On 6/14/07, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
A white actor is simply an actor, unless he's French. Sometimes he's from "San Francisco, CA", but rarely "San Francisco, California, United States of America". An actor from Paris is never just an actor, or even an actor from Paris --- he's a French actor, or an actor from Paris, France. This is because Americans realise that not everyone knows where Paris is, or which Paris is meant. The possibility that someone might not say "San Francisco? That means he's American!", however, is not worth discussing.
People actually do add ", [[United States]]" to the end of American place names, but they get reverted for pedantry more often than not, which upsets me just as well.
—C.W.