Re: NEWS: MicroSoft's Spanish language problems
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 20:45 |
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Barbara Barrett wrote:
> Barbara Babbles;
> Would "native American" also be used to describe the indigionous peoples
> of Central and South America? I'd have thought that with such PC terms
> as "Afro-American" etc that "american" implied nationality.
In the case of "Native American", "American" refers to the whole Western
Hemisphere. If it referred to nationality, then I'd be a "native
American", since I was born here. :-)
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