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**maonnjtip** · 12-18-2005, 07:00 AM

To be geographically correct, it should not be refered to as "America", but people from the Nederlands refer to their country as Holland, even though it's only a province, and they call themselves Dutch, yet they are not part of Deutcshland.
People from the DR call themselves Dominican and not Dominican Republicans, and people from the USA call themselves Americans. So we sometimes hear the DR refered to as "the Dominican" as USA is often called America.
When we sneeze, we ask for a Kleenex, not a facial tissue.
Such is life. A lot of shortcuts and abreviations that make life simpler.

Your comment makes very much sense indeed..it is the ideology created in people's mind...people may call themselves that way just because they have been hearing it over and over for the last who knows how many years and also to make things easier for oneself...now another interesting fact...we all know that DR and Haiti were once called Hispaniola when it was discovered by the Spanish and the it was one of the first pieces of land discovered in America...so is the term Hispanic associated directly????

12-18-2005, 07:00 AM	#2
maonnjtip Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	To be geographically correct, it should not be refered to as "America", but people from the Nederlands refer to their country as Holland, even though it's only a province, and they call themselves Dutch, yet they are not part of Deutcshland. People from the DR call themselves Dominican and not Dominican Republicans, and people from the USA call themselves Americans. So we sometimes hear the DR refered to as "the Dominican" as USA is often called America. When we sneeze, we ask for a Kleenex, not a facial tissue. Such is life. A lot of shortcuts and abreviations that make life simpler. Your comment makes very much sense indeed..it is the ideology created in people's mind...people may call themselves that way just because they have been hearing it over and over for the last who knows how many years and also to make things easier for oneself...now another interesting fact...we all know that DR and Haiti were once called Hispaniola when it was discovered by the Spanish and the it was one of the first pieces of land discovered in America...so is the term Hispanic associated directly????
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