>  MVDV> I have repeatedly asked the people that object to the use
 >  MVDV> of "USAian" to refrain from use the name
"Holland" to refer
 >  MVDV> to my country as it is wrong.

 >   Noted.

 >  MVDV> But they refuse, among other things, on the ground that
 >  MVDV> they know better how my country should be called than I do.

 >   "They" is a big word.   I notice only a couple of people
 > who are doing that -- and would easily suspect that they are doing it
 > strictly to jerk on your chain and aggravate you.

That could very well be as thay are mostle the same people that accuse me
of doint the same. As we say here: "Zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij
zijn gasten". (The innkeeper thinks his customers as trustworthy as he
is himself).

 >   Doesn't make it the right thing to do in either case, nor
 > does one action justify the other.

Only if the accusation of baiting is justified.

Cheers, Michiel

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