There are three kinds of people in the world: those who insist on properly enumerating things in a list and those who don't.
Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually there is only one continent America, it has a northern, central, and > southern part. It surprises me to see how the North Americans (i.e. US > nationals and Canadians) insist to count 7 continents and not 5 as the rest > of the world does. Just because man has cut a canal in Panama, doesn't mean > geography can be changed. > NAFTA has nothing to do with considering Mexico as North or Central America. > Most people in the world view North America as English speaking America, and > South as Spanish & Portuguese speaking America. In Spain we designate it that > way, in my experience in dealing with people from Mejico is that they don't > mind being called South American, they don't consider or would ever like for > you to call them Central American. -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
