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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Ada Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
Message-ID: <1039@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 15:38:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 15:38:20 1985
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Ada Arromdee)
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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).
>
>jeff m

So what. There is a country called "Ecuador", which is Spanish for equator,
but nobody accuses Ecuadorians of ethnocentricism for this. (There are
other countries on the equator, too)...
Or Colombia--named after Columbus ("Colon"), but Columbus didn't just
discover one country; nobody calls this ethnocentricism either.  

Furthermore, at the time the US got its name, there were _no other_ independent
countries in this hemisphere. So the name was not an affront to any other
countries.

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