From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 3 06:03:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA18912 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 06:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (mail.sni.de [192.109.2.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA18839 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 06:03:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nerv@localhost) by nixpbe.pdb.sni.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA13347 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:44:32 +0200 Message-Id: <199604031244.OAA13347@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> Subject: Re: Advice/Recommendation needed To: cat@ghost.uunet.ca (Cat Okita) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 96 15:59:55 MET DST From: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: ; from "Cat Okita" at Apr 3, 96 8:39 am X-Mailer: xmail 2.4 (based on ELM 2.2 PL16) Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I thought Canada still was in America. It's just the strange > > viewpoint of the inhabitants of the USA that America stops at its > > borders. Why the Canadians should agree with this viewpoint is beyond > > me. > > Canada is in America as much as Switzerland or France is in Germay. Canada is in America as much as Switzerland or France are in Europe. > Canada is in *North* America, but that's a slightly different kettle > of fish...(talbot, of course :>) Switzerland and France are in *West* Europe, but that's just a change of compass direction. Why allow the United States to claim to be all of America? Greg