Who Are WE RV'ers Really?
It has occurred to me that much of the contentious discussion on this site that so infuriates the moderators and others is due in part to the varied ideas we have about just who is an "RVer" and the d...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:Veebyes wrote:
"Just like I am an AMERICAN....no hyphenated label needed just AMERICAN"
OK Old Biscuit, get your atlas out & think about this one. So, you claim to be an American. That is fine & true. So what is a citizen of Canada? What is a citizen of Mexico, of Guatemala, of Beleze, of Costa Rica etc.?
These are all countrys located in NORTH America, just like the UNITED STATES of America is located in NORTH America. That makes the citizens of all those countrys Americans also. Go to the United Nations building in NY. What is the name of the country on the desk in front of your representative? It is not America.:)
Hmmmm...Just sayin. When you are outside of the forest the trees look different.:)
North America is the continent and America is typically accepted as the shortened version of The United States of America which is a country on the continent of North America just as Canada and Mexico are. People from Canada are called Canadians, from Mexico, Mexicans and from America, Americans.
I think you need to check out the link I posted - it's not quite so simple.
