American-ness [was RE: even my dumb nontechnical anime group gets it -- why don't we?]

[Paul Prescod]

Owen Byrne wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> I wonder what you do call someone from the UAE? And I would love to see the
> inanity that would result if France decided to rename itself "United States
> of Europe" and started using "European" as a synonym for "French."

By the way, if the EU stayed its current size, but deepened its bonds
until it was a Single Country, wouldn't you expect "European" to
increasingly mean "citizen of the EU" and exclude countries that were
not part of it? Or would we say "European Unionite?"

 Paul Prescod