Article: "My fellow Americans," how do your online marketing language and attitude translate globally?(Editing)(Critical essay)

In a recent issue of Subscription Marketing newsletter, Peter Schaible, editor-at-large at the Mequoda Group, wrote, "Americans are generally egocentric. I am an American, so I feel especially entitled to make this criticism.

"By that I mean we're very focused on the U.S. of A. as being the center of the universe and often we don't have a 'world view' of things."

Stop right there, I wrote Peter. Many people who are not from "the U.S. of A" recoil at our calling ourselves "Americans," since the word can also apply to South Americans and Latin Americans and our North American friends to the north and the south--Canadians and Mexicans.

I don't ...

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