Typical "gringo" logic. ;-) Gabriel Garcia Marquez has plenty to say on this topic. He got bent out of shape with this topic claiming that the North Americans were arrogant to call themselves Americans as IF they were the only ones. We were taught in Latin America that America' was the whole bleeding thing from North To South. Me, some of my peeps are from Central America which makes us Central Americans or Latinos which my son wants to know why that is cause we don't speak Latin we speak spanish, which fuels the fire under my wifes ass who sez that we are Hispanic because we all originated from Spain, but that leaves out the connection with all the tribes in Central America yes my Mayan ancestors, but then maybe we are all Africans cause that's where it all started isn't it??? The mother land. I dunno I was never to good at Geography (even thought I always wanna be somewhere else), but I am the king of run on sentences, cause I can. I tried to find the article about it on the internet for you, but I couldn't find it. I love his writing and I will keep looking for it for you, it's a good read.
Paz on 9/17/02 11:20 AM, dsk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lori in MD wrote: >> >> Not to mention that the continent of North America includes this other >> rather large country named Canada ... And how is it that *we* (in the >> USA) are the only "Americans"? > > We're the only ones with "America" as part of the full name of the > country, aren't we? > So it makes sense to me that the name has gotten shortened to Americans. > It refers to the country, not the continents. > > What's the full name of Canada? > > Debra Shea
