Amerigo vespucci(sp?) landed somewhere in Florida and thought he was the first to discover the north American continent. America got it's name for it's collection of states. Whereas South America is really made up of individual countries and not states. South America refers to the southern continent south of the equator. Just think what South America could do if there could co-operate among themselves to behave like a collection of states. later gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "kakki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Paz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "dsk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lori in MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Joni Digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: America njc
> Ah but Mr. Paz - one could look at it another way. We identify ourselves as > Americans, not to have the exclusive right to it but to recognize the > inclusivness and oneness among our western hemisphere neighbors. Otherwise, > we could have called the whole country "New England," no? ;-) > > Kakki > > > 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.
