Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Canadians are not Americans Message-ID: <214@pucc-i> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 11:21:41 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.214 Posted: Tue Feb 21 11:21:41 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Feb-84 01:34:39 EST References: <631@dalcs.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 18 Canadians don't consider themselves to be Americans? That's interesting... The people of Central and South America most emphatically DO consider themselves Americans, and are usually quick to correct any U.S. citizen who implies otherwise. It's unfortunate that there is no better word for citizens of the U.S. (I know, I know, all the Canadians have LOTS of better words to suggest...) We can't very well say "United Stations," can we? I can certainly understand that equating "American" with "U.S. Citizen" can cause resentment. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."