gah! I hate the new string syntax

[Alex Martelli]

"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 06:51:07PM +1300, Paul Foley wrote:
> | On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:33:30 -0500, D-Man  wrote:
> |
> | > What about one who is both English and Scots, yet never set foot on
> | > that island ;-)?
> |
> | AFAIK, nobody outside the US would admit the existence of such a
> | thing.  The American habit of calling themselves "Irish" or "Italian"
> | or whatever when they're not is *very* strange.  I've never heard
> | anything like it anywhere else.
>
> Heh.  Maybe Americans are very odd.  Wouldn't surprise me at all.  ;-)

Maybe.  OTOH, Italians born abroad (from parents who consider
themselves temporary immigrants, and fully intend to return "home"
when they've put enough savings aside) have traditionally called
themselves "Italians" whether that "abroad" was Northern America,
Argentina, Germany, Libia, or any of the several other countries
where Italian emigrants used to go.  (Of course, intentions to
return are not always carried out -- few are aware, for example,
that such an icon of French popular culture as Yves Montand was
Italian -- real name Ivo Livi, born of just-as-Italian parents
in a village near Florence; his father, a socialist, had to flee
[and ended up in France] when the Fascists took power, and Ivo,
as well as the rest of the family, followed him a while later;
I'm not sure when he changed his citizenship over to France).


> that I am not really American since none of my ancestors came from
> America.  "Real" Americans would be the so-called "Indians", or more

Why?  *THEIR* ancestors came from Asia over the Bering Straits,
after all (and following the line a while longer, one gets back
to Africa).



Alex