Personally I have always like "Gringos" it just has a certain ring to it. I love it, but of course that fart Vince let the cat out of the bag and told everyone that I am actually from Michigan (Detroit if you can imagine anywhere more ghastly than that), but then daddyO is from Honduras which makes ME a "Grindio" but I digress. Poor me one will ya dear I missed mine this evening...
Love Paz P.S. UnitedStations has sort of a ring too. on 9/18/02 8:08 PM, kakki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
