Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:13 PM 9/29/99 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote: >I'm a Canadian and I don't associate myself with the term "American", >regardless of what geography teachers may teach their classes. Dan, You are the first Canadian I have ever heard take this position. We're all Americans from the Arctic to Argentina. But don't use it if you don't want to. Applying "American" to us is like applying "men" to people. Accurately, or inaccurately, that's what people mostly think it would seem. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Common sense is that layer of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. -Albert Einstein