Who Are WE RV'ers Really?

fulltimedaniel wrote:

toedtoes wrote:

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.

The link is just a song. A rather jingoistic one at that. And is not the final word on anything.

The fact is the land mass of North, Central and South America are known as The Americas.

This makes ALL of us Americans the same that living in the land mass of Asia makes folks Asians.

Or Africans

Or Europeans

Now within that designation we are Citizens of Canada (Canadians) Chileans Brazilians and so on. Here in the United States we co-opted this term to describe ourselves as Americans.

So to say that the TERM AMERICAN is owned solely by those residing in The United States is incorrect...just as incorrect as it is for the Canadians to disavow it. Many folks south of us refer to themselves as Americans.

But in every day usage it has become normal for most of the world to ...wait...dare I say it?...LABEL us as Americans. But that colloquial usage does not mean that it is wholly correct or incorrect.