X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6be5c1722034a56b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-01 12:54:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!news2-2.free.fr!not-for-mail From: "Sebastian Pena" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <3bdc0ef9.18494503@News.CIS.DFN.DE> <3be06cc2$0$25357$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> <9rptag$u8o$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk> <3BE08C37.8090600@nospam.mac.com> Subject: Re: The Return of Mike Throll 3 (2/2) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:54:38 +0100 Organization: Garullas de Colombia Inc. X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3be1b689$0$2304$626a54ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Nov 2001 21:54:50 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.228.11.161 X-Trace: 1004648090 news2-2.free.fr 2304 213.228.11.161 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:9413 "Passenger Pigeon" wrote in message news:passenger_pigeon-536E96.04075901112001@news.la.sbcglobal.net... > In article , drsquare > wrote: > > > That's because in North America they refer to the natives as Indians. > > Probably because Americans are too stupid to realise that they're not > > actually Indian > > meh. the Indians were pretty stupid to live in a place called America > and not call themselves Americans, now weren't they? seems to me they > have only themselves to blame. They lived in what now is called America, that name came after the discovery, in honor to an explorer called Americo Vespucius(I don't know the name in English).......... And the Indian term was already dispersed. What I really don't like it's to see people calling America the USA, the use is extremely dispersed even thoug there a lot of other Americans actually not being from the USA. sps .|. (*.*) -