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And Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata is one of the two official names of República Argentina, copying predating names: the Dutch Republic (Provincias Unidas) and United States (of America, you know, stars and stripes).
Mexico is both in North and Central America (they are divided by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec), unless you divide America à la Gondwana/Laurasia in which case all Mexico is in North America as there's no a central one.
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Maybe after NAFTA treated was signed people has abandoned misconceptions in the States, but I can assure you that Mexico being part of Central America was massively held by people all around USA by 40's, 50's and 60's. Not only that, all the rest of America was either like Mexico or like Cuba or Puerto Rico. My parents sweated blood trying to explain to every kind of people there how it is actually during the time they lived in Boston, by the end of the fifties, before my birth. I keep a "long play" -Nat King Cole en Español- as a memento of those mythical times. All the songs are country Mexican sung with a hideous accent. But I suppose everything changes. My parents also took the plane to Miami and visited a lot of places before arriving to Boston. In some regions they had to travel by bus lumped together other white skins, all of them segregated from black people.
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Well, the notion of Mexico not being part of North America was definitely abandoned. Although I'm very embarrased to admit that a lot of people here still are completely ignorant about what Central and South America are like. It's because there is so little about it taught in schools. Many people here know little about Canada and Mexico, let alone Central and South America. I know few people that could name a prime minister of Canada, let alone the current prime minister of Canada. It's very embarrasing. Everything I learned from Central and South America is from travel books that I read recently, after getting interested in the Spanish language. I knew nothing before. (So embarrasing to admit...)
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Con respecto a Cole, yo hablo de lo que aprendí por experiencia y con el castellano como lengua materna. Claro que si presentan un disco lleno de mariachis éste tendrá mucho éxito ... donde abundan los mariachis. No te dejes llevar por las noticias de "ser un gran éxito" que preceden al lanzamiento del "éxito" -que es el "¡llame ya!" de todas las épocas- y que ponderan de rebote al circunstancial editor patasucia de Wikipedia, que sólo escribe de cosas importantes, como ser "grandes éxitos". Lo del hideous accent mejor ni hablemos ¡Alguien de la misma lengua materna del cantante aludido asegura que no! ¡Guau, qué evidencia! En última instancia, todo se reduce a que Cole ya era una figura de algún modo popular y mucha gente pagó por oirlo cantar de una manera que pudiera -a duras penas- entender. Me iba a entretener explicando el ritmo tónico anglo del acento de Cole entre muchas otras cosas, pero todo se reduce siempre a lo mismo: De un lado de la balanza Latinoamerica, del otro, un minúsculo átomo del mundo anglosajón: Cole. La propia estructura de tu respuesta y mi contra-réplica representa exactamente lo que estábamos hablando. Quod erat demostrandum.
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You also left out the emoticon with the polygraph. Read again all the thread, both English and Spanish.
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As for the other question, I couldn't find the answers. Maybe I didn't understand everything. -¿Es tu actual foto? -¿Porqué has usado "tú"? Quote:
Oh and I looked up Nat Cole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Cole
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