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True. But for the sake of Argument. (huh) We have North America which consists of the US of AMERICA and Canada.
Canadians refer to themselves of course as Canadians. They do not call themselves Canadians of America.
Then we have South America which is just the southern continent broken up into a bunch of not united individual entitities who call themselves Brazilians, Guatemalans, Peruvians, et al.....

Only in AMERICA do we call ourselves Americans..

When someone or anyone anywhere in the world thinks of the term America or speaks it....they sure dont think of Guatemala.



Kevin and All,
I thought of your very arguement as soon as I posted the other evening. By naming our country the United States of America, we can legitimately call ourselves Americans. You are also right that the name is used so commonly throughout the world that it would be silly to think otherwise. But my subtle intent wasn't lost on this group. (We are a very clever bunch) For us Americans the world certainly centers around us. We sometimes tend to have a myopic veiw of the world, and our news services don't always give the whole picture. My point was that I like to hear opinions and views from people living off the North American continent, like Bedoin and Primero and Gregorz and Ginas, and yes of course, Adey. Others too, don't feel left out. I use that information to gain some perspective on what is REALLY going on out there. At least, I try.

I didn't want to hijack mert's eloquent posting, and I didn't want to start a new little bicker-fest. I was only stating that I like to hear the views of others on non-motorcycle related topics, and if those comments come from distant lands, all the better. I also wanted to say that I like the term earthycrunchyhippietriumphchick. (Heh heh, cool! She said crunchy...)

It could be worse, we could be called "Vespuccians".

Regards,
Cody

I was born a long ways from where I was supposed to be. - Bob Dylan