Americans

Life insurance products and services play a unique role in helping Americans prepare for the unexpected.

Dogs have saved young American lives by heroic measures like dragging wounded soldiers to safety.

Taking little “cat naps” throughout the day might seem harmless. But not according to findings from a recent study, which indicates that regular daytime dozing could be a signal of an increased risk of a stroke in older Americans.

Something that stands out for me very much in American discourse is the emphasis of nationality in contexts where a general subject is discussed. So life insurance is something that helps Americans deal with the unexpected, rather than Canadians for example? Young American lives were saved by heroic dogs who were presumably requested not to save young Korean lives? That would be decidedly unheroic. (Even the concept of a life having a nationality sounds ridiculous.) And daytime dozing stops being a signal of impending stroke south of the Texas-Mexico border? Actually, now that I think about it, I often hear this use of the word “American” in the context of some threat or danger. Wanting to protect our own Americans. As opposed to people. The rest of the world.

I heard a TV evangelist a short while ago actually preaching that Heaven is roughly the size of the United States, and when it comes to Earth, it will descend on the United States and cover it, and we will walk in the streets of Heaven. Hope they send a breakaway section to Hawaii.