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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
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Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 12:55:12 EST
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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
> 
> Sure, it's occured to me.  In English I refer to myself as a US citizen,
> which has one more syllable than ``American.''  As I mentioned in my previous,
> less thought-out note, there are alot more people than just me who stress
> this sign of hegemony (a hegemony which is very real, and has more to do
> with guns than words).
> 
> I have very few original ideas, being addicted to eclecticism.  Many others
> have very few original ideas because they are addicted to dogmatism.
> 
> Cheers, Jeffrey D. Myers

Jeff, can you imagine for a second what it would have sounded like in WW 2
when the French people said of the Normandy invasion:  "The U S citizens are
coming!!"?  Somehow "The Americans are coming" sounds more like an invasion
by soldiers than an invasion by private citizens.

America happens to be the name of a country in North America, the same as
Canada happens to be the name of a country in North America.  I don't believe
you should infer anything else in the name 'America'.  The name of our country
should not and does not have to be an insult to other countries in this
hemisphere, it is just simply the name we go by.  There are of course, people
who will look and find an issue with anything, but that does not mean that
an issue really exists.  If the North American continent had been named 
America long ago and we came along and called our country America, then we
would have a problem.

Oh well enough, I have to go out and trim my hegemonys.

bye bye

ray