How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨valveman@lemmy.eco.br⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?

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LackingC10H12N2O@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
'Murican 🇺🇸🍔🍺🏈🗽

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- pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  FUCK YEAH!! 🔫🔫🔫🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷✝️✝️✝️🦅🦅🦅🦅
  
  (I’m from NJ)
  
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  - CM400@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    🪨🇺🇸🦅
    
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  - Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Patriot inspector here. You’re short 5 guns, 2 Merican flags, and 2 crosses. 4 eagles is the bare minimum you’re just skating by here.
    
    Do yourself a favor and get yourself some golden arches while you’re at it.
    
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FraidyBear@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s not a clear and conscience alternative to “American.” If you’re trying to differentiate us from other people from the Americas you’d just say US Citizen. And while yes the entirety of this hemisphere is some variation of America be it North, Central, or South the other countries here have distinct names and we really don’t.

At the risk of sounding like a typical US asshole, here goes nothing. This is how I’ve explained it to friends from Europe and it seemed to help.

If Brazil had decided to go by the name “United States of Brazil” we would still call them Brazilians because there is another country with the title “United States” that also exists. Similar to how we call people from the Peoples Republic of China, Chinese. We don’t call them “People’s Republicans” because that’s a title not a unique identifier or name. What if that same country decided to go by the name the Peoples Republic of Asia instead, would we call them Peoples Republicans or would we call them Asians?

The title “United States” is telling you that this area is united together and the borders represent states. “America” tells you where those united states are, the continent of America. The term “American” is generalized and honestly doesn’t accurately represent the vast cultural differences within the United States. The states often have their own rights and laws separate from the US government and also unique cultures. Ideally we would be called by our states name for its citizens like Californian or New Yorker, for example. Similar to how you would refer to people from Europe as European unless you wanted to be specific to Italy, then you’d say Italian. But sometimes you need a general term, hence “American.”

All that being said, it is problematic and a massive reminder of this country’s bloodthirsty and genocidal colonization of a large part of North America. Looking at the country’s past shows that they were very much trying to also get central and south America as part of the United States. What better way to propagandize and make it look like they had every right to the rest of the Americas than to make it appear as though this country or that country already was America and therefore should be part of these United States? But however problematic it is this is the name we have now, for better or worse.

As an addendum of sorts. We Native Americans would often much rather be called by the names of our sovereign Nations yet everyone calls us Native American. Why is that? Food for thought that might help with understanding the problematic struggle we have here. It’s not simply us as citizens that perpetuate the issue, it’s a global colonization effort whether the others realize they are participating or not. (Spoiler: they realize)

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- valveman@lemmy.eco.br ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  First off, thank you for your great response.
  
  And yeah, I kinda get that “United States” is just a title, but in my native language (portuguese) we have a specific word for americans: “estadunidense”, which basically means “person born in the USA”
  
  I was just wondering if there was a similar word in english that could be used specifically to these people, just like we have in portuguese. But again, thanks for your answer.
  
  Also, fun fact: Brazil was actually called “United States of Brazil” for a short period, and our flag looked like a copy of yours, but in yellow and green. But then our king (thankfully) decided to go just by “Brazil”
  
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  - ElmiHalt@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Can’t spell “ustadunidense” without “dense”, can you?
    
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  - FraidyBear@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s so interesting! I didn’t know that Brazil was also a “United States.”
    
    I wish that there was a name for US Citizens in the same way but with English being such a shit show combination of too many different languages, I don’t know if that’ll be possible. The only way I see it happening is if the US just “adopts” a word from someone else’s culture, that’s usually how English gets a new word or term.
    
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  - azurekevin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One way around it is just to say “I’m from the US”. I know it’s not quite what you asked but based on what everyone else has said about why we’re simply “Americans” then I suggest this as an alternative. Also like they said, referring to yourself by state of residence works too, for instance “Texan” or “Californian” since they’re basically just as well known as the US itself at this point.
    
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- electrogamerman@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  If Brazil had decided to go by the name “United States of Brazil” we would still call them Brazilians because there is another country with the title “United States” that also exists.
  
  You dont have to make up an example. Mexico’s real name is United states of Mexico, and we call it mexico and Mexicans.
  
  Source: am mexican
  
  (And I hate Americans as much as the average person)
  
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- nobleshift@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - FraidyBear@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No problem, I’m always happy when someone is interested in learning more! I’m Muscogee Creek, specifically Thlopthlocco but Creek or Muscogee is preferable and easier for everyone lol. I’d recommend some books. One is not too long and it’s the one I would start with, it will help reframe a person’s understanding of who indigenous people are which I think is essential. Otherwise all further learning is being done behind a false idea of who Indigenous people are. Something I remember most from this book was along the lines of, “for many people Indians don’t exist and if they do exist it’s outside of their preconceived notion of who they are so to them they aren’t real Indians. They have placed themselves as the experts on what it is to be Indian.” The books, All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans by Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. The second would be, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    
    Id you’d like something quick and dirty online the War of 1812 was also the Creek Civil War, the first one. The Northern Creeks, my people, were fighting against being colonized further by the US, we didn’t want to be Americans or give away anymore of our country. Jackson, the president on the $20, and his army skinned Northern Creek people some still living and used our skin to make leather reigns for their cavalry horses. They then went to a nearby village slaughtered who they could and locked the remaining women, children, and elderly in their homes and burned them alive. He saved one baby, a boy, who he sent home to be a “pet” for his son, which is what he wrote in a letter to his wife. He meant to make an example of how we could be “civilized” and was going to send the Creek boy to West Point but the political climate had changed. Americans didn’t want to see Indians “civilized” anymore they wanted us gone. He was never going to be able to pass the Indian Removal Act if people saw we were just like them so he sent the Creek boy to be a saddler instead. He died of TB not long after. Then Jackson sent thousands of us, starving and freezing, on a death march across the country to Oklahoma.
    
    Totally more than you asked for but I got on a roll. It’s rare someone asks so I try to post as much as I can so people don’t have to go far to learn a bit more of the real history of the US. It’s important we know so we all can heal and move forward, together.
    
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- ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “vast cultural differences within the United States” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂
  
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- Randomunemployment@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I would argue against the annexation on central and south American and this would be purely a pedantic note.they want a hegemonic influence but not the responsibility of dominion over latin america. For instance They had backed an early coupe against mx that dethroned French backed mx emperor and conquered mx not too long after. They did not annex mexico. They backed a coupe to separate panama from its previous governing body, wrote extremely factorable terms for the canal, did not annex panama. Backed revolt against Spain in Puerto Rico and Cuba and didn’t annex either. Backed militants in Nicaragua and didn’t annex. Basically they want the resources but not want to build and maintain the roads, schools, police. Which is in my opinion is different than a complete land grab.
  
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- Jolan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What do you call someone from Panama?
  
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  - PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Panamanians
    
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ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In Australia we call them cunts.

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- Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You call everyone Cunts though.
  
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  - ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s if we like you, if we don’t then mate, if we want to physically hurt you with a word, we call you champ.
    
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- lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In Australia, you call your mates cunt and cunts mate
  
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  - BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not just down under, if I call you “friend” then I’m pissed
    
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- tVxUHF@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or Seppos.
  
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  - Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    For septics?
    
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  - Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or skip the rhyming slang and just say yanks. But usually not to their face, we’re toi friendly for that. :P
    
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- IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re not wrong
  
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- CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Rude, but fair…
  
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kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The proper term is American.

everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too

The implied context of your question is in English.. In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent. People from North America are North Americans; people from South America are South Americans. People from the United States of America are American. There is no ambiguity. There is also no good term to collectively describe everyone from the Americas but there’s also rarely any need to discuss that.

I consider terms such as “USonian” and whatnot to be highly offensive. Nobody should tell a people what they are allowed to call themselves in their own language just because the same word means something else in another language. It would be like telling French people they’re not allowed to call their arm a bras because it refers to an article of clothing in English. Other languages where America means something else already have their own terms for people from the US. English, however, has no real ambiguity except that caused by those trying to shame Americans for calling themselves Americans.

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- lazyslacker@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “highly offensive” lol wow chill out bud. It’s weird but doesn’t bother me at all. Let em call me whatever they want in whatever language they have.
  
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  - kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Telling people what they're allowed to be offended by is usually a bad choice.
    
    Let em call me whatever they want in whatever language they have.
    
    That's not what this is about though, which is precisely the point. In other languages, "America" means something else, and they all have other terms to refer to people from the US. The whole discussion is about what Americans should be called in English.
    
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- kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  People from North America are North Americans; people from South America are South Americans. People from the United States of America are American. There is no ambiguity.
  
  Thank you for eloquently responding to the pedantry underlying OP’s question.
  
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- valveman@lemmy.eco.br ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent.
  
  I didn’t know that, thanks.
  
  Nobody should tell a people what they are allowed to call themselves in their own language
  
  Look man, I’m not american and I didn’t ask the question to create some debate about the ethics or whatsoever. I just wanted to know if there was a specific word for that.
  
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  - kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Just to be clear, I didn't think that you were being offensive. It came across entirely as a good faith question from a foreigner, but it ties into (ironically arrogant) advocacy from some foreigners who call Americans arrogant for using the term American.
    
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  - milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent.
    
    I didn’t know that, thanks.
    
    Eh, I agree common and mostly unambiguous usage is that ‘America’ refers to USA, but even in English it feels incongruous sometimes.
    
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- HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent.
  
  Not true. North and South America were made up by the government to brainwash people. It’s a conspiracy.
  
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  - slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure, 4 out continents, but what about incontinence.
    
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  - hikaru755@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is about language, not geology. Doesn’t really matter how it came to be that way, North and South America are effectively treated as separate continents and very rarely referred to as a whole, and you saying “but actually” doesn’t change that.
    
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- Phrodo_00@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  It would be like telling French people they’re not allowed to call their arm a bras because it refers to an article of clothing in English.
  
  And yet I’ve seen so many Americans chastising Spanish speaking people for saying the color black in their own language.
  
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- Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent.
  
  You mean, in USA world.
  
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  - TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, it’s the entire English-speaking world, which actually makes sense since the practice originated with the British Empire long before American independence.
    
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morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“American” is the official name, though throughout history attempts have been made to find alternatives. You can read more on the Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/…/Demonyms_for_the_United_States

The only officially and commonly used alternative for referring to the people of the United States in English is to refer to them as citizens of that country.[18] Another alternative is US-American,[19] also spelled US American.

Several single-word English alternatives for American have been suggested over time, especially Usonian, popularized by architect Frank Lloyd Wright,[20] and the nonce term United-Statesian.[21]

Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.[22] Names for broader categories include terms such as Western Hemispherian, New Worlder, and North Atlantican.[23][24][25]

Nevertheless, no alternative to “American” is common in English.[18]

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- Devi@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nonce term?? Does that mean something different where you are?
  
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  - morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That sentence stumped me too, really weird wording
    
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- CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Yankee (or Yank) is a colloquial term for Americans in English; cognates can be found in other languages. Within the United States, Yankee usually refers to people specifically from New England or the Northern United States, though it has been applied to Americans in general since the 18th century, especially by the British.[26] The earliest recorded use in this context is in a 1784 letter by Horatio Nelson.[26]
  
  I might start calling Americans Yankees
  
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  - TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You will almost certainly annoy or piss off some Southerners (Those of the United States south of the Mason-Dixon Line, that is), then.
    
    So definitely do it.
    
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  - RaineV1@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If you call people in the Southern US a Yankee it won't end well for you.
    
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  - HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I prefer yankers thank you very much
    
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  - JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And Aussies take that another step further and say “Seppo” which is short for “Septic Tank”, which is rhyming slang for “Yank”.
    
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  - captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do it, it’s probably the best option really. Feel free to call us Yanks too. Unlike the others proposed it’s one where any of us will know what you mean
    
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- loopy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m definitely going to start using Usonian. It seems the most natural. We probably can’t use Colombian because… you know…that’s a country already haha
  
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  - Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Probably a good idea to put some distance between the US and the tainted legacy of Christopher Columbus, too.
    
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  - HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s with a U, Columbian. As in district of columbia
    
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AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I knew one that was called “Doug”. I’m not sure how much of a generalisation one can make from that though, but it seemed to work for him.

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- Bridger@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That settles it. People from the unites states shall henceforth be called “Doug”
  
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  - Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sweet. I already have a cat named pork chop!
    
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  - ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Are the Doug’s Funny?
    
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- TheHotze@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wait, I thought Dougs were the side characters from books who’s names are never relevant.
  
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kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Only one country on those contiennts has the word “America” in its name.

It’s commonly understood be all but the most pedantic that “americans” refers exclusively to inhabitants of the USA.

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- milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So they should call them American Americans, or Americericans for short; like I talk about English English because calling it British English implies Scots talk the same way.
  
  ;-)
  
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  - Kase@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lowkey solid answer
    
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  - JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’ve never had to differentiate before like I have in this conversation. I think I would say “US Americans” since it seems to adopt other languages calling us something like United Statesans without creating an odd word like Statesans.
    
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  - Rolando_Cueva@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why not England’s English?
    
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  - Granixo@feddit.cl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They could call themselves “States of America”
    
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rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
North and South America are so big and diverse that there’s really no usage for the term “American” being used to refer to everyone on both continents. US just took the term for themselves and no one really cared enough to complain

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- huginn@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Spanish speaking nations complain. They don’t mean USA when they say Americano
  
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DreBeast@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The sovereign people of any nation have a right to call themselves what they please. People of the US decided on ‘American’ long before the Internet was a thing and Latin America people got pissed off. US intervention in Latin America is a stain in history, but this is categorically dumb. US citizens call themselves Americans because it’s in the name. Literally. Canadians don’t call themselves Americans and never will. This is dumb argument. Respectfully.

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- valveman@lemmy.eco.br ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  First off, this wasn’t supposed to be an argument, just a question. My native language has a specific word for them (and some other languages have too) and I got curious if english itself had such a thing.
  
  Latin America people got pissed off
  
  Maybe it’s because people say “America” and everybody instantly thinks of the USA, even though you’re just another country in the whole continent? For these people you are stealing the word “american” and changing its meaning. People from Asia have the word “asian”, people in Europe got “european”, people in Africa got “african”, but we? We don’t have a meaningful word anymore. And I’m not saying it’s your fault or even it’s a fault of your founding fathers. I’m just trying to tell you why these people get mad.
  
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- PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Canadians actually emphasize north American culture when they talk about stuff they’ve got in common with us as opposed to trying to make “united statesian” work like the Spanish speakers
  
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- kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No argument is being made in the post.
  
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- TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It goes back to the colonies. In the British Empire the continental colonies were “the American colonies,” so British subjects from said colonies were called “Americans” for upwards of 200 years prior to the revolution. After the revolution, since Halifax was the only major continental port that remained in British hands, it made sense to call its colonists something else, while those to the south retained the name “Americans.”
  
  Conversely, the Caribbean possessions were called “The West Indies” or “The West Indies Station.”
  
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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Y en español les decimos estadounidenses. Porque son los putos Estados Unidos, y se la calan porque los cabrones no tienen la decencia de ser amables con sus vecinos.
  
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nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Language rules (in English at least) are descriptive not prescriptive. They try to explain why Americans are called Americans, not determine what they’re called. They’re called Americans, whether or not it’s the ideal descriptor, or fits with other names, that’s what they’re called.

Also most English speaking countries don’t have an “American” continent, they have North and South America as separate continents, so you would say someone is North or South American to refer to the continent, not just American. Similar to how some people consider Eurasia a single continent but very few people would identify as Eurasian.

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- DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Um
  
  AKSHUALLY
  
  It’s debatable that North and South America are separate continents. I prefer the continental plate system but some countries literally teach that there is an “American” continent that includes both landmasses.
  
  They also typically merge Europe and Asia, which is absolutely the right thing to do regardless.
  
  The reason you have this disagreement is that there simply isn’t a good, concise definition of “continent,” and because at the end of the day it only matters for semantics and racism.
  
  So the number of continents in the world is between 5 to 7, all debatably correct, depending on who you ask.
  
  Possibly even 4 if you want to get particularly spicy and say any large, connected landmass is a single continent, merging Africa, Europe, and Asia into a single entity.
  
  Which is also a more valid take than “Europe is its own continent because white people live there.”
  
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Resol@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I like to call them Muricans. Sure, it may sound super similar to “Americans”, but it’s different enough to sorta make things clearer.

I’m joking. This idea is horrible. Give me downvotes now because I have failed you.

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havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A US Citizen.

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Honestly, Yankee is probably the best. Some southerners won’t like it, and westerners will probably be confused, but we all know it means American and it’s the only real term for one of us that doesn’t lend the question “and why do we call you this and not people from the United States of Mexico this”. Our country’s name is unfortunately extremely generic.

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Massada42@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Estadounidenses

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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To add a bit of context, it isn’t arrogance or something that drives us to use “American” as a demonym, it’s just the linguistic norm. I don’t find any of the other names offensive (except seppo, but that one is meant to offend me), but most of us would probably do a double take at the term “USican” or “USian.” Virtually all of us would accept Yankee.

Further reading: the full name of Mexico is the United Mexican States. If we wanted to be pedantic, we could say that using the reference to the US would be ambiguous, as they too are technically a US.

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Randomunemployment@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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cia@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A “US-American” if you need to be very clear. But most people just say “American”.

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mixolyxo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
obese.

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Seraph@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I usually respond to "Hey stupid", maybe try that?

Don't actually try this.

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elscallr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The simple answer is really, no. Colloquially if you say “American” you’re talking about someone from the USA. We’ll further segregate ourselves into the States we’re from, which isn’t that different a distinction between “European” and “German”.

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BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As an American, I don’t really give a crap what nationality someone calls me as long as they’re not being rude. I honestly identify as a Floridian anyway. So, even if I met other Americans overseas, I’d think of them as from their state or cultural area (Plains, Appalachia, Southwest, etc.).

I don’t expect people outside of the US to know the difference even though the US supposedly dominates the world with media. I don’t know much about the vast majority of other countries, including England. All I know is that people from Liverpool are apparently bollocks…whatever that means.

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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
On a phone, or by yelling.

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Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
U.S.A-holes

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Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“From the United States”

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donuts@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Learn about the states and call them by their state name like we do in the US: (washingtonians, oregonians, californians, and so on.)

Internationally people love making fun of Americans for knowing little about geography, but it's always a bit surprising to find out how little people in other countries know about US geography considering many of our states are bigger (size-wise) than many entire countries.

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Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The word I use most often aside from American is Seppo, which is derogatory rhyming slang (sep + -o, from septic tank → Yank → Yankee)

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EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yank

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workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
United Statesman

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dewritoninja@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gringos

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