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Sat Aug-20-05 08:48 AM
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13. There's a lot of different terms for us in Mexico...

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I not sure why that happens. I've read somewhere that throughout history, the names we commonly use for tribes, countries, etc...often come from other people talking 'about' a certain tribe or country (and often may have been descriptive -- or disparaging -- slang), rather than the words that nation used to refer to itself.

I think that most commonly, a nation's name for itself would translate into simply 'The People', rather than something more descriptive.

In other words, I think a culture using it's own term for a foreign culture is a somewhat common thing to do around the world, historically speaking.

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