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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Ads in AmigaWorld
Keywords: america vs canada
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Date: 11 Jun 90 13:02:21 GMT
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In article <3208.AA3208@vache.CAM.ORG> yves@vache.CAM.ORG (Yves Laurin) writes:
>my english might be bad, but my geography is better
>why do american think they own america, canada ia part of noth america
>they could not figure out a name for citizen of united state so they
>took the name american. they may have the name but not the land (so far).

	Just the pattern of speech we generally use. It's nothing
personal, we just use the word American to refer to people from
the U.S.. People from Canada are Canadians. It's not those
imperialistic Americans again, we don't even think of the term as
expanding beyond our borders.
	And we ALMOST won Canada...   8^>

	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

"If Commodore had to market sushi they'd call it `raw cold fish'"
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