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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:57:13 -0600
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] 135/3.5 repaired
Geesh. This seems like a good time to uns*ubscribe. I'll be off next week
shooting. Hope this thread runs its course pretty quickly. See you all
when I get back.
Joel W.
Andrew Dacey wrote:
>
> Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:
>
> > Huh? I don't get it. What's the contradiction between being Canadian and
> > being American? What continent is Canada on, if it's not America (which is
> > what I had thought so far)?
> > While Germans and Austrians are _not_ the same, none of them would deny
> > being European (which also goes for the French, Spanish, Italians,
> > Portuguese, .....).
> > So while, of course, Canadians and U.S.-Americans are not the same, how come
> > some Canadians insist on not being American?
>
> Well imagine if the continent of Europe was called France. Sure there'd
> be a distinction between being from the continent of France and the
> country of France, but how many Germans (or Austrians) would admit to
> being French?
>
> I have no problem with being North American, it's just that too often
> people drop the adjective. Plus, usually when people ask, "are you
> American?" they aren't thinking in terms of continent.
>
> --
> Andrew "Frugal" Dacey,
> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.tildefrugal.net/
>
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