like to congratulate most of you for showing your prejudices on all fronts. We've got folks who are bigoted towards black people, folks bigoted towards Canadian (the country) people, and folks bigoted towards southern people.

There are blacks who ignore the value of education, call their peers in school who are trying to succeed 'acting white;' just as there are ignorant, backwards redneck idiots who think that anyone not pale of skin, Christian (protestant) of faith, and rural in outlook aren't worth the time it takes to spit. There are also proud Canadians that think they're better than their neighbors to the south in culture, breeding, and couth.

Stereotypes do, indeed have a basis in fact. However, and to keep in this thread's theme of trite phrases, you can't judge a book by it's cover.

Someone above me mentioned that there hasn't been any race riots in Boston in 30 years. Someone else mentioned nooses and lynchings... might I remind you that the 'rebirth' of the Klan in the mid-century arose in the midwest, and that there have been NO lynchings within my recollection about that long anywhere in the country. We *are* moving forward. It's slow, takes time, and takes the *individual* effort of a lot of forward-thinking people making a difference one relationship at a time. I'm walking. Who's with me?

Hey, my hometown made BoingBoing. Cool, except for the dumbness.

I, like Mark Rowan, haven't seen any of this yet (my Jeep is constantly junked out with boxes and piles of things. Let's see if they give me a sticker when I'm buying groceries.