Un-American

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by TGRR

It represents the fact that, while we LEGALLY have freedom of speech, we will use peer pressure and market forces to squelch it entirely.

Whilst over here, we have more LEGAL constraints on freedom of speech, but the power of our print media is such as to squelch those legal constraints time after time.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Beestie

It used to mean something bad about the person it was directed to.

Now, it often means something bad about the person who says it.

I agree. I have had many people throw that at me, simply because I am a liberal and I have the audacity to suggest things like, we, as a nation, need to look at where WE are responsible for some of things that happen to us, like with our foreign policy.

Originally Posted by skysidhe

To me saying unamerican means anti America or against America. To feel like one want's go live in another country like I do sometimes doesn't mean unamerican it just means I want a different lifestyle.

I can't tell you how many times certain conservatives on another forum have offered to buy me a plane ticket to another country, simply because I express displeasure with my government. IMO, they are the ones acting unAmerican, because there is nothing MORE American than speaking out against the government when you believe the people in office are wrong.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by limey

No we say "that's just not cricket" instead!

That's exactly what popped into my head as I was reading the OP limey. lol The same phrase is used here also.

We do use the phrase Un-Australian though. It's usually in response to someone doing something slack like the looting after the bushfires and floods. It's more to do with national pride than anything else I think. Most of us like to think Aussies will pull together in a crisis, and for the main part we do, so those who go against the grain are viewed with contempt by the rest of us.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

IMO, they are the ones acting unAmerican, because there is nothing MORE American than speaking out against the government when you believe the people in office are wrong.

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!

[ZenGum]

AS the Invasion of Iraq warmed up, the following phrase appeared on T-shirts and stickers:

I think of myself as Un-Australian first, and Anti-American second.

[DanaC]

That's brilliant. lol

[sugarpop]

Thanks pierce.