--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell <knm@m...> wrote:

> Lowell/Mike,
>
> >While the contortions of the EU as to what and where their

various rules

> >do and do not apply are quite amusing to us Americans
>
> And it becomes harder to understand when people consider the

various

> appendages to be a single political unit.

Especially when little heed is paid to where the BOUNDARIES are
which geographically separate what may or may not be politically
integral or non-integral.

> >we have our own idiosyncrasies that defy understanding elsewhere

(and

> >sometimes here).
>
> My point exactly. It could well be argued that Puerto Rico and the

USVI are

> an integral part of the US in the same way that DC clearly is, but

how then

> do you deal with the likes of the Northern Mariana Islands?
>
> This said, it's not my place to argue about what people in

different

> countries consider to be integral or otherwise. I merely raised

the issue

> because we so often see tenuous claims based on misunderstandings

of realities.

Focus on the boundaries.