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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!bsinger
  2. From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  4. Subject: Re: Asians
  5. Message-ID: <106531@netnews.upenn.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 00:01:15 GMT
  7. References: <9301251705.AA11176@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  8. Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
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  12. >easily and naturally use the word "American" for their nationality. When
  13. >detail is required, they will specify the US, but no one has problems
  14. >with using and comprehending "American".
  15. >tushar
  16.  
  17. When I 'went away to college' and people asked me where I was from, I
  18. would reply "New York" -- they'd say, "I know that, but -where- in New
  19. York?" "The Bronx" I'd reply, and comprehension dawned: "Oh," they
  20. realized, "You mean New York -City-!"  (The college in question was 
  21. also in New York State, but we "New Yorkers" really didn't grok that 
  22. concept.)
  23.  
  24. --bayla
  25.