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- From: ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez)
- Subject: Hollywood finches and contintental drift
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.030825.14363@math.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 03:08:25 GMT
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- Jane@suave.swdc.stratus.come writes "Since the house finch "called
- the Hollywood finch" came from the west coast, would.....,since we are still
- a part of North America, last time I checked."
-
- Oh, be still my frustrated geologist's heart!!!
-
- Most of North America is on the North American Plate. The West Coast of Cal
- is on the Pacific Plate, which means that we are actually not on this
- continent at all, we merely seem so because we are butted up against
- you people. I am never quite sure if we are the eastern most, or the
- westernmost part of Asia. In any case, we are not really, not geologically
- part of the rest of you people. We speak the same language, we vote in
- the same elections, but we are faking it. Behind your backs, we speak
- Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, etc. etc. Even the Native-born,
- caucsasian and non-caucasian English and Spanish speakers.
-
- We are a part of Asia.
-
- We float on the same piece of land with Japan, the Philippines,
- some of China...all those places. So think again. We are only faking
- it. And deep in our strange little hearts we know it. Which is why
- we are so weird...in YOUR eyes. In our eyes, it is you people who are
- weird. We are perfect!!!! (tee hee!!!)
-