Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OFF TOPIC, "Americans"
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:42:55 -0500

At 08:29 AM 9/30/99 -0700, Paul Chefurka wrote:
>Would you expect a citizen of Peru to
>answer in the affirmative?  After all they live in South America...

Yes, that's what Columbus found, the Americas. Not North America. Of 
course, he was disappointed that there was a continent in his way, and it 
was already inhabited for thousands of years. Do you know of a country 
called Asia? Yet there are lots of Asians.

Americans live in the Americas. Thus the title of Sebastiao Salgado's book.







Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

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