"Irishisation" of names to get elected

Well, (the fictional) Don Corleone was Italian ...

When discussing the Asian experience in America prior to WW II, it is more likely that the immigrants came through Angel Island.

 

I hate to be picky, but my Mexican wife would not let this pass. Mexico is in North America...
(By the way President Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City to a wealthy Mexican-Spanish family, with a father of part-Irish American descent. Could explain the name).

My company has a large base in Shanghai. Many of the Chinese use 'Western' nicknames, maybe because they were fed up of us making such a mess of their names!

EXAMPLE - Xiao Lan Wang is known as Emily.

Seems to work for us.

Peace,

Seamus Paddy O'Riordan

 

Yes, yes, Mexico (next to which I live, is certainly in North America (pero Los Mexicanos nos llaman "Norteamericanos", no?). I should have said, "Latin" America.

Sheesh.

 

Normalemente el nobre para Americanos = Gringos, nada mas! (Pero tienes razon amigo).

Bullet and Miguel must be shaking their heads at that effort...

 

Not...

Dangit weren't we talking about the Irish! And wasn't Mr. Corleone really Sicilian....

 

Re: Not...

Yes, DTech. And this sort of confusion normally signifies the death of a thread.
RIP
Jack

 

I was once excitedly called an 'imperialist' by a group of Latin Americans for saying exactly that.

I think that geographically Mexico is part of the North American continent, like everything north of the Panamanian isthmus. But Latin Americans apparently don't see it that way. They often call residents of the United States 'Norteamericanos' and to their ears our saying that Mexico is in North America is tantamount to saying that Mexico belongs to the United States.

They couldn't tell me what continent Latin American geography classes say Mexico is in, they were too busy sputtering at my sheer gall.

(Of course, our referring to ourselves as 'Americans' isn't much different.)

There isn't any law that says that Latin Americans have to have Spanish (or Portuguese) surnames. There are large communities of Argentines and Chileans of British and Irish descent. In fact the 'George Washington' of Chile, the guy who led their early 19'th century independence struggle against the Spanish, was a guy named Bernardo O'Higgins. One of the main streets of Santiago is named for him, Alameda O'Higgins. The province immediately south of Santiago is named for him as well. The first admiral of the Argentine navy was a man named Brown. Warships in the Argentine navy proudly carry historic Argentine names like 'Drummond'.

There are large German immigrant communities in both Chile and Brazil. Brazil has received lots of Japanese immigrants, so Peru's Fujimori isn't alone down there. And they tell me that there are more people of Italian descent in Buenos Aires than Spaniards. (There's lots of Jews there too.)

 

Brazil also has lots of Confederados who came to that country after the American Civil War.