America and Americans / Europeans

Donald M Lance lancedm at MISSOURI.EDU
Fri Feb 22 04:16:53 UTC 2002


on 2/21/02 9:13 PM, Laurence Horn at laurence.horn at YALE.EDU wrote:

> At 7:29 PM -0500 2/21/02, David Bergdahl wrote:
>> "Are Finns Europeans?"
>>
>> I'd say yes: the dividing line in the north is the Urals.
>> ___________________
> Whether or not they're Scandinavians is a bit trickier.  I'm told
> (that is, I was told by Finns when I was in Helsinki) that
> technically they aren't, although most non-Finns consider them to be.
> (It's a geographical, rather than cultural or linguistic, parameter
> that's crucial.)
>
> larry
>
The intention of my question was "What would an American think or say?"  For
many Americans, Mexico would be in Central America and England would be in
Europe.
DMLance



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