That was only one of the points I made. Since you ignored the rest of my comment, and mentioned my username, it really doesn’t seem like you’re saying this in good faith.
People assuming “American” means resident of the USA is a problem.
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plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 4 hours agoWhen someone says American, they mean a USA resident. I don’t know anyone who would assume they mean a Canadian or Mexican, since you use those terms for them.
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Why? You have North Americans and South Americans to cover the others?
What else would you need to include in the term Americans?
ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
North America is Canada and the USA. And there’s also central America, which isn’t included in those two terms.
It’s a problem because ignorant USians think of themselves as the center of everything, and referring to them as “Americans” further entrenches this selfish world view.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
North America is Canada and the USA. And there’s also central America, which isn’t included in those two terms.
Just casually ignoring Mexico as part of North America says everything I need to know about how intelligent you are.
Name checks out, you’re obtuse.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
What countries have the word “America” in them? How many countries in the Americas are “united States”?
What do you call a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?For the record, The United States of America is the only country with the word America in it’s name. Our immediate neighbor, The United Mexican States, is another country you could, but no one would, plausibly call the United States.
The British isles contains two countries, Ireland and the UK. One of these is the home of the British, and the other would be much happier if you didn’t call them that.
Insisting that you not refer to the people of a country by the most unique name in the countries name, because the geographic region has that word in common is … Odd.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The whole world used that term, since the other countries are covered by other terms, or other encompassing terms like I explained already.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 hours ago
In English, the correct demonym for a citizen of the United States of America is “American”. There have been others that somewhat are accepted but are not universal like “Yankee” which half the population would take great offense to.
It isn’t centering the world on us to call ourselves Americans, it’s the only thing that works in the language and is accepted by everyone it applies to. Call a Canadian an “american” and watch how quickly they correct you.
I’ve seen people propose “United statesian” but there 2 problems with that, first it does not flow well in English, second that doesn’t actually fix the problem since there’s still be ambiguity with people living in the United Mexican States.
Luca@lemmygrad.ml 3 hours ago
“Central America” is in North America. Racists just pretend it’s not so they don’t have to mentally grapple with brown people natively being on the same continent as themselves.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Your point being you are making up a new definition and calling everyone else wrong?
Bold move cotton.
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
Thank you for being sane.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Dude feels like a flat earther about this.