Abstract

Is Pan-Americanism a Joke - On Us

The article presents the author's views on North Americans. According to the author, North Americans lump the ten nations of South America into one. Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia they're all the same to them. Ethnologically, philologically, economically, and even politically they think of them as a unit. They do not grant them national individuality. According to the author, he has talked with people in all parts of their country, including their government officials at Washington. Almost without exception they referred to him, as a "South American." They spoke of "conditions in South America," of products and information that came from South America ; seldom of any special country. It did not occur to them, that they were talking to an Argentine, or that Argentina is as different from Venezuela, and Brazil as different from Chile, as the United States is from Australia.