<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On 17 January 2017 at 04:44, Javier Rua </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:javrua@gmail.com" target="_blank">javrua@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Yep. I know this is always a slippery slope! But it's fun and trivia filled (thanks for the History class!) </div><div id="gmail-m_-7358103647946044520AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-7358103647946044520AppleMailSignature">PS: How do we distinguish Canadian "<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Northern West-Hemispherians" from their Yankee neighbors to the South?</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">​Canadians by-and-large just don't think at all about this kind of thing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">We have a nice six-letter, acronym-free country name that is pronounced the same in every language. Our flag is both symmetrical and globally identifiable in monochrome. Our main I18N issues are that some languages prefer a K rather than a C, and that Spanish and Portuguese strangely put an accent on the last "a". Pretty small stuff.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">OTOH, we NEVER use the word America or American or even "part of the Americas" to describe any part of ourselves. Really, NEVER; the rest of you are welcome to the term and to argue over its appropriation as long as you like. We begrudgingly accept being part of a continent that includes the word, but unless forced by foreigners we avoid its use due to instablity (consider that NAFTA comprises just three countries and NARALO only two).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Heck, we didn't even join OAS until 1990.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So while we often get into domestic arguments about what is "culturally Canadian" there are zero difficulties with nomenclature, and we get to sit out discussions of (what seems to often be) silly minutiae over national names, symbols and acronyms.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Evan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div></div></div>
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