From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-21 22:50:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Christoph Grein Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:48:18 +0100 (MET) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1016779803 3150 137.194.161.2 (22 Mar 2002 06:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Content-MD5: aIaQvQhXQx67IxYUKFc+qg== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.1 CDE Version 1.2.1 SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: Christoph Grein List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21529 Date: 2002-03-22T07:48:18+01:00 From: dennison@telepath.com > Adrian Hoe 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".