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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
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Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 12:52:36 EST
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> 
> Yes, it is a problem that there are several geographical and political
> entities whose names are some variant on "America".  But residents of
> the United States of America have no more or less right than residents
> of South America to call themselves "Americans".  However, except for
> residents of the US of A, all the other Americans have other
> country-name-based designations (e.g. "Brazilians", "Mexicans",
> "Canadians"); why do they want our name?
> -- 
>     Barry Margolin
>     ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
>     UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar

Hm...I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but remember that
people who live in the CONTINENT of Europe are called Europeans; people who
live in Asia are Asians; people who live in Africa are called Africans;
if someone calls themself an American, things are less clear.

Yow!  I am having fun.  Zippy the Pinhead