[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Accented English

[Terry van Ettinger]

I haven't weighed in much on this thread...but really, people who don't know
New Mexico as a state?  (hope this isn't too political; incendio me if it
is.)  Anyway, it seems strange that people wouldn't know the US states; I
was quizzed on them several times in 4th grade.  That's about 9-10 years
old.  Do some people forget that, or do they not get that part of education?

Terry
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Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:50 AM
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Accented English


> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "blpurdom" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> > > At least they knew that NY and Oregon are both in the US.  There
> are people in the US who do not know that New Mexico is a US state.
> > > Evidently there are some who think it is another country which
> broke away from Mexico.
>
>
>
> As a native New Mexican I get soooo tired of this. Sometimes when
> visting other states being told you speak really good english, you
> don't even have a spanish accent. I never even learned spanish until
> I was in high school and I don't speak it that well even now.
>
> Oh and I also love this one "did you have to get a visa?" No but I
> have a mastercard. OR Do you have cars there and paved roads?
> Running water?  Do you you still have to ride horses?
>
> I'd like to know what they teach these people in school. Granted New
> Mexico doesn't have the best educational system in the country but we
> at least know all the states.
>
>
>
> >--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
>
> > Well, in a way they're partly right, since it used to be part of
> Mexico, LOL!  I think
> > those are the same people who wonder if they need a passport to go
> to Hawaii.
>
>
> And just a little history note, New Mexico was not the only state to
> belong to Mexico in the early to mid 1800's.
>
> The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended
> the war with Mexico. It confirmed U.S. claims to Texas and set its
> boundary at the Rio Grande.  Mexico also agreed to cede to the United
> States, California and New Mexico. This included what is now
> California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah as well as parts of New Mexico,
> Colorado and Wyoming. The purchase price was $15 million and
> assumption by the United States of claims against Mexico by U. S.
> citizens. The U. S. Senate ratified it on March 10, 1848 and the
> Mexican Congress on May 25.
>
> The New Mexico Territory 1850 - New Mexico (which included present-
> day Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah and southern Nevada) is
> designated a territory, but denied statehood. In 1863 the territory
> is split in half creating the Arizona territory. By 1912 what is
> present day New Mexico becomes the 47th state in the Union.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kristin
>
> :who will now step off her New Mexico is a state soapbox:
>
>
>
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