Yeah. Foreign Policy. George Bush has heard of it.
Roger
On 9/9/07, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> George Bush recently visited "Australia" (weird name) and reassured this proud people that "we" (the yanquis or whatever) are "kicking ass" in Iraq. He then referred to "Australians" as Austrians -- so you guys now get to claim Mozart and Hitler. You know, I wonder how they made sure we didn't see any kangaroos or wallabies or surfers when they filmed "The Sound of Music?" In any case I am encouraged that so many of you Austrians write pretty good English.
>
> joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote: You can call us anything -- just don't call us late for dinner.
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> Mark Weiss wrote: The last I heard, native americans insisted that they prefer indian.
> Mexicans and other non-USian Americans call us a variety of things,
> not all polite, including estadounidense, yanqui, gabacho
> (generalized foreigner, formerly used exclusively of the French),
> gringo, guero (blondie--applies to blond mexicans, but to USians of
> any complexion), yuma (in Cuba--from the film 3:10 to Yuma, which was
> enormously popular there), norteamericano, and sometimes americano.
> There are probably a slew of others I'm not aware of. In Mexico put
> pinche in front of any of them to make it really nasty.
>
> Mark
>
> At 11:28 PM 9/8/2007, you wrote:
> >PC non-Indians tend to call them Native-Americans.
> >They, in my experience, tend to call themselves
> >Indians, unless they're referring to specific tribes,
> >such as Cherokees, Apaches, etc. Calling US
> >Americans Americans is okay with most USAmericans,
> >though not with all Americans in the broader sense.
> >Mexicans often like to call USAmericans and Canadians
> >Norteamericanos, as though Mexico isn't part of
> >North America. Btw, we usually call Indians from India
> >Indians too. Just don't let George Bowering catch you
> >calling USAmericans Americans.
> >
> >Hal
> >
> >"The name Stanley Kunitz is already taken. Please
> > take a new one."
> >
> >Halvard Johnson
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> >http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
> >http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> >http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> >http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> >http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sep 8, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> >
> >>Do you guys still call them 'Indians'? It's a double bizarre thing,
> >>we don't
> >>have anything to call USAmericans except, well, USAmericans, while
> >>the name
> >>for the people who were already there makes them out to be in the
> >>wrong
> >>place.
> >>
> >>P
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