Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!robinson From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re:One for ... (mild flame) Message-ID: <96@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 04:07:40 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.96 Posted: Wed Nov 13 04:07:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 18:46:16 EST References: <497@philabs.UUCP> Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 23 Summary: In article <497@philabs.UUCP> pmw@philabs.UUCP (Peter M. Wagner) writes: > > The discussion about the name "Americans" shows that there is no name for >citizens of the United States of America! The lack of a name goes hand in hand >with a lack of culture and history. Let's wait a couple of hundred years; >perhaps we will find a name. > >There is the Federal Republic of Germany (some people call it West Germany) >and there is the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany). > >Being a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany I object being called West >German! There exist two seperate states. But there is only one >nationality (German). So people in both Germanys call themself Germans or >citizen of .... Given the choice between Germany's recent history and America's "lack of history", I think I'll take the latter, thank you. J.B. Robinson P.S. Gee, and all this time I thought that that snobbish European attitude to the US in particular and North America in general was just another of them thar nasty stereotypes. Silly me.