Salmon Rushdie, "The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey"

      I asked my well-worn question: "What do you think the government should do, then? Should it try and make peace with the Americans?"
     "You said 'Americans'," she reproached me.
     "I'm sorry. North Americans. Unitedstatesians. Reaganians. Them."
     "It's alright," she forgave me quickly. "When I first came to Europe from Nicaragua, it would shock me to hear the US called 'America.' I wanted to protest, But we are America, not just them. But now I say it too: America, Americans. Europe teaches you a different perspective."
     "Yes," I agreed, "it certainly does."
-Salmon Rushdie, "The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey", 1987