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I am a Primer Impacto Americana by Zsenicorpse 07/10/2006, 8:45pm PDT ACADEMIC FLAME WAR! "The descendants of those people who invented truly offensive terms seem to me to have no moral legitimacy to point fingers at anyone else. That being said, I promise not to use the term again! :) " " Several alternative possibilities were considered — the United States of Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, and Freedonia or Fredonia (whose citizens would be called Fredes) — but none found sufficient support to displace the prevailing title." "Even if he was born within one week of his father’s migration, the accident of birth in the Americas consigned him to subordination — even though in terms of language, religion, ancestry, or manners he was largely indistinguishable from the Spain-born Spaniard. There was nothing to be done about it: he was irremediably a creole. Yet how irrational his exclusion must have seemed!" - Academic commentary, or purple prose from pro-miscegeny romance novel? "t was only after the creation of the Republican Party, in 1870, that the idea of a “European” Brazil was seriously put in question. Its founding document, the "Republican Manifesto," stated: "We are from America and we demand to be Americans." " Be sure to check out the comments section: Comments on this article • photography sf photography sf (2006/06/24) • casino black jack poker online casino black jack poker online (2006/06/26) • aldactone aldactone (2006/06/26) • celexa celexa (2006/06/26) • celexa celexa (2006/06/26) • evista evista (2006/06/26) • Re: American, United Statian, USAmerican, or Gringos? Robert (2006/06/27) • Re: American, United Statian, USAmerican, or Gringos? Robert (2006/06/27)

I am a Primer Impacto Americana by Zsenicorpse 07/10/2006, 8:45pm PDT