Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <390016E9.868DC46@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> 
>>> and then I remembered the REAL arrogance of Americans... forgetting
>>> that Canada isn't part of the USA. LOL. Oh well....
>> 
>> Canada is still part of America though -- it's the northernmost
>> country of North America.  And then you have Mexico, Central America,
>> South America....
>  
> Don't tell a Canadian that they are an American, unless you want a
> fight.
 
So you've brainwashed them too into believing that America is only
the US.....
 
> The friends I've had who were Canadians said that Canadians don't
> even like to be called North Americans (the name of the continent that
> we share with Mexico as well as the "Central American" states.) Canada
> has a proud history of her own, and some who settled in her were
> loyalists who left the United States after we achieved our independence.
> They especially wouldn't want to be called Americans.
 
I see -- they really want to be called British, right?
 
>> Regarding "american arrogance": did you realize that the fact that
>> you often call your country "America" is one example of this arrogance?
>> Consider if e.g. Russia would label itself "Europe", just because it's
>> the largest country in Europe ---- I hope you get the idea...
>  
> I do, but I'm afraid you miss the point.
> 
> Russia isn't the United States of Europe, is it?
 
Not anymore -- but the Soviet Union was really the United States of
Euroasia: Russia, Ukraine, White Russia, Modavia, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Kirgisiztan, Turkmenistan, ....... even Alaska was Russian
only a little more tha 100 years ago....
 
> Now, if the European Union ever becomes a federal republic, with what
> are now independent nations forming a new nation, then the citizens of
> that country might well be called Europeans, eh?
 
Sure -- but so will also the citizens of e.g. Norway, which most
likely will remain outside that union.
 
> Especially if there is one universal language,
 
There isn't in Europe!  Try to make Britain give up English, or
Germany give up German, or France give up French, or Spain give up
Spanish --- no way!  When the ancient Roman empire fell apart some
1500 years ago, that was the end for one common language in Europe.
 
> and nearly everyone there speaks it.
 
Not even in the US does everyone speal American -- you have a quite
large minority of SPanish-speaking people who understand little
English....
 
> Even if there were one or
> two european countries that weren't part of that Union???
> 
> What would you have us called? United Statesers???
 
Yankees !!!!
 
> Are Germans called Federal Republicers?
 
There is no Germany outside the Federal Republic of Germany.
People in Austria are called Austrians, and people in Switzerland
are called Swiss.
 
> Please, please call a Welshman or a Scot English because they live
> in the United Kingdom and speak English.
 
They're British, but not English!  To call a Welshman "English"
would be worse than to call a New Yorker a "Californian", because
the Welsh even have a different language: Welsh.
 
> I'd love to watch the result. And address a Mexican as an American.
> That should be interesting. They live in the Republic of Mexico
> last time I looked. 
 
Mexico has probably been as brainwashed as Canada has in believing
"American" only means "citizen of the US".
 
If there ever is a Federation of European countries, I would feel
very bad if people living in Europe but outside this federation
wouldn't want to call themselves "Europeans".
 
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