Re: FSE misnomer (what you call where you live)

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>Datum: 10. Okt 2000 20:41
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> re: discussion of place names and names for the populace. 
> 
> I doubt all NAC citizens or charges will think of themselves as 
> Anglos. South and Central America? Quebec? Canada? Mexico? More 
> likely people will be "citizens of the NAC" but have regional names. 

[snip] 
> These kind of national rivalries won't go away, but like Quebec's 
> relations with Canada, will be softened by economic prosperity and 
> by some devolution of power to the local communities. 
> 
> The description of the FSE in Jon's books (written by an Anglian I 
> notice)reflect a cultural predjudice up front. In French, it would > 
be Etats Federal Europa (gender?). In Italian, something quite 
> similar  sounding I believe (thanks Karl Heinz!) . I believe most of 
> the languages of these countries would end up calling themselves 
> the EFE. FSE is just an anglicism (or is that Anglianism?) of the 
> correct naming. 
[snip]
> comeback in a NAC that owns all of North and South America... 

Indeed, and without wanting to offend anyone, the GZG future history is 
heavily anglo-centric. 

I have considerable problems believing that the NAC could integrate 
Latin America as smoothly as the GZG history makes it out, especially
given 
the superiority complex many (real, present-day) Anglos have over the 
Latinos, which is unlikely to go away, and the long history of tensions 
between North and South America. Plus, if the NAC has devolved power to 
local communities and is something of a democracy, how come there is 
virtually no trace of Spanish or Portuguese in the names of places,
ships 
etc., both in the official books and on the websites ? After all,
Latinos 
would be roughly half the population of the NAC.

Greetings
Karl Heinz