Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?
Randomunemployment@lemmings.world 1 year ago
It’s always been funny to me when latin Americans get pissy at the term American being used to describe the country who’s president is Biden ( said with love as mx) . They always try to correct Americans to “estados unidenses” United Statean. Which in my opinion doesn’t work for 3 reasons. First name recognition most of the world associate Americans with 'merica. 2nd it’s a difficult set of words for Anglo speakers especially vs Americano. Thirdly there are actually 2 countries thats proper name include “United States” those are united states of American and United States of Mexico, who colloquially are known as America and Mexico respectively.
EternalNicodemus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am brazilian, and “estadunidense” works perfectly for our daily needs cuz ya know, no one mentions Mexico as “United states”
JonEFive@midwest.social 1 year ago
Oh, fun - I just used Brazilians as an example in another comment. Would you ever say “I’m American” when you’re talking about your continent?
EternalNicodemus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes! But usually we are more specific by saying “I am south american”