Thread: An alternative view of the USA & some other countries

Agree with it-ogo and in addition:

Didn't South Americans invent the expression "Yankee go home"? They kicked out the Spanish several hundred years ago and it's old news.. But where the Spaniards stopped, the USA took over!

Originally Posted by Hanna

Didn't South Americans invent the expression "Yankee go home"?

I thought it was invented in Virginia.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

I thought it was invented in Virginia.

Depends what the home of a Yankee is:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.