and where is Cuba in the sense of things?
Keith
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>Date: 29/07/2008 21:32
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>Subj: [DISABILITY-RESEARCH] language
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>Here's a question that I hope someone out there might be able to
>answer...
>
>I'm trying to figure out how to differentiate between a resident of
the
>USA versus a resident of "the Americas". In Spanish there are two
very
>different words so it is easy. I've tried to see how it would be
done
>by the media in the UK or the USA except they seem to use "American"
>for both. This might mean that the media from the UK and the USA
>haven't quite realised that there are actually a whole bunch of
>countries in the continent :) Apart from the linguistic
colonialism,
>it just makes it very clumsy if I'm trying to write comparisons
>involving both the USA and the continent as a whole (which
"Americans"
>am I talking about?) So I'm wondering how I would talk about it if
I
>was Canadian? Or if anyone can tell me if there is a standard
>convention for making those kind of comparisons in English?
>
>Thanks very much
>Hazel
>
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