Jim415
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MONDAY, MAY 12, 2014
The "West" and other misnomers[/paste:font]
I often get justly criticized for using designations like "the West" or "Anglos" because they are misnomers. Frankly, I have to plead guilty to this offense because yes, I do use them, and yes, they are misnomers. Even saying "the Ukrainians" or "the Russians" is an oversimplification. My only defense is to say that I have to assume that the readers of this blog are intelligent and educated enough to understand that when I say, for example, "the Americans" I do not mean every single citizen of the United State any more than when I say "the Germans" in the context of WWII I mean every single living German person of that time. Still, I regularly feel a little guilty about using such possibly ambiguous categories and I welcome the opportunity to set the record strait.
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The "West" and other misnomers[/paste:font]
I often get justly criticized for using designations like "the West" or "Anglos" because they are misnomers. Frankly, I have to plead guilty to this offense because yes, I do use them, and yes, they are misnomers. Even saying "the Ukrainians" or "the Russians" is an oversimplification. My only defense is to say that I have to assume that the readers of this blog are intelligent and educated enough to understand that when I say, for example, "the Americans" I do not mean every single citizen of the United State any more than when I say "the Germans" in the context of WWII I mean every single living German person of that time. Still, I regularly feel a little guilty about using such possibly ambiguous categories and I welcome the opportunity to set the record strait.
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http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/
