>>>>>>Part of this problem may have been created by the founders of the USA when they named it the 'United States of America'.
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>>>>>Well it is on the continent named North America so it should be the United States of America or maybe on America.
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>>>>Isn't Mexico in America and composed of states which are united in one country?
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>>>There wasn't any 'America' or 'North America' when Mexico first became it's own country was there? :o)
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>>Not that I quite follow you, but it is/was meso-America
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>>Oh, and you know me, can't help pointing out the possessive "it's" :-(
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>That feeling of helplessness is so bad, you know. As in
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>"she told me to help myself, but I couldn't help myself so I just helped myself instead and then she slapped me".

Aye, but what's that got to do with the discussion above it?

Two girls went for a tramp, but the tramp died.