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American

2009-10-06T23:19:12Z

Valuesvoter216:

The term '''American''' in common parlance around the world, means "resident of the United States", or "pertaining to the [[United States]]." Thus: American citizen, American history, American foreign policy.

Leftists in recent years have attacked this meaning, claiming falsely that all the residents of North and South America are just as much Americans. They claim falsely that people in Latin America are offended. They want no one to use the term.

In fact people outside the United States almost never call themselves "Americans", and almost always linit the term to the U.S. The people of Canada, for example, almost never call themselves "Americans."

The term "North America" usually refers only to the U.S. and Canada, but sometimes Mexico is included, as in the "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA).

In Spain, the Spanish term "Americano" means someone who lived in Spanish Latin America and has now returned to Spain.

The term "[[Latin America]]" (and "Latin American") was invented by the French in the 1860s as part of their goal of controlling Mexico. The term has caught on and usually means the resident of any Spanish-speaking or Portuguese speaking country south of the U.S.

==Further reading==
* Villafañe G. Santo, . Luís Cláudio. "American, United Statian, Usamerican, or Gringo?" ''AmeriQuests'' (2005) 2#1 [http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ameriquests/viewarticle.php?id=21&layout=html&OJSSID=4d93ed8e8b059174a7b4b41c3d215eff online edition]

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Talk:American

2009-10-06T22:54:47Z

Valuesvoter216:

Central America isn't its own continent. [[User:GodlessLiberal|GodlessLiberal]] 21:11, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

What about the Caribbean countries? Are they not part of the Americas? [[User:Sevenstring|Sevenstring]] 19:22, 29 May 2007 (EDT)

I wanted to edit this but wasn't sure if I was allowed. The statement about "Amerika" being used as a link to the KKK doesn't seem accurate to me. It's more likely that it comes from the 1927 novel by Franz Kafka titled "Amerika", or, less-likely, the propaganda magazine published by the State Department during the Cold War. It also seems like an aside that is unrelated to the other content.

--[[User:Valuesvoter216|Valuesvoter216]] 18:54, 6 October 2009 (EDT)

Eugene O'Neill

2009-10-06T22:40:13Z

Valuesvoter216:

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'''Eugene O'Neill''' (1888-1953) was an [[American]] [[playwright]] "famous for the bleak and tragic tone of his plays, which persistently examine the crushed hopes and dreams of the underprivileged."<ref>http://www.encyclopediaproject.net/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill</ref> His best-known plays include:

*''Anna Christie'' (1922);
*''Desire Under the Elms'' (1924);
*''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1931);
*''Ah, Wilderness'' (1933);
*''The Iceman Cometh'' (1939);
*''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' (1947); and
*''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1956).

Four of his plays, ''Beyond the Horizon'', ''Anna Christie'', ''Strange Interlude'', and ''Long Day's Journey into Night'', were awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and O'Neill received the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in 1936 "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy".<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html</ref> He is regarded as "one of the greatest playwrights in American history".<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/oneill_e.html</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/oneill/timeline/index.html Eugene O'Neill chronology]
*[http://www.eoneill.com/ eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O'Neill Archive]
*[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1936/index.html The Nobel Prize in Literature 1936]
*[http://www.nps.gov/euon/ Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site]

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