As a "Yank" by choice (and I do know my fair share of european geography) I say DITTO THOM Omar At 12:56 PM 7/30/98 EDT, Thom Danicki wrote: >Kaszubik wrote: >> >> Hello Mister Danicki, > >> >> Paul, >> >>> "It happens often that people in the US are not quite familiar with >> >European >> >>> teritories and nationalities." >> > >> >This is probably the sad truth... As an example, how many Yanks on this >> >newsgroup know what nation Scotland is a part of? Many Yanks think Wales, >> >Scotland, Ulster, & England are each separate European nations... >> >> KK> I hate to burst your bubble Thomas, but not all Americans are fat and >> stupid. I'm certainly not a "Yank" either. Since we are testing our >> intelligence here, please tell the newsgroup, and the "Yanks," what a >> Slovincian is. You should know since they are a European group. > >(Please) get off your high horse, Keith. If you were born in New York, then >you are a Yank. If you're an immigrant, then why the defensive attitude? >Who said anything about testing intelligence? We were talking about the >average Yank's >familiarity with European geography. That's more an issue of interest & >attitude than of intelligence. > >As I am a native Yank, I don't have the foggiest notion of what a Slovincian >is. Nor do probably most of the Yanks on this newsgroup. To believe >otherwise would be naive, I think. I didn't learn until I was in my early >40s that England, Scotland, Northern Ireland & Wales are no long separate >European nations. You would certainly never guess that from watching any >broadcast of the average national network news here. We don't know about >European geography because so far in our history, it hasn't really been >relevant to our lives. An ocean on both shores can make for a lot of apathy >about some things... > >My grasp of geography in other continents is even worse. I can admit that.> > >> Keith A. Kaszubik >> Hamburg, New York near Buffalo >> > >-- >Thom J. Danicki [email protected] Rochester Hills, Mich. 48306 >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/n/Thomas-J-Danicki/ > Interested in fine art? Try: >http://members.aol.com/jdanicki/danickidesigns.html > >Now collecting data on the following surnames: >BOAT * BOTH * BRATTY * DANICKA/I * DELLIMER * GRASEL(L)A * GRECHOWICZ >GROCHOWSKA/I * GUZLAK * HASCZAK * HEALY * HUNKO(FF) * JOSWIOK * KIERNICKA/I >KLEINSCHMIDT * KOSYLAK * KUCHENMEISTER * MOLODYK * MORELL * NAKONECZNY * >PROC >RATAJCZAK * REID * SAS * SAWCZYN * SCHELL * WIECKOWICZ * ZAWADZKA/I * ZAZULA > > e-mail: [email protected] "When I am right, No one remembers ICQ 3828309 When I am wrong, No one forgets"