Quoting Chris BONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Whew! We're all touchy! As an "American", I consider myself a > > "Citizen of the United States of America" ... just don't call me > "late > > for dinner". ;-) > SNIP > I know (living as close to the border as I do) that > > Canadians sometimes are annoyed by us usurping the "American" title, > > and I can see the point. I just can't think of what anybody can do > > about it now. If Canada had been known as "The Dominion of America" > > back in the early 1800's maybe they would have provided serious > > competition. I've always felt a bit jealous of the Canadians. They > > actually have a term that unmistakably identifies them as a citizen > of > > the Dominion of Canada (official term back when I was a little kid.) > Unfortunately some minority decided that the word "Dominion" was not > good. I > think that they said that it came from the Chrristian Bible therefore > could not be > used in a diverse nation (God gave man dominion over, I think is the > reference)
FWIW, "Dominion" was the term the British Empire used to indicate settler states such as Canada, New Zealand, Victoria, New South Wales, Newfoundland, etc. As such it referred to a state that was a direct offshoot of the municipal British Crown. A state that was constitutionally distinct yet derived from the British Crown. As such it would never be applied to a state that was _not_ a settler state, such as the conglomeration of African kingdoms known as Uganda, or the equal conglomeration known as Rhodesia (North and South), or the British part of the Malay kingdoms that later became Malaysia, etc. Nobody in New Zealand refers to it as a Dominion any more. The settler states in Australia stopped once they federated. Canada held on for a while, but Newfoundland apparently stopped once they joined Canada. > > Diversity is good as long as it doesnot diversify anyone out. > The only problem with an open mind is that it received a bunch of junk. > And other similar sayings that basically say, that most things are good > but donot > take them then extremes including moderation. Precisely. "Moderation in moderation". > > Chris > Wesley Parish "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
