[Magdalen] Inappropriate?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

just like we have the 'World Series' and "The American something or 
other/this or that" we (the U S of A)  are NOT the only America. Most of the 
rest of the world looks at the northern hemisphere on our side of the globe 
as "the Americas", which is why Mexico and Central America also think that 
way.

Lynn
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From: "Sibyl Smirl" <polycarpa3 at ckt.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:04 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Inappropriate?

> On 10/13/15 7:54 AM, Arthur Laurent wrote:
>> Most Americans think Canada is part of the United States.
>
> Interesting sidelights on how people think -- a New Zealand friend, whom 
> most of us know, and who might still be here (Hi, Gaynor, if you're here) 
> after she took a round-the-world trip through the US (lots of listmeets!), 
> was talking to me about tour buses, and somehow I said something about 
> foreign tourists on those buses, reacted, "Surely you don't consider Ian 
> and me as foreigners!"  I was surprised at her surprise, and I think I 
> wound up asking her when was the last time she voted here.  Then just a 
> few days ago I passed around a FaceBook post about exporting the jobs that 
> Americans should have, Oreo Cookies being exported as an industry to 
> Mexico, with the US flag as part of the picture.  A friend with a Hispanic 
> surname (I don't know where she lives or is native, and her FB page gives 
> no clue, our normal topic in common is Autism and Asperger's--for all I 
> know she might be of the Argentine) was bewildered.  Seems she thought 
> that Mexico was part of America.  Of course, in the continental sense it 
> is, so I explained to her the normal usage of "America" as short for 
> "United States of America", the flag, and the continental correctness, but 
> in the case of jobs, the difference between Mexican citizens and US 
> citizens.  I also cracked that a lot of Mexicans seem to think so.  She 
> didn't say anything more on the thread. Maybe she was being subtle about 
> making the continental point in the first place, and I was the one who 
> didn't get it, but the picture with the post did include the flag.
>
>
> -- 
> Sibyl Smirl
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