Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpg!tan From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: One for our side Message-ID: <1385@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 16:22:17 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpg.1385 Posted: Mon Oct 28 16:22:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 22:01:12 EST References: <973@decwrl.UUCP> <12580@rochester.UUCP> <1587@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 19 > [jeff m] > 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). ------ 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