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Re: TV: Bell & Baird"Scots who made the modern world"

In article <7lbes0F3co2foU1@mid.individual.net>, George Weston
<geoweston@NOSPAMgooglemail.com> wrote:

> "Dave Devnull" <dev.null@invalid.local> wrote in message
> news:4af077c4$0$2487$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
> > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:44:46 +0000, Richard Brooks waxed with flowery
> > words of wisdom:
> >
> >> Dave Devnull said the following on 02/11/2009 18:52:
> >>> What gets me is we can use Scot, for a Scottish. We can use 'Brit'
> >>> for British. We even use 'Yank' for American.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps someone can come up with a four letter abbreviation for
> >>> someone from Pakistan?
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions as November is 'White Achievement Month'.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> You're switching from national groupings to a racial type which is not
> >> the same thing.
> >
> > Is that so? So there is no such race as the Scots, Brits or Yanks and
> > the People of Pakistan don't belong to a National group. Thanks for
> > clearing that up.

> The Yanks are a "race"? Take a history lesson, Dave. Apart from the
> Native Americans (you'd probably call them Red Indians), who are pretty
> well still "racially pure", the vast majority of them are either direct
> immigrants or descendants of immigrants from every country in the world.

and even some, or all, of the "native americans" probably came from asia.

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