As you all know, I don’t discuss my private life. But I will share these little tidbits. 
1) I love yoga and do it religiously.
2) I don’t believe that getting heartbroken is strictly reserved for those in romantic relationships. I believe that friends of the same sex can break your heart too.
3) I have no patience with dumb and ignorant people who disguise themselves as being superior.
4) I’m happily married.
5) I am an EXTREMELY passionate person in all aspects of the term.
6) I speak, read, and can type in Japanese (although I’m losing a lot of my skills from lack of usage).
7) I love Karaoke.
8 ) My favorite food in the world is Japanese. (2nd place would be Korean).
9) I eat raw fish and meat and love it.
10) While I understand that language is continuously evolving, it disappoints me to see how people change the meaning of serious terms to suit their own agenda.
11) I believe that all people are born good. Hate is environmental and is taught.
12) I have a need to live near water, and I love going to the beach.
13) You just can’t walk on me. I don’t care who you are. I do not tolerate abuse of any kind despite how easy of a target I may appear to be.
14) I am a nice person, but once you cross me, I am a crazy bitch who will set out to make your life temporarily miserable.
15) I love going to amusement/water parks and riding on the rides.
16) I am very judgemental of other people.
17) I only drink alcohol a few times a year.
18) I am a V-E-R-Y happy drunk. I usually giggle, sing, and dance.
19) I’ve experimented socially with illegal drugs before.
20) I graduated high school with a 3.3 average and college with a 3.7 average.
21) I have two older brothers. My eldest brother died from a heart attack at thirty-seven.
22) I was in Seoul, Korea for 15 days waiting for my visa papers to re-enter Japan.
23) I believe in ghosts, psychics, and those that are able to communicate with the dead.
24) I love animals (although I eat them sometimes).
25) My favorite pets are cats.
26) I don’t trust anybody (except for one person).
27) Most of the time, I love animals more than people.
28) I am a survivor.
29) I am all woman, although I admire the physical beauty in other women.
30) I don’t like macho or overly-muscular men (or women for that matter).
31) I believe that respect is earned when it comes to elders, parents or higher beings.
32) I have very high standards when it comes to choosing friends, and by friends, I mean really serious friends. My finickiness has caused me to feel lonely on occasion. Ironically enough, I feel more lonely around fake superficial people than when I am really alone. It’s the quality – not the quantity!
33) I can put up with someone’s antics for so long until I realize it is time to back away and move on.
34) I LOVE snow! And I’m not embarrassed to play in it either.
35) I cry and am moved very easily.
36) My favorite chocolate is Godiva, but I’ll settle for Hershey’s chocolate kisses with almonds as an economical alternative.
37) I love health food not because it’s healthy, but I really DO love the taste of it!
38) I sleep with stuffed animals.
39) I love attention.
40) I am in remission from having had Cushings Disease. Now, I am enjoying my life again. I am happy to be alive and getting better everyday.
41) I am very good at marathon swimming, and I used to swim competitively.
42) I admire those who have the courage to admit to their problems and are able to show their weaknesses despite the risk of getting hurt again.
43) I am old-fashioned in MANY ways.
44) It annoys me when people who think that just because you smile and laugh, that you are happy.
45) I care what people think about me, but refuse to go out of my way to please them.
46) I don’t know what it is about arguing that is so addictive, but I enjoy it even if my ass does get handed to me.
47) I don’t get the latest metrosexual craze. I want to puke at the idea of men shaving their male parts, arm pits, chest hair, and legs!
48) I was conceived in the Virgin Islands.
49) I believe being critical of the American government does *not* equate to Anti-Americanism.
50) Americanophobia offends me because it’s not against my government; it’s a blind prejudice founded on baseless assumptions and rumors via the sensationalized media.
51) Deep down inside I feel more Euro-Japanese than American.
52) I think Mads Mikkelsen, Steven Colbert, and Jon Stewart are RED HOT.
53) Too many hetoreosexual men are acting like girls these days and too many women are acting like men.
54) I have lived in Miami, California, Texas, and Japan.
55) I am adopted.
56) I am biologically 50% Norwegian, 25% Irish, and 25% Polish. (Is this why I love fish so much???)
57) I want to meet new people and make more friends.
58) Why do women have to look like sex symbols yet men can get away with being fat and ugly?
59) I’m addicted to the news – especially all-things-political. Information is like food for me. I am clinically curious – sometimes to my detriment.
60) I loathe Pollyannas. Ohhhhh…. do I loathe them.
61) It’s annoying when the upper middle-class who live luxurious lives complain that they don’t have $12 to go to the zoo.
62) I LOVE to travel.
63) I’d like to live in Denmark or go back to living in Japan for a while.
64) I do not follow fashion trends. Instead, I wear what’s comfortable.
65) I LOVE to shop.
66) I am a huge procrastinator.
67) The two things in life that make me scream, run, my heart race furiously and possibly cry are ROACHES and SCIENCE PROJECTS IN THE FRIGE. I find no difference in the severity of panic between finding a serial killer in my house or finding the above phobias: roaches and fungi.
68) I refuse to live my life with one foot in the grave. I refuse to mature. Life is too short and precious for me. I will go to my grave young at heart, still listing to loud music, still dancing, still singing, and still laughing out loud and being silly.
69) The only reason that I don’t like snobby rich people is because they judge those who have less. Big cultural gap, there and I don’t fit in. I’m not necessarily jealous as I find that you can be happy without being rich.
70) I often make emotional decisions without thinking first and have a problem being a bit too spontaneous at times.
71) I don’t get along with most North American women, and I very rarely hold grudges against men. I love men and most of the time, stick up for them.
72) I am a hypocrite sometimes, but most of the time catch myself right away.
73) People who preach, “Your life is what YOU make it to be” are hypocrites as I always find the same people to be incessant whiners.
74) There are two sides to every story. Only very few people peek beyond the shades.
75) Child abuse is to be accounted for most of the world’s problems.
76) I can read people like a book and am 99% of the time correct.
77) I can sing in Japanese.
78) One of my biggest pet peeves are when people accuse me of something I didn’t say or do.
79) I believe average and ugly women get the better men because those men attracted to average women are interested in what they’ve got on the INSIDE as opposed to the OUTSIDE.
80) I don’t understand people who respect the deceased. What about respecting people while they are still alive???
81) I believe that society in their preachy self-righteous ways to get other humans to internalize their anger is what creates criminals. I don’t believe people will ever learn or change.
82) I have an analytical, logical “cross-examining” lawyer-type mind that irritates the hell out of some people.
83) I am a cynic, but you’d never know that by meeting me or reading me.
84) I look incredibly young for my age. I was just recently carded. Yes, at age 40!! 
85) As much as I hate people, I still love them.
86) There’s nothing like a good massage and hanging out in a Japanese spa all day taking baths, saunas, and eating Korean barbecue.
87) I drink A LOT of water. But it has to be cold water.
88) I do not fear death.
89) I feel that everyone needs a healthy way to cope with their problems. I use cardio-exercise and yoga for that and an occasional glass of delicious red whine.
90) I can’t stop watching “Casino Royale” and “Idiocracy”.
91) If we all didn’t live on hope, we’d all be suicidal. Hope keeps us all alive and kicking.
92) I love to be touched and hugged. And I love to give people kisses.
93) I am a risk-taker and very adventurous – sometimes to my detriment.
94) I believe we must divorce a family member if they are toxic. Life is too short and precious. Let the bad out. Let the good in.
95) My opinions are unpopular and controversial. I wish that they weren’t.
96) The best years of my life were my college days and the days I was living in Japan.
97) I am a very sympathetic person and can feel people’s pain even if I have never been in their shoes (unless they have hurt me). I strongly believe that there are more people out there that have this capability.
98) I love to help people and love to be needed.
99) I feel that dumb people are the happiest people because they do life with the blinders on.
100) I quit smoking on June 13th, 2008, and a couple months after that, I quit drinking coffee.
Hello,
I chanced upon your blog this evening when researching anti-Americanism. I am an American who spent the first 27 years of my life in Canada and have been back in the U.S. for over 10 years. I have so many good friends in Canada, but over the years many have fallen by the wayside because I just won’t tolerate their hateful attitude towards the U.S. and it’s citizens. I even get it from their children … enough said? “Strong and wrong” is unbearable to me.
Recently, one of those old friends sent me a rather hate filled Canadian Parody of the “Joe the Canadian” Beer commercial, wrongfully assuming that I would find it amusing. As a rebuttal, I send this tongue-and-cheek response, where I delight in pointing out the hypocrisy. I hope you find it amusing: he didn’t.
————————————————————-
MY NAME IS TIBOR ZITY AND I AM A PROUD
[insert name of third world toilet here] CANADIAN
-I am more educated and intelligent. I have a pompous opinion
about everything although I don’t DO anything — that’s the
government’s job. I picket the Government when my American
employer lays me off.
- I hate Americans but have never actually met one. I moved to
Canada because I couldn’t get into the U.S.. Canada is way
better, they’ll take anybody.
- I hate America but would gladly trade my first born for a green
card and a Florida condo.
- I get paid less and pay higher taxes but brag about free and
limited access to a second rate healthcare system. When faced
with critical illness, I seek medical attention in the United
States.
- I loath American culture but piss and moan when the state run
CBC doesn’t air Hogan’s Heroes reruns because of socialist
Canadian content requirements. I have an illegal Digital
Satellite hookup to DirecTV. I don’t watch the Beachcombers,
it’s too boring.
- I laugh at stupid Americans on Jerry Springer, then change the
channel to the “Trailer Park Boys”.
- I scorn American discrimination against African-Americans but
would disown my daughter if she ever started dating one. I’m
skeptical when informed that African-Americans live better than
I do and discrimination really doesn’t exist anymore.
- I naively brag that I can leave my doors unlocked at night and
the keys in my car. Yes, it’s true, I have nothing worth
stealing.
- I pay a dollar per liter for gasoline, even though my country
is sitting on the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East.
- I mock watery American beer but would gladly switch to Bud
Light if I could buy a six-pack for $2.99 at the gas station
around the corner on a Sunday afternoon.
Yes, my name is Tibor Zity and I’m a proud Canadian. I’m a slave to my government. I’m a brainwashed naive hypocrite.
———————————————————-
All kidding aside, recent conversations with Canadian friends has sadly forced me to conclude: I’ve outgrown them, and these are “educated” people. Clearly, education and ignorance can co-exist.