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From: zimmerm@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: One for our side
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 13:58:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 13:58:00 1985
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!zimmerm    Oct 30 12:58:00 1985


   We are the United States of America.  We mearly indicate in our name
where the majority of our holdings are. We are not America, there are many of 
them. The point is we as a nation believed ourselves to define what the 
americas should be ignoring the rest of the americas.  Canadians are americans 
as are Columbians but they have developed expressions indicating one who is a 
citizen of that country, we have not because we think of ourselves as the 
Americans.
  It is interesting that we feel it is reasonable to call citizens of the USSR 
soviets but is not ok to call ourselves uniteds or some other word indicating
our true nationality rather than our preferred geographical discriptor.


			Bruce Zimmerman
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