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?
US-Americans
How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?
Submitted 1 year ago by valveman@lemmy.eco.br to [deleted]
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Neon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I like this one, it’s easy to say and clear.
Kantapper_Kantapper@feddit.de 1 year ago
In Germany we call them “US-Amerikaner”.
wombatula@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Judging from playing video games in EU lobbies, “Hamburger”?
VulKendov@reddthat.com 1 year ago
But what if I’m not from Hamburg
EsteemedRectangle@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Murican. Defenders of Freedom. Liberators of Liberty. Hot Dogs. Butch.
jmhdBV8l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gringo or gabacho.
valveman@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
AFAIK, the word “gringo” is used by latinos to refer to anyone from other countries, not specifically US citizens. But yeah, definitely gringo
alehc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In mexico is pretty much exclusive to people from the US, don’t know about the rest of the continent tho.
VulKendov@reddthat.com 1 year ago
From what I’ve seen “gringo” refers to white people
Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It varies from country to country. Can be either.
JonEFive@midwest.social 1 year ago
While technically correct, I’ve never heard a Brazilian refer to themselves as “American” when they intended to mean South American. Linguistically, when you say “American” you’re talking about a citizen of the United States, not just any person from the western hemisphere.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
Brazil considers the Americas to be a single continent, with south/north being subdivisions. A lot of people here don’t understand that usa’s actual name is America just like the continent, so they often get mad when the word American is used to refer to people from the USA instead of from anywhere in the americas.
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If anything we should just rename the continents to remove the confusion.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel like I’ve never even heard someone say it like that either. Maybe it’s just my bubble but I never hear people refer to themselves by their continent except maybe occasionally Europeans.
Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
First off, there is also a North America.
Second, those of us in North and South America refer to ourselves as such. Canadians are North Americans, not Americans.
Third, Americans are usually referred to as Yankees or Yanks outside of America, much like the English are referred to as Poms and the Canadians referred to as Canucks.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait English are poms?
kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Poms indeed.
arquebus_x@kbin.social 1 year ago
Stick with "American" because not only is it partially accurate geographically, it's completely accurate in terms of how self-centered we are as a nation as to think we're the only ones who count.
Raddnaar@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
US bashing is getting old, tired and trite.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Treasonous Colonial
karlach@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]JonEFive@midwest.social 1 year ago
I think you just summoned a demon
lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Unitedstatesian
rimorso@feddit.it 1 year ago
In Italian he/she would be called statunitense, statunitensi for they.
cmder@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In french you can say états-unien and you might translate it as States-nan
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In Italian “statunitensi”, i.e. United States people
valveman@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
So, basically every language has a specific word for US citizens, except english? LOL
neomis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean you can try and call them by their state but really we’re just American. And we’re selfish enough we claim it exclusively and let other countries in the americas go by their country name or add extra details to the America term
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, American is the most notable part of the United States of America’s country name. Calling them Unitedians would be silly, particularly with how prevalent ‘United’ is in full country names.
Kase@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Idk about everybody else, but you can call me Michael (or kase, obv) :)
weew@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
USAdian
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
yank
nomecks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This, especially if you’re trolling right wing Americans.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
美国人
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Though I live in North America…
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Which is part of Earth
Which is in the Sol system
So really, we are all Solarians
z00s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But we live on Earth
So we’re all Earthicans
tslnox@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Tau’ri!
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Usonano
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I generally use ‘USican’, pronounced yoo-ess-ican. Every seemseto understand me.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 year ago
Stinky Gringo
OriginalUsername@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“someone born in the US”
pno2nr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you call them “idiot” you have a 50/50 chance of being right.
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
ratio not high enough
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But then what do I call the people in my country? It’s around 50% as well!
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
♪Booooooorn in the US-A!♪
and you have to sing it in tune to use this term correctly.
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Simple, USAmerican
zazaserty@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
In spanish its estadounidense
TheHotze@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Technically you could shorten it the other way to Unionist. Which is likely to be confusing, but on the plus side might make some idiots mad.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
In Arabic there’s multiple possibilities depending on the speaker, but my favorite is “Amrikani”
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here in Morocco we call them “Mirikani”, so it’s not that far off.
calypsopub@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am learning Swahili and it’s Mmarekani which I bungle the spelling of constantly
thlcn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In Czech one could say Amíci! Latin anyone?
JAJLWolf@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I’ve heard “USAmerican” used
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Main protagonist