Americanisms

One of many common beliefs that we have been accustomed to accept as truth is that the North Americans are our continent’s “true Americans,” but this is not so, since an American is anyone born on any part of the continent. It is popularly known that all products made in North America are called “American,” but not those made in Mexico, Costa Rica or Panama. By the same token, only those people born in the North are referred to as “Americans,” even though any person born in any part of the region is American and every product manufactured here is American.

All those born in Central America or South America are disparagingly dubbed “Latinos,” omitting the word “American” altogether when actually, what the North Americans should really be called is “Anglo-Saxons.” Nevertheless, upon further analysis we reach the conclusion that Americans are the least American of all, because in reality they are Anglo-Saxon immigrants from Europe. They, upon colonizing the North, did not mix racially or genetically with the real indigenous North Americans: Indian tribes such as the Sioux, Comanche or Navajo.

On the other hand, the Spaniards who came to colonize Central and South America did in fact mix with the indigenous or native tribes who were the authentic Americans.

So actually, from this racial mixture sprung Hispanic Americans. These so-called Hispanic Americans are also more American than the Anglo-Saxons, because they are 50 percent Spanish and 50 percent indigenous, which is not the case with the Anglo-Saxons.

Another bad force of habit would be referring to an American Embassy exclusively as a U.S. Embassy. In reality, any embassy in a Hispanic-American country is an American embassy.

So along those same lines of thinking, the Guatemalan Embassy in Panama should be referred to as an American Embassy.

That would be the same as calling the U.S. citizens North Americans instead of referring to them as Anglo-Americans or “Anglos” for short, just like they refer to us as “Latinos” thereby leaving out the real roots of origin.