Comments on: Mexico Is Technically the ‘United Mexican States’ And Isn’t Too Happy About It http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/mexico-is-technically-the-united-mexican-states-and-isnt-too-happy-about-it/ Keeping You Current Thu, 23 May 2013 20:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Dru McKeown http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/mexico-is-technically-the-united-mexican-states-and-isnt-too-happy-about-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 Dru McKeown Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:11:21 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=7608#comment-1981 I always refrained from calling myself simply "American" to describe myself as being from the United States since it describes 2 continents. Instead I would simply say "from The States" meaning the United States of America. I never thought that it could be confused for another nation. What a very interesting article (and I admit it sent me on an hour long journey of looking up the history of Mexico, pardon me, the United Mexican States). I always refrained from calling myself simply “American” to describe myself as being from the United States since it describes 2 continents. Instead I would simply say “from The States” meaning the United States of America. I never thought that it could be confused for another nation.

What a very interesting article (and I admit it sent me on an hour long journey of looking up the history of Mexico, pardon me, the United Mexican States).

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