[HoneyBadger]

Most Americans I know speak atleast some Spanish.

I personally speak a little Spanish-stilted, but enough to get by, follow a conversation, more than not, and to swear, German-3 years of it in school, a little French-there have been a lot of French ladies in my life and I was buddies with a French translator, Japanese and Latin-a few words and phraises, and Italian-just enough to swear.

I owned two rifles that I inherited from my grandfather, briefly, but they were stolen, and it's been a good 15 years since I've shot a gun. I don't like chewing gum, but I do every once in a while, to guard against halitosis.

Americans speak American, and American isn't English, it's English plus every other word we happen to like from every other language.

The problem with Americans isn't that we hate other people-we're not Nazis by ANY means, and there are plenty of savage, genocidal racists and religious tyrants out beyond our borders. It's that we were isolationists for a couple hundred years, and that was for our own good and protection at the time. We welcome other cultures-infact if we have a defining trait, it's our willingness to borrow other cultures, not because they're our neighbors', but because they're interesting and help us define our individual selves-and we're very open to new ideas, but it's important to us that we make them our own, and that we stay in our own "safety zone"-however we define that.