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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:09:13 GMT
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: Asians
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > By way of wiley digression, what is the appropriate name for a
- > resident of the western hemisphere (North or South America) ?
-
- To me, the appropriate name is American. I don't know why Europeans
- (and some Canadians) insist on using that term in a narrower sense.
-
- We don't; if you read a wider range of Usenet groups you'd realise that
- it's regularly USA people who talk about Americans in contexts that exclude
- Canada and South American countries, and it's the Europeans and Canadians
- who take them to task over it. (We're also the ones who have to remind
- you now and then about how little your precious Constitution has to do
- with modern US politics since you guys seem to lose track of your own
- civil liberties all too easily...)
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- G
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