From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Bud Frede wrote:   
   > (I don't like the term "American," because it assumes that only the US   
   > is important out of all the countries in the Americas.)   
      
   Language is an evolutionary thing.  It has been many decades since I   
   'griped' about calling the US 'America' -- but, geographically the   
   Americas consist of N America and S America, and gradually America   
   (without qualifier) 'came to' mean the US to 'everybody' including all   
   of those people in all of those other countries of N & S America.   
      
   I think saying 'USian' or such is fine, I tend to refer to people of or   
   their countries by their 2 letter country names when I'm posting msg/s   
   on usenet, such as .us or .jp.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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