tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post6873140017922239904..comments2023-11-19T20:55:03.011-06:00Comments on I Was Crazy To Live In Reynosa: I Am American and You Are NotCrazy Ritahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02034624524218675347noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-64516509341225636132011-11-04T17:27:20.080-05:002011-11-04T17:27:20.080-05:00Wrong? Moi? I don't think so. Should I say you...Wrong? Moi? I don't think so. Should I say you are wrong because you live in Mexico and learn there are no continents called North and South America? And if you really live in Mexico, than you know that officially it is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, not the Mexican United States. Should I call the people from Belize by their former name, British Hondurans? Historically the lands to west were called the Americas but things change. Unless you are in Mexico.Crazy Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034624524218675347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-35143233189741371802011-11-04T17:09:19.816-05:002011-11-04T17:09:19.816-05:00Well, to start, you are wrong with your comment. P...Well, to start, you are wrong with your comment. People from the bottom of the continent (Argentina) to the very top (Canada) are Americans. The Whole continent IS AMERICA. The name was given after Amerigo Vespucci.<br /><br />So, we, the people from Mexico, from Honduras, from Peru, and the rest of the countries in this land, no matter if we are in the south or the north. WE ALL ARE AMERICANS, just like you.<br /><br />And by the way, here in Mexico, we all are American and we all live in the United States too. The Mexican United States, cause thats the official name of our country.Ftapiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11450289378245717054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-61571274903087319272011-10-31T20:00:44.452-05:002011-10-31T20:00:44.452-05:00@Richard, you're book sounds interesting. I wi...@Richard, you're book sounds interesting. I will have to order a copy.Crazy Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034624524218675347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-42585930824363919112011-10-30T02:04:21.085-05:002011-10-30T02:04:21.085-05:00"Americans" was used for the people of t..."Americans" was used for the people of this hemisphere for several centuries before there was a United States of... <br /><br />I've favored "Usanians" for people from the U.S. although around here, they're sometimes called "los invasores" in honor of our unfriendly visit back in the 1840s. That is, when they're not called "touristas".Richard Grabamnhttp://editorialmazatlan.com/books/gods-gachupines-and-gringos.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-17909775898294141222011-10-26T17:03:09.282-05:002011-10-26T17:03:09.282-05:00Dear Greenga, tell your students they would be Un...Dear Greenga, tell your students they would be United Statesians too. Or Estados Unidosenses :)Crazy Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034624524218675347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-45385144398248219792011-10-26T16:54:57.557-05:002011-10-26T16:54:57.557-05:00My students think we should call ourselves United ...My students think we should call ourselves United Statsians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-50950352441853677602011-10-26T13:58:57.698-05:002011-10-26T13:58:57.698-05:00I learn something new every day. Europeans learn t...I learn something new every day. Europeans learn there are 6 continents combining North and South America. Central America is not a continent so if you divide North and South America, where does Central America go? But geographers divide the world into regions. Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, North America, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Australia and Oceania. But we are still the United States of America so I am American. Now if we change our name to something like United States of the Midsection in the North American Region, what should we be called?Crazy Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02034624524218675347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2189569786825847268.post-72429428415728276522011-10-25T10:54:32.420-05:002011-10-25T10:54:32.420-05:00The thing here is that in Mexico, they consider No...The thing here is that in Mexico, they consider North and South America to be one continent called "America". (Different cultures have different ways of dividing the continents, learned that after I moved here.) Since Mexicans are from the continent of "America", they're technically "American".<br /><br />I blame the USA for picking a name that was already taken hahahahaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com