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

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> > 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.....
 
Paul, Paul, Paul, what European arrogance. I hope you intended to add a
smiley face. Otherwise you have insulted the millions of free people who
live in Canada. By your logic, you aren't a Swede, you're a
Scandinavian.

> > The friends I've had who were Canadians said that Canadians don't
> > even like to be called North Americans 

> I see -- they really want to be called British, right?

No, they want to be called Canadians. Who are you to tell them they have
to be called Americans?

> > Russia isn't the United States of Europe, is it?
> 
> Not anymore -- 

Oh? It used to be the United States of Europe?? Someone needs to teach
you the history of the last sixty years. Especially from the point where
Sweden stood on the sidelines of the war against Hitler, while making
money from it.

> > 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.

Being of Norwegian descent, I can understand not wanting to be part of a
union with Sweden  :)

> > 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!  

That's what the word "IF" means in English. The parallel was between the
United States of America, and a mythical United States of Europe.

> Not even in the US does everyone speal American -- you have a quite
> large minority of SPanish-speaking people who understand little
> English....
 
No one in America speaks American. The overwhelming majority of us speak
English. Ditto for Canada. Certainly not BBC English, but those of us
living on this continent can usually make ourselves understood when
speaking to someone from the British isles.
The monolingual Spanish minority isn't nearly as large as you imply.

> > What would you have us called? United Statesers???
> 
> Yankees !!!!

Oh yeah, I can see people in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, etc. loving
that one. Only someone with gross ignorance of this country would
suggest that one. I was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs of
Pennsylvania, and we all knew that Yankees lived only in New England and
in the House that Ruth built.

> > 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.

Thank you for making my point. Canadians live in Canada, Mexicans in
Mexico, and Americans in the United States of America. What's so hard
about that??
 
> > 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.

You haven't been to Wales or Scotland much have you? Though Welsh still
exists, and Scottish Gaelic, English is still the dominant language in
those lands. And again, you've missed the point, Scots are Scots, not
English, and Canadians are Canadians, not Americans, even though we have
a common language (well, except for Quebec) and common (european)
cultural roots.

> > 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".

Oh, great, insult Mexicans as well as Canadians. I guess Hitler was
wrong, Americans are the master race; we can brainwash two great
peoples, but only Swedes are free of our powerful mind warping powers.
It must be the blonde hair.  :)

Roy