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Originally Posted by tater
Mexicans are "Mexicans" when a country called "Mexico" exists, not before. "Americans" includes Native Americans who've been here since the Bering Sea ice bridge, does that mean we're 30,000 years old? (and since human migration went from North to South the US must predate the rest of the Americans (they hit Alaska before Canada)  |
But that's only true if you define "Americans" as denizens of the American continents. Commonly and (I think) in this context, "Americans" has to be defined as citizens of the United States, in which my argument on immediate ancestors still stands.