On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:12:52 -0400, Christopher A. Lee
 wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:05:21 +0100, Chris  wrote:
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>>Larry Blanchard wrote:
>>> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:56:34 -0400, Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The technical, geographic facts, no matter how correct, or how correctly
>>>> taught, don't matter very much. What matters is how people see
>>>> themselves and define themselves. Canadians aren't Americans, Mexicans
>>>> aren't Americans.
>>> 
>>> Actually, we residents of the US aren't "Americans" either.  It's just
>>> that "United Statians" is such a mouthful that we appropriated the term
>>> "American" :-).
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>The Mexicans and Central Americans call then Nortemericanos.
>
>>Don't the states think of themselves as mini countries similar to 
>>countries in the EU so you call yourselves Americans as you are on the 
>>American continent and we call ourselves Europeans on the European 
>>continent or Britons in the British Isles apart from Eire.
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>"Oh, you're English, I do like your accent"
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>"Thank you"
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>"I went to England last year on vacation"
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>"Where did you go?"
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>"Scotland"
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