Campbell reminds me of a silly man I met once: he was very tall and fat and had a bright red face. It would irritate me how he would keep telling me and my dad how great "Amurrika" was since he found out we were foreigners.
Campbell sound like that kind of man, not only does he have a freakish obsession with his country but he's also convinced that we're interested on what he's saying. But don't get me wrong, it applies to everybody from everywhere. It also irritates me when anybody has and obsession with their country, some people call it "nationalism" but it think its some kind of secret brain-washing technique.
I literally rolled my eyes when Campbell the American was reciting this cheap prose as if it actually meant something,''Blue is for the American sky,[...] White is for the race that pioneered the continent, drained the swamps and cleared the forests and built the roads and bridges. Red is for the blood of American patriots which was she so gladly in years gone by.''(Vonnegut 58) and not even his own american peers could stand it since his "audience was sleepy" (Vonnegut 58).
P.S.: did you know that apparently Amurrika has the best...
jueves, 17 de septiembre de 2009
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