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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:22:34 -0000, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:10:00 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
If they call the indian nation, Native Americans do they call the indian
nation in Canada Native Canadians?
Whoops - PC Police just reminded me - First Americans. Same question
applies though.
First Nations, I believe.
That's it. Well, that answers that.
Which leads me to, how come we, in the US, are "Americans", and all
those others in North and South America, aren't?
I suspect that because we live in the United State of America. Somehow
Nicaraguan American doesn't work.
Which brings up another point.
Why is it we have to identify and quantify ourselves as Polish
American, Irish American or African American?
Even better - why would a person of 50% mixed heritage - say Obama -
choose to identify himself as black as opposed to white?
Because in this country most whiteys would call Obama black. This is
still a nation that defines people by the color of their skin.
Incidentally, I identify myself as a "Yankee" on those rare occasions
when I am asked. I mostly stopped identifying myself as an "American"
when the idiot took over the White House seven years ago.
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