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Old 12-19-2010, 02:50 PM   #17
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I never said that you cannot call yourself "American". You of course can call yourself whatever you want. I just said that I refuse to call U.S. citizens "Americans", even though that is the accepted convention in english.
That's a silly argument. You've said yourself that you call yourself an American, because you live on the American continent. Why should not a citizen of the United States call themselves an American for precisely the same reason?
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