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!@#$%! · 11.13.2006, 03:03 PM

see, fools, everyone is right here.

sure america is a continent like europe or africa, continents inhabited by europeans and africans. well, people from the american continent call themselves americans.

the problem comes from the fact that
estados unidos do brasil = brasil
estados unidos mexicanos = mexico
united states of america = .... ?

the name came up when the rest of the american continent was under spanish, french or english rule, so it wasn't "officially" anything.

get used to it, the gringos have monopolized the name because the took it first... bizarre, as if there was a country called "united states of europe" which did not include the whole continent, but there you go.

11.13.2006, 03:03 PM	#68
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,731	see, fools, everyone is right here. sure america is a continent like europe or africa, continents inhabited by europeans and africans. well, people from the american continent call themselves americans. the problem comes from the fact that estados unidos do brasil = brasil estados unidos mexicanos = mexico united states of america = .... ? the name came up when the rest of the american continent was under spanish, french or english rule, so it wasn't "officially" anything. get used to it, the gringos have monopolized the name because the took it first... bizarre, as if there was a country called "united states of europe" which did not include the whole continent, but there you go.
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