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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re:One for ... (mild flame)
Message-ID: <96@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 04:07:40 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.96
Posted: Wed Nov 13 04:07:40 1985
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Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <497@philabs.UUCP> pmw@philabs.UUCP (Peter M. Wagner) writes:
>
>  The discussion about the name "Americans" shows that there is no name for
>citizens of the United States of America! The lack of a name goes hand in hand
>with a lack of culture and history. Let's wait a couple of hundred years;
>perhaps we will find a name.
>
>There is the Federal Republic of Germany  (some people call it West Germany)
>and there is the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany).
>
>Being a citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany I object being called West
>German! There exist two seperate states. But there is only one 
>nationality (German). So people in both Germanys call themself Germans or
>citizen of ....

Given the choice between Germany's recent history and America's "lack of
history", I think I'll take the latter, thank you.

J.B. Robinson

P.S. Gee, and all this time I thought that that snobbish European attitude 
     to the US in particular and North America in general was just another
     of them thar nasty stereotypes. Silly me.