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College is going great, my job too (but it's awfully hard to accomplish all the tasks I have everyday)

On this journal, I'd like to make a couple comments...

1)I'm really happy that many people are using lang-8. I most say a lot of people made great progress during this year.

2) Miss Universe aired last night. Our candidate, Ada Aimee, was the 1st runner up. It was nice to see that 3 of the 5 finalists were Latin women, aren't they just beautiful? Miss USA was my second favorite girl of the night. What do you think of this competition ( I mean Miss Universe as a hole) Do you think it promotes external beauty over real values? Is it just a tradition?

Posted at Mon Aug 24 19:30:11 UTC 2009
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Innocent_Boy:

Well, as I live in Central America, which is part of America.....I most be American, right?...

Wise_Mommy:

Mmmmm yes.......but no. "American" is the term used to refer a US citizen.

Innocent_Boy:

But, why? It is not fair, I'm American too (some tears falling)

Wise_Mommy:

Well, there are several theories. The most popular one is that as they were always the bigger and most powerful of all countries in the continent, they simply took the name.

Innocent_Boy.

That's a stupid theory...

Wise_Mommy:

Yes you are right. There's another one, also quite popular. The US is a country forged by immigrants most of them from outside this continent. Those people came to America, the only piece of land in the other side of the world, but they were really getting to the US, the land of opportunities. So, time passed and the people living over there called themselves Americans.

Innocent_Boy:

Ok, you see, I like that one.

Wise_Mommy:

But this is the one I believe . Their official name is United States of America. It's a terrible name! How would you call someone from that place? Unitedstadian? Unitedian? Those name just couldn't represent them well or just sounded stupid.

Most countries had a unique name (Colombia, Argentina, Japan, China, England, Australia, Germany) and it's very easy to form a gentilic (Colombian, Japanese, Chinese, German). So they took the only part of the official name which was...usable.

Innocent_Boy:

Ohh. Wow. I understand now...poor unitedstedian people...

(I didn't wright this because I hate US or something like that, in fact I love that country and half of my family lives over there)

Any other ideas of way Americans are called that way?

Posted at Thu Jul 03 13:07:40 UTC 2008
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