Byronape,

The USA is going through a rough patch.  It is still a great country.  Things will get better.

Most of us would much prefer to deal with the USA than many of the imperial powers that have left their mark throughout history.

There has to be something right about a country that produces music like this or a president that sings the blues.

Your mom is right.  People judge by how people talk.  Though, in my opinion, accent may not be as important as grammar, vocabulary, etc.  Smart people with multi-lingual experience get over accents very quickly.

But many people who live only in a unilingual environment are put off by accents.  I see it all the time here on the Barbarian Coast (knuckle-dragging, oh so populist British Columbia).   Just a slight deviation from local norms in terms of accents can send many good ol' BCers into an instant state of confusion.

You mom had the right idea.  Please don't call her a Nazi.  I grew up listening to Nazi occupation stories.  My Norwegian grandfather was a capo terrorist in the underground national resistance movement. Nazi occupiers arbitrarily executed family members in public to enforce discipline on the occupied population.  My mother suffered malnutrition.

Are Americans Nazis?  Americans bankroll military occupation and colonization.  America is the premier global terrorist organization in the world today.  Torture and concentration camps are acceptable 'methods'.  When it comes to killing children and grandparents, nobody does it better than the USA.  Many of the Jewish settlers of American origin sound like potty-mouthed Nazi propagandists.  It is the superior race BS all over again except this time it is the culture that is apparently superior.  See where that red flag 'nazi' can take us?

Don't call your mom a Nazi.  She was just trying to look after your better interests.

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FWIW, both English Canadians and québécois have mistaken me for ....... American.  (I'm one proud, stubborn square-headed English Canadian albeit tri-lingual.) Once upon a time, an Argentine or two wondered if I was Chileno (bad guess) and some Chilenos wondered if I was Argentinian (better guess).

For the record....  I get all just fine with Germans. On a blind-date basis I would rather hang with Germans than most other Europeans.  And I like and trust Israelis.  How could I not?  Our personalities are too similar.......  Many Israelis are of Germanic-origin.

If your old man treated your mother well, and was overall  a decent, respectful, loving, and trustworthy person, it doesn't matter too much what he sounds like.

Good stuff. Another RP exposure, thank you.

The whole CD is very good.

Speaking of concept albums, Pink Floyd successfully sued EMI for selling album singles on-line.  The judge made EMI pay for all expenses and immediately rejected an appeal.