Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: One for our side Message-ID: <746@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 18:59:16 EST Article-I.D.: mmintl.746 Posted: Mon Oct 28 18:59:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:56:25 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 14 In article <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) writes: >Another thing that's wrong with ``Amurcans'' is their amazing ethnocentrism, >nationalisticly speaking. The word ``American'' refers to someone born in >this hemisphere. Very little pisses off Latin Americans more than this simple >word slip, by which the US helps to emphasize its hegemony in the West. > >In Spanish, there is a special word for citizens of the US, estadounidense >(eh-sta-tho-ooni-then-se). Yes, but there isn't any such word in English. What are we supposed to call ourselves? Statesmen? Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108