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If they stopped calling themselves "Americans", it'd be fine, but they call themselves as if they owned 2 continents (and they behave that way too). A renaming would be very much in order. Liberteria, The States, Trumpia, Costa to Costa, Burgerland, whatever.

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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What’s funny is the old usage of American was a slur to denote people who came from the New World from old money and “classical” tradition. Now people like you are mad that it’s now being embraced as an identity. Some folks can never be happy and want to share.

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- Katrisia@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Europeans saw us that way. If it ever was a ‘bad’ thing, it was because of their elitism. It was a matter of time the reclaiming of our dignity and our validity. Many Americans (continent) did so during their independence efforts (mostly 18th and 19th century). I found this:
  
  In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word’s meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider implications in the fields of discourse and has been described in terms of personal or sociopolitical empowerment. (Wikipedia)
  
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- atro_city@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  "My identity is neocolonialism and megalomania"
  
  I'm super mad right now.
  
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FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“USians”

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Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And nothing is stoping the people of other countries in the Americas from calling themselves American.

Iv met plenty of people from European countries that have called themselves European. Why the fuck can they call themselves after their Continent but we can’t?

How about you fuck off and not tell an entire people to change their name that they have used for hundreds of years just because you have a stick up your xenophobic asshole.

Yeah our leader is a right dipshit and a horrid human. But WE get to fucking decide what WE are called. Not you, so fuck off.

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