Re: Waay OT - America (was: Ada?)

[Reinert Korsnes <reinert.korsnes@chello.no>]

Christoph Grein wrote:

> From: dennison@telepath.com
>> Adrian Hoe <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote in message
> news:<3C97EF08.1AFB3D05@greenlime.com>...
>> > Germans, Malaysians!, Chinese and Vietnamese and even CLA. I like
>> > America but I personally disagree her politically. (I am not a
>> > politician, ok? This is just my personal point of view :)
>> 
>> Well, realise that this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. "America"
>> isn't an entity that has one single coherent political view with which
>> one can decide to disagree. There are about 300 million different
>> politicial views in this country.  Many of them are bound to fall on
>> either side of yours.
>> 
>> I noticed the other day that a poll was run in various middle eastern
>> countries asking their views of America.
> 
> America, America ... not all of America is the USA. There are about 30
> other countries on this continent!
> 
> US citizens tend to see their country as encompassing the whole world.
> Even we in Germany (or even whole of Europe?) are infected with this
> disease by feeling forced to speak of US citizens as "Americans".

I am a human - which is another name for Norwegian citizen :-)

reinert