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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
Message-ID: <746@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 18:59:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 18:59:16 1985
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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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).

Yes, but there isn't any such word in English.  What are we supposed to call
ourselves?  Statesmen?

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108