A piece of humor has been circulating on the Internet for some time about a young polar bear cub that approached his mother one day and asked, “Mom, am I a polar bear?”
“Of course you are,” she replied with a smile.
“OK,” said the cub, and padded off. Later, he found his dad out by the iceberg.
“Dad, am I a polar bear?” he asked.
“Sure you are, son!” said his dad, wondering why his son would ask such a silly thing.
The next day, the cub asked the question again and again.
“Are you and mom polar bears?” he asked his dad. “You are? Well, then, does that make me a polar bear? Pure, 100% polar bear?”
Finally, his parents couldn’t stand it any longer. “Son, you’re driving us crazy with this question! You are a polar bear! Why do you keep asking?”
The cub looked up and confessed, “Cause …