Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Canadians are not Americans Message-ID: <742@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 16:03:28 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.742 Posted: Sat Feb 25 16:03:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 17:23:39 EST References: <214@pucc-i> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 16 As a Canadian, I disagree strongly with the person (from Newfoundland?) who claimed Canadians are not Americans and shouldn't be labelled as such. In postings to this and other groups, I have tried to find a word to label Americans who live in the United States. There doesn't seem to be a good word for these people, so I have sometimes used USAmericans (I think Laura Creighton invented it, but I can't be sure). Perhaps if we stopped using the ambiguous Americans == N. Americans (which is too exclusive anyway) and Americans == USAmericans, then some Canadians would stop getting worried when people include Canadians among the citizens of the Americas. Canadians are Americans, too! -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt