It could be the biggest sticking point in our society’s perception of the rest of the Americas.
Our portion of the two continents is the United States of America, and I have always used the first part of the name to distinguish exactly what I’m referring to.
YET TOO MANY people want to merely use “America” to refer to the nation, when that really is the stretch from the western tip of Alaska to the southern tips of Argentina and Chile.
It’s as though acknowledging that there is more to the Americas south of the Rio Bravo del Norte/Rio Grande somehow diminishes our nation, which is about as ridiculous an attitude as one can take.
That attitude is strongly at work in the move before Congress to have the United States (they'd argue America) drop out of the Organization of American States.
I could go on a lengthy rant. But the Los Angeles Times probably stated the issue better in an editorial they published this week. It definitely is worth your reading. And I shall return Monday with original commentary.
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That attitude is strongly at work in the move before Congress to have the United States (they'd argue America) drop out of the Organization of American States.
I could go on a lengthy rant. But the Los Angeles Times probably stated the issue better in an editorial they published this week. It definitely is worth your reading. And I shall return Monday with original commentary.
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