To: mrustow; Luis Gonzalez
Be that as it may, Chileans are Americans, as are Dominicans and Cubans and Peruvians and Brazilians and El Salvadorans. We can say we are the United States, but then there are millions of Americans who live in the 'United States of Mexico,' too.
To: Cultural Jihad
there are millions of Americans who live in the 'United States of Mexico,Parasites! Where are my pest graphics? ;)
201 posted on
08/07/2003 10:57:38 PM PDT by
PRND21
To: Cultural Jihad
Be that as it may, Chileans are Americans, as are Dominicans and Cubans and Peruvians and Brazilians and El Salvadorans. We can say we are the United States, but then there are millions of Americans who live in the 'United States of Mexico,' too.Not to mention the United States of Brazil. But that's an argument on behalf of the term "American." And Mexicans don't even think of themselves as "Americans," let alone identify themselves as such, so why are you inventing a fictional identity for them?
You remind me of the reporters who change the words of immigrants (legal and otherwise), and claim they all said they wanted to come to "the United States." I've never heard an immigrant talk of coming to "the United States." It was always "America." There is only one nation on the face of the earth named "America." You can deny that all you want, just as you can insist, if you like, with an equal lack of justification, that you are Julius Caesar.
214 posted on
08/07/2003 11:09:05 PM PDT by
mrustow
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