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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 4013583, member: 730"] The discussion was about whether only US citizens are the only Americans or whether all North and South Americans are also Americans. I was unaware that The Ivory Coast, and Morocco were entirely in the Western Hemisphere. Did this happen when the pope divided the "uncivilized world between Spain and Portugal? People in Cuba and most of the rest of the Caribbean Islands consider themselves Latin Americans. The major league baseball is filled with Dominicans and other "Latin Americans". Why did we try and usurp the word for ourselves? Canadian and Mexican roll off the tongue. How would you like to refer to yourself as an United Statesian. It is clumsy to say. :) If I approached a thousand Cubans and asked whether consider themselves Latin American I think most would say yes despite whatever their government may say. * - insert "North and South America" [/QUOTE]