Interestingly, Native Americans refer to their own membership as either tribes or nations. Do these groups in Africa form autonomous governments, making them making them nations or they simply culturally similar?
And on the jungles vs woods thing, I've known a fair number of people who have spent a lot of time in both and say that there is a difference. Though they never said it in exactly those terms, the words clearly seem pretty apt to these people. I've spent a bit of time in the woods myself and it aint a bit like what these fellas describe a jungle to be like.
This really sounds like some post hoc fallacy to me. We have woods, because we have woods. We have forests because we have forests. We actually DO have (if my geography serves me) a few jungles in tropical regions in U.S. territory - and they're very commonly refered to as such - in Hawaii, in Peurto Rico, possibly in other U.S. possessions.
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