Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa 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 Article-I.D.: jhunix.1039 Posted: Fri Oct 25 15:38:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 22:01:38 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Ada Arromdee) Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 30 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'. Kenneth Arromdee BITNET: G46I4701 at JHUVM and INS_AKAA at JHUVMS CSNET: ins_akaa@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_akaa%jhunix@hopkins.ARPA UUCP: ...{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!aplcen!jhunix!ins_akaa