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RE: What IS America?
October 21, 2011 at 10:09 am
Because the continent is North America, not America. The USA as a whole is America.
If you want to get technical the continents (south and north) are collectively known as the Americas, not America.
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RE: What IS America?
October 21, 2011 at 11:48 am
In english, maybe. We still call the continent as a whole "Amerika", because it'd be too awkward to call it in it's plural, "Amerikalar", which makes as much sense as calling Europe "Europes" or Asia "Asias" and etc.
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RE: What IS America?
October 21, 2011 at 12:47 pm
An upstart rebelious colony.
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RE: What IS America?
October 21, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Plutocracy requires only wealth. Nothing virtuous about it. Not much of a vice either.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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RE: What IS America?
October 21, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I was going to argue (I am an anarchist). But then I tied up my girlfriend. And now she can't walk. And it's all my fault.
This is America: Welcome.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day