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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 13:03:32 EST
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Let's keep this out of net.nlang, where our ramblings are no doubt not
appreciated.

> 
> Anyone from Latin America will tell you an inhabitant of the US is a yankee.
> And you better believe, that's an insult!
> -- 
> 
> 					Scott Anderson
> 					ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra

Yeah, but it would be `yanqui' or `yanki'.  It certainly is a derogatory
term (unless you happen to be a member of my favorite major league baseball
team).  But just like `cabron' or `gringo', it could be used in a playful
sense among friends.

This comment reminds me of a guy we met in Nicaragua at the Mercado Huembes,
where we were all eating at a particular table.  When the Nicaraguan became
aware that we were estadounidenses, he asked ``The good kind, or the bad
kind?''  There wasn't much we could say directly.

This was the WORST display of hostility (and virtually the only one) toward
me as a US citizen in two weeks there.

-- 
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