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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 16:22:17 EST
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> [jeff m]
> 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).
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Very little pisses me off more than the mindless anti-Americanism
(excuse me, anti-Unitedstatesism) of jeff m.  Has it occurred to him that
there is no word in the English language for inhabitant of the United States
other than American.  I can understand how Latin Americans and Canadians
might not like this, but it is a fact.  I'll be damned if I'm going to
call myself a Unitedstatesian (ugh!).  It is unfortunate that the same
word, American, has more than one meaning, but it takes someone like jeff m.
to convert this into a sign of US hegemony over the West.  Spare us.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan