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 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:05 pm
Alright, this thought has made things very very puzzeling.
Once Again I say "I am using a bad keyboard please escuse my grammer and spelling. Thank You"
So we have
North America
and
South American
Technically, aren't we all Americans?
Let us Begin!
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 6:09 pm
Well, besides Native Americans, technically everyone's European/Asian/African/Australian. Then again supposedly all the continents were once one, connected by land bridges, so who knows...
Good point, though.
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:19 pm
Got me thinking today. Though, I heard if you ask a Canadian if they are American they get insulted. Is that true?
Because technically they would be canadian for they live in Canada BUT they also live in North America so would that not make them a Canadian American?
*Is Confused*
Just got back from a trip to Canada >_<
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:45 am
Well, most people think of Americans as people who were born/live in the USA. I guess it's just the terminology.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:12 pm
Technically yes, but when you call someone an American or somthing you are implying that they are citizens of the USA, not that they live on the continent of America (north or south)
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:58 pm
Aki Yasu Technically yes, but when you call someone an American or somthing you are implying that they are citizens of the USA, not that they live on the continent of America (north or south) Well, then why do we have north and south America?
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:34 pm
Mystery_Hiroshima Aki Yasu Technically yes, but when you call someone an American or somthing you are implying that they are citizens of the USA, not that they live on the continent of America (north or south) Well, then why do we have north and south America? Well, I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbled when this whole landmass got discovered...
They referred to the new world as a whole as 'The Americas', and I guess after that they just specified it into the North and South portions of this. and then I guess, it just stayed that way...
then the USA came and named themselves after the landmass they claimed, so I suppose that's the root of the problem; When others are insulted by being called an American, they think USA. The USA was named, rather creatively, after the Americas, the landmass it was settled upon. The fact that the colonies/early states named themselves that way led to the term 'American' referring to a citizen of the United States, instead of citizen of that large landmass East of Europe. It's just how things were named over the centuries, I suppose...
...yeah...
xd
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:58 pm
Mystery_Hiroshima Aki Yasu Technically yes, but when you call someone an American or somthing you are implying that they are citizens of the USA, not that they live on the continent of America (north or south) Well, then why do we have north and south America? It is divided into the two main land masses that make up the Americas. and after the USA was fully formed and the Counties of South America had formed, we also have a Centeral America. Its pretty much decided by the Equator, anymore .
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