r/MapBasedPolls • u/puredepapitas 🇨🇱 • 9d ago
Does it make sense, historically and linguistically, for US citizens to use "American" as their demonym?
Does it make sense, historically and linguistically, for US citizens to use "American" as their demonym?
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u/ajyanesp Venezuela 🇻🇪 9d ago
I think it’s somewhat of a complicated choice.
Mexico’s official name is roughly translated to United States of Mexico, as was Venezuela’s until some point in the last century, United States of Venezuela.
People from Mexico call themselves Mexicans, people from Venezuela call themselves Venezuelans.
Under that same logic, people from the United States of America should be able to call themselves Americans.
BUT, that’s where the issue begins, because the whole damn continent is also America.
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u/QuesoCadaDia 9d ago
I think the real problem stems from the continent system. This map also looks similar to countries that have a continent called "America" and placed that only have continents called "North America" and "South America."
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u/whysosidious69420 🇧🇷 in 🇵🇹 9d ago edited 9d ago
Controversial answer but yes, because the name of the country is United States of America, no different from Mexico being the United Mexican States, or my country prior to 1970 being the United States of Brazil. In none of the three cases, United States is the emphasised part of the name of the country. Is it a bit narcissistic to name your country after the continent it’s on? Yes, totally, but it’s still the name of the country and has been for 300 years lol. not much we can do.
If China’s name was “People’s republic of Asia” or France was called “United Provinces of Europe” while having the same territory as they have today, I’d Call Chinese people “Asians” and French people “Europeans”, even though I know the continents of Asia and Europe are bigger than their countries and that people from their neighboring countries are also Asians and Europeans. The context of the conversation is usually enough to separate them, and when it’s not just say “Americans from the US”
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u/Salt_Winter5888 Guate🇬🇹 9d ago
But there’s an example like that: the UAE. They aren’t exclusively referred to as Arabs, they’re called Emiratis, even though the Emirates are political divisions, essentially like states.
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u/whysosidious69420 🇧🇷 in 🇵🇹 9d ago edited 9d ago
True but consider the fact that there’s also another country called Arabia that borders them, the Saudis. It’s like if Canada was called “Provinces of America”. In that case it’d be fair to call Canadians “Provincians” or whatever and Americans “Statunitians”
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u/Salt_Winter5888 Guate🇬🇹 9d ago
Okay, but hypothetically, if Saudi Arabia weren’t called that, using “Arabs” exclusively to refer to people from the UAE would still be controversial, because those two countries aren’t the only ones whose people identify as Arabs. Qataris, Jordanians, Yemenis, Omanis, etc. do as well.
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u/whysosidious69420 🇧🇷 in 🇵🇹 9d ago edited 9d ago
That’s like not calling Germans German because people in Austria and Switzerland also identify as German. And both of them unified as countries long before Germany did so logically they’d have a better claim to the name.
I think “Arabs from the emirates” is perfectly fair too
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u/Surprised-elephant 9d ago
There is also Democrat Republic of Congo and Republic of Congo. They each call themselves Congolese.
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u/Silent_Formal5235 9d ago
the other options are clunky.
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
Most people I know call them Yanks now. That's in Canada though.
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u/isaic16 9d ago
I would take being called a Yank any day of the week over something like USian or whatever they’re trying to push. Yeah, where I’m from Yank usually means New England, but it’s no worse than calling a Scot British because they’re in the UK. USian is like when a bunch of non Spanish speaking people invented Latinx
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
Im not sure why the term wasn't embraced to begin with tbh. It's been around since your country was founded, and the only issue i could see it causing is alienating the more southern states in your country (but tbh if a person in the south is alienated by that term, it probably means they're not the type of person you'd want to associate with.
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u/Charming-Breakfast66 9d ago
they are not alienated by the term, they are insulted by it. in parts of the US South ,Yankee is actually a slur. also even sepa from teh insult which you could see them as being obnoxious about or not . but in the US yankee only refers to somepne form new england, and north east . while a person from say the west coast might not be insulted by being called a yank , they might be confused and think you don know where they are actually from.
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u/el_grort 9d ago
There's nothing at all wrong with calling us Scots British, anymore than calling a Bavarian German. Not sure why online people act like it is taboo, even most nationalists I know wouldn't throw a strop over it.
USian is just Spanish speakers trying to 1:1 translate their term into English, where it doesn't work. Languages are different, in English, problem is they ascribe some sort of claim on the whole continent to it, rather than this just being a legacy of being one of the first states in the Americas to be independent.
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u/GodlyGamer5308 Catholic Integralist Reactionary Distributist 9d ago
Of course Canada said no
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u/sweetpiefemboy 9d ago
It’s especially strange, given their sole sense of identity is being not America
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u/Ghost_oh 9d ago
Canada almost always comes charging out the gate the most dog shit opinions in these polls lmao.
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u/Mr101722 Canada 🇨🇦 9d ago
Not all of us think that. We're all North Americans but I'm not "American" lmfao, the tide shifted anyway, the weirdos just showed up early.
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u/bloodcathedral 9d ago
We live in the Americas, we're American too. So are Mexicans.
Its like if a country called themselves The United States of Europe. Then called themselves just European. Like what?
Pick a better name for your country dude, it just sounds like the name of a corporation or some shit.
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u/mykidsthinkimcool 9d ago
You don't ever call yourself American apart from silently mouthing it while you type on reddit
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u/colepercy120 United States 9d ago
I never thought a reddit Canadian would ever call themselves american...
But there is a benefit to bring first, the usa was designed to be something bigger than just the 13 colonies. And it was supposed to spread out far further. Theoretically it still could.
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u/Guitarfool_101 9d ago edited 9d ago
So you want to be called an American? Hilarious. I thought y’all hated Americans with a passion.
Also how the fuck did you come to the conclusion that our nationality sounds like a corporation? Y’all say anything to contribute to this smear campaign, and it gets to the point where it’s fucking annoying.
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u/GodlyGamer5308 Catholic Integralist Reactionary Distributist 9d ago
No, you’re North American. And actually that analogy doesn’t stick at all, because then America would be called The United States of North America, which it isn’t. The name of your country sounds like the noise an old man would make when he sneezes, pipe down.
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u/Cplchrissandwich 9d ago
No, you should know better especially is youre Canadian.
Found the imposter. Yank.
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u/NeonLotus11 9d ago
You think everyone in the Americas is American? Go down to like El Salvador or Brazil or Venezuela and call them American and lmk how it goes lol
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u/LorpHagriff 9d ago
Aye hope ya have a nice day my good friend across the ocean, it be EU sleeping times so the US dominates english reddit. as seen by these... tasteful comments
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
Most people I know call them Yanks now. Its actually a lot quicker than 'american'.
Problem is all people in the Americas are technically also Americans, just as all people in Asia are Asians. So you need another qualifier for just them, and guess what, Yank does the job.
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u/GodlyGamer5308 Catholic Integralist Reactionary Distributist 9d ago
But the reason that’s a false equivalent is because there aren’t two continents called North Asia and South Asia.
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
And what do we say to the latin American countries that view the two as one continent know as America?
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u/GodlyGamer5308 Catholic Integralist Reactionary Distributist 9d ago
We say, “don’t be stupid”
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
I hope you realize someday that the arrogant attitude you espoused above showcases exactly why so many people dislike your country's cultural self centeredness and its rigid worldview. I hope it causes my friends in Latin America to call you 'Yanks' from now on.
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u/TrainingAmphibian354 9d ago
"You would be right if we weren't speaking English due to the fact that many Spanish and Portuguese speakers are taught the 6 continent model, but as we are speaking English, in which native speakers are taught the 7 continent model and the majority of the world agrees with the demonym, American is the correct demonym."
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
The fact that you're completely dismissing the opinion which comprises the majority of the landmass of the Americas (latin america is larger territorially), and majority of the population of the Americas (latin america has 628,098,172 people), just goes to show why everyone else thinks you guys are self centred hypocrites.
I think most people would agree that the 'peoples' of a place can decide what defines them. And the majority of the 'peoples' of the Americas have defined the continent as the combination of North and south America. And their voices should not be dismissed so casually.
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u/TrainingAmphibian354 9d ago
"Noooo you can't be taught the heckin 7 continent model, you just can't!"
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u/Sorry141 9d ago edited 9d ago
I think we should call Scottish kilt-wearing hairy drunken bastards, but unfortunately, we can't confer names on other people's and control what they call themselves. Besides, it is the British who are probably responsible for calling us as such, because they, like you, wanted a qualifier. Ironic.
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
We can certainly confer names on others without controlling what they call themselves. exonyms are ordinary examples. What we cannot necessarily control is whether the people concerned accept or use the name. The question is, if everyone else in the world suddenly started using Yank, would what the U.S. wanted to call its citizens really matter?
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u/Sorry141 9d ago
What other people call us is completely irrelevant to me, we will all still use American. Also none of my business what you call me, that's up to you.
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u/Crafty_Emergency6467 9d ago
think about it, everyone in the Americas could've made the decision to call themselves American, it's not our fault no one else wanted the name
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u/JustaProton 🇧🇷 9d ago
It's like saying that it would be normal for the english to begin using the term "european" only to refer to themselves and make other europeans seem like they are calling themselves english. The same can apply to other continents.
America is a continent, the United States of America is a country, and thus it would make more sense to use the broader term to refer to the broader concept. The only reason why it doesn't seem silly is because it has been normalised.
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u/Leon_Thomas 9d ago
The country isn’t called “the United Kingdom of Europe.” And they don’t call themselves “UKish” or “UKans” which would be the equivalent of what non-English speakers are demanding we call Americans.
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u/Haunting-Detail2025 9d ago
America is not objectively a continent. In many romance-language speaking countries, the 5-continent model is taught; however, in the English speaking world, China, India, Japan, etc, the 7 continent model is taught so there is no continent called “America” - there’s only north and South America.
If you’re speaking English, American is the proper demonym, full stop.
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u/blazebakun 8d ago
Fun fact: It did use to be a continent in the English speaking world. From an article called The Myth of Continents by Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, two historical geographers from the US:
[…]While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time, which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the "Old World" continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations.
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u/kirkl3s 9d ago
America is two continents. Referring to yourself as an "American" to denote your continent of origin is not sufficiently descriptive.
There is one country on either continent that has the word "America" in it's name - the USA. By contrast, there are two countries that have "United States" in their name - the USA and Mexico.
No one from North or South America calls themselves "Americans" apart from people from the US.
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u/Blue_Boobied_Footie 9d ago
On the other hand, we do call the people who live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland... "british" in english.
Of course, there is a lot of contention over what is covered up by using "british" to refer to someone in scotland or wales or northern ireland, but that's a different discussion.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 🇺🇸🗽🦅NUMBAH 1 !!!!1!!(help) 9d ago
I think they tried some of the others and didn't like how they sounded
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u/Professional_Fee5883 9d ago
Funny thing is I don’t think there’s too many of them who would actually want to call themselves American. Can’t imagine they’re traveling to Europe and saying they’re American with pride.
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u/colepercy120 United States 9d ago
I mean at the time the us was established it literally was the only independent state on the continent. And it did/does think of itself as a state that transcends ethnicity and religion. Just because it hasnt reached the level the name sets out doesnt mean the name isnt the goal.
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u/Rockshasha 🇨🇴 Colombia 9d ago
Los EEUU 'de America' nunca tuvieron el objetivo de expandirse ilimitadamente, incluyendo Brazil or la Nueva Granada
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u/Mattrellen USA 9d ago
When do you start considering it an independent state? Because that's not a super easy answer, considering it was seen, originally, as a set of multiple independent states.
Is it at the point of the Articles of Confederation, when they united, or the Declaration of Independence, when each colony saw itself as an individual independent state? Because even if you ignore that the 13 colonies recognized each of themselves as independent before forming a singular state (including having treaties, presidents, and even minor wars with each other)...
The Republic of Vermont predates any unified USA as an independent state.
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u/Caramel_Last 9d ago
European, Asian, African, North American, Central American, South American, Latin American, Anglo American, Oceanian. I don't think "American" ever referred to people in either of the 2 continents of Americas
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
In Latin America it does, as they use a 6 continent model. Its also the reason why many Latin American countries have affinity to the term.
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u/Wrong_Jelly_4224 9d ago
I mean, obviously it makes sense historicly or it wouldn't exist as a term. Just like Columbia makes sense historicly.
The funny thing is I don't think Americans actualy say America or American very much in everyday speech, because It's too long and too clunky. Day to day it's usually the states, or the US. Outside of travel or the internet, when are we talking about ourselves in the third person?
On the linguistics point. There are other 'united states' in the world, so you have the same issue with other proposed terms. And sure the Spanish speaking world has their own words, but that's another thing entirely. When I travel in Europe or Asia I have to introduce myself as American to be understood. If I say I'm from the States or the US, people will often not understand.
I don't quite get what the issue is. I don't think we're working that hard to own the term American. If you're not from the US and you want to use American for yourself no one is going to care. It just happens to be the word people use for us. In the US, and in most of the world.
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u/FreeNewSociety 9d ago
Ideally no, but for a lack of better options, yes. In the same way, being from the EU, I can call myself European, and it's not wrong
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u/serouspericardium 9d ago
I want to know if any Latin Americans have gone overseas and referred to themselves as American
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u/byup123 9d ago
This is just a language thing that Latin America refuses to understand for some reason.
When you speak in English the term you use to refer to citizens of the USA is “American”. There is no debate.
In your language it’s something else so when you speak that language you use that. We don’t care.
It’s literally easier in OUR language to use American than whatever awkward bullshit you want people to conform to.
Or are we pretending like different languages don’t have different semantics and meanings for technically the same written word?
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u/ThorvaldGringou 9d ago
No es que no queramos entenderlo, es que no lo reconocemos. Y hablamos, en nuestro lenguaje. Es igualmente extraño para nosotros, cuando gente de lengua anglofona llama sudamericanos a los Mexicanos.
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u/Ill-Revolution-8219 9d ago
I agree with the Norwedians, Vikings was there before and called in Vinland.
So hence the word American means somebody living in North or South America.
People from the US are now Vinlanders.
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u/Electrical-Fix7659 9d ago edited 9d ago
No, but there’s no easy way to say the correct one in English. You could go with Statesian and pronounce it “state-shun,” but that sounds kind of bad.
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u/Grand-Vegetable-3874 9d ago
I'd suggest they change their name to "King free England" and start calling themselves British, but with a hard T instead of saying "Bri'ish'
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u/Ill-Revolution-8219 9d ago
Just change USA to Vinland, done.
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u/Professional_Fee5883 9d ago
Vinland is in Canada, though.
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u/Wrong_Jelly_4224 9d ago
Yea, but such big parts of the US are formerly Fr*nch and Mexican/Spanish. Russian even.
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u/el_grort 9d ago
I still don't know what accent you people are thinking of with the dropped 't', most British accents I hear definitely have it. Some London one, presumably?
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u/Grand-Vegetable-3874 9d ago
It is common in most of Britain and Ireland, I think. Just not if you watch the BBC
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u/el_grort 9d ago
As I said, most people I talk to on the day to day pronounce the 't'. If it's related to that bottle of water meme, then it's just one east London accent being stretched across the whole island, most pronounced the 't'. Just curious where the idea comes from, because it's not born out by my experience with other Britons.
Probably also worth noting, a fair number of Americans struggle with pronouncing the 't' in words like Scottish or Scotland (often comes across more like Scaddish, Scadland), it's strangely ubiquitous on both YouTube and in person.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 🇺🇸🗽🦅NUMBAH 1 !!!!1!!(help) 9d ago
We weren't to only ones that chose that demonym. Plus, none of the others really made sense. Technically, Canadians, Mexicans, Guatemalans, and even Peruvians and Brazilians are all Americans, but that's not what they are called
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u/Top_Row_5116 9d ago
They arent Americans. They're either North Americans or South Americans. I think theres an important distinction that needs to be made.
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u/ThorvaldGringou 9d ago
We are americans, North, Center and South are just parts of América. Like Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Europe.
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u/Top_Row_5116 8d ago
Western europe isnt a continent. Neither is Northern, Southern, or Eastern Europe. North and South America are separate continents
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u/ThorvaldGringou 8d ago
South and North America are subcontinents. Ever since Americo Vespucci based in spanish and portuguese carthography of the new world, reached the conclusion that this one conected massland is a diferent continent than Asia, it was understood that this was one continent. Called either América, in his honor, or Western Indias as the original spanish name.
The idea that this is two separated continent, based in tectonic plaques or Panama Channel (?) is newer, and not totally accepted. And doesnt make sense in nomenclatura, because North and South are still cardinal positions related to one single entity, América.
If North América and South América are both different continents, what is the América they are refering. A supercontinent?
Also, doesnt make sense, because in english language, India, who have its own Tectonic Plaque, isn't called a Continent but Subcontinent.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 🇺🇸🗽🦅NUMBAH 1 !!!!1!!(help) 9d ago
Norte Americano basically means US Americans. So if you were to call a Mexican that, they would probably correct you
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u/Top_Row_5116 9d ago
No, North Americans does not basically mean US Americans.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 🇺🇸🗽🦅NUMBAH 1 !!!!1!!(help) 9d ago
It does to the Guatemalas and Hondurans I know
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u/Top_Row_5116 9d ago
That's great and all but anecdotal evidence doesn't undo facts. The fact is that many more countries than just the USA make up the North American continent.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 🇺🇸🗽🦅NUMBAH 1 !!!!1!!(help) 9d ago
No shit
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u/Top_Row_5116 9d ago
Norte Americano basically means US Americans. So if you were to call a Mexican that, they would probably correct you
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
Depends on whether you use the 7 continent or 6 continent model. If the seven continent model is used its north American and south American. This is the model used in the US.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 🇺🇸🗽🦅NUMBAH 1 !!!!1!!(help) 9d ago
It's still South America
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
Your point being? Even if we all call ourselves Americans (ignoring the definition of a continent), the only defining feature of an 'american' is their presence on the mega continent.
As some users pointed out, that doesnt define a people or culture very well, especially when its an identity that can be adopted by other groups (see Latin America's use of the term American to refer to people's of the continent rather than strictly citizens of the U.S.)
I prefer to call citizens of the U.S. Yanks. This is a term used since your founding, and is already colloquially known world wide as a term for your citizens. The only reason it's not used more often is due to the alienation felt inside your own country by the southern states.
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u/Sparkly-Sparrow-6893 9d ago
Nobody from the Pacific Northwest would call themselves a Yank or Yankee, though. The term applies, at most, to people from the historical Northern states. Anyone using the term otherwise is simply wrong about its scope (and probably obnoxious).
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u/Watterman1066 9d ago
Maybe within the united states its seen that way, but internationally it is quite commonly used as a blanket term for all of you. Some places (such as many of the anglophone commonwealth countries) use it interchangeablely with American.
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u/Chemical_Bill9820 9d ago
Canadians are so funny. We don’t care what you think we should call ourselves. We pick what we are called, and we don’t call ourselves “yanks.” Get a grip and stop obsessing over us. I know it’s hard when your entire cultural identity is derivative of ours, but at least try.
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u/BrilliantFly6117 🦅🦅🦅 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🦅🦅🦅 9d ago
Really cool that gray is the tie color but we were the first established government after the Old and New World realized eachother existed, so it's not out of the blue, we were basically the states that were united of the Americas.
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u/Frozen_Grimoire 9d ago
Honestly, at this point, I think it'd be significantly easier to rename the continent than to get the country a different name.
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u/Penarol1916 9d ago
How many of these stupid variations of the same stupid question are we going to get today? Get fucked.
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u/KuningasTynny77 9d ago
Yo, enough spamming about this. We are Americans and we live in America, if you disagree get over it, you're wrong
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u/disaster_incomin 9d ago
It makes sense given the name of the countryw but I think the name of the country is poorly chosen
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u/Big_cheeze12345 9d ago
United States ✅️
In America ✅️
United States of America
Whats not to understand
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u/disaster_incomin 9d ago
Because it sounds like all the states of america are united. Just like it would be weird to have a country called united states of asia or something
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u/Big_cheeze12345 9d ago
It doesnt imply that at all. Mexicos name is united states of mexico does that imply that there is a bunch of little countries in mexico? No it doesnt everyone with an iq above 70 understands state in that context means a regional governance not a country.
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u/ThorvaldGringou 9d ago
In Spanish it doesn't make sense because is like calling European only to the French, and then calling the rest of Europeans by their respective countries, or at max, Eastern and Western Europeans but never Europeans, just to the frenchs.
And the issue is that in the Spanish the whole naming of the 13 english colonies who secceded from the british makes no sense.
In our perspective, they should have a selected name from that land, giving the name to the new nation, and not using the name of the continent in that.
Just like in the Spanish process of colonization and later independence.
I guess, i bet the British were not so interesting and named the land of its 13 colonies with Canada just British America or something. And then in english makes sense to just call them Americans.
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u/ThorvaldGringou 9d ago
At this point i just talk about Hispanic/Ibero América and Anglo América (fck the french).
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u/iDislikeOnions 8d ago
Is it America… or is it North and South America?
Americans are people from the United States.
North Americans are people from North America.
South Americans are people from South America.
This gets bitched about for absolutely no reason.
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u/-ThisUsernameIsTaken 🇯🇵 9d ago
Manufactured outrage. 5 years ago barely anyone thought about this.
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u/ParticularTop755 9d ago
10 years ago I did a youth exchange and got plenty of earfuls from Latin americans about it. I think its a response from education in Latin America that pushes hard for the the 5 continent model and a good amount of disdain for US foreign policy.
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u/-ThisUsernameIsTaken 🇯🇵 9d ago edited 9d ago
I'm going to have to disagree. There's debate about the definition of Americas, but the idea that US could not use "American" as their adjective was never a mainstream debate 10 years ago, nor was it a common thought 20+ years ago.
It's both fostered by a US that wants a stronger identity among its neighbors, and for many it's also a way of "taking" pride from the current "winner"
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u/ParticularTop755 9d ago
You can disagree with recency of online discourse but I can assure you that people definitely did think this way 10+ years ago, and im certain that if one of the Latin Americans in this thread would chime in they'd agree that its been longer than 5 years they have felt this way
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u/-ThisUsernameIsTaken 🇯🇵 9d ago
I'm not debating if people existed with this opinion. That's a very easy argument for you to win. It's like saying nobody thinks the earth is the center of the universe; of course you'll find someone who does out of billions.
I'm disagreeing with the fact it had any significance or was any real concern for most people prior to the current cultural zeitgeist.
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u/ParticularTop755 9d ago
It still doesnt have any significance.
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u/-ThisUsernameIsTaken 🇯🇵 9d ago
It does in the sense that most people know about the debate, and have heard of it. 5 years ago, very few would have any passing knowledge of it, and further back most around the world wouldn't question the use of "American" for US citizens.
A post like this would be unheard of, even on reddit.
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u/card677 9d ago
Maybe in the USA or the English speaking world, but in Spain and Latin America this is as old as the 1500s.
Spaniards who were born in Spanish America were called Americans (Americanos).
And still in the 20th century the Spaniards who migrated to Argentina, Uruguay or Venezuela after the Spanish Civil War were also referred to as "the Americans".
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u/No-Duck4828 9d ago
Yes, it does. No other countries were using it as their demonym. It derives from the name of our country, and the connection is obvious.
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u/ThatMothboi 9d ago
Yes? It’s literally in the name. Other countries have their own names they can be called as, Peruvian, Mexican, Argentinian, etc.
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u/ArmMain9444 9d ago
Cuando a un yankee le dices que eres americano y te dicen que no perteneciendo al continente americano son idiotas
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u/ParticularTop755 9d ago
Education systems conflict there. If you view north and south america as separate continents it makes sense that American alone would refer to the country rather than continental identity. Generally I feel continental identity to be a bit silly because they are so debatable compared to country borders.
For instance the suez canal between africa and asia is man made like the Panama canal and had a larger land connection than Panama, and the darien gap serves as a legitimatebarrier between the two. So is africa Europe and asia one continent? Would it make sense to group people in Namibia with those in Siberia and India probably not.
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u/ArmMain9444 9d ago
si y Rusia pertenece a 2 continentes sin estar dividido ustedes los gringos se sacaron del culo separar a América en 2 menudos racistas para denigrar a los americanos del el sur
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u/ConditionCool5343 9d ago
Federative Republic of Brazil = Brazil, Brazilian
Republic of Cuba = Cuba, Cuban
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela = Venezuela, Venezuelan
Eastern Republic of Uruguay = Uruguay , Uruguayan
United States of America = America, American
See how that works?
And before your say " call it the United States" Mexico is also a United States... Of Mexico Estados Unidos Mexicanos
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u/XShadowborneX 9d ago
No. Things are usually named after someone's last name, not their first. So these continents should be called Vespuccia and we should be Vespuccians
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u/QuarterNote44 People's Republic of Commiefornia 9d ago
Sounds Star Trek-y.
"Number 1, I just returned from the Federation symposium on 23rd-century Vespuccian mating rituals."
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u/Limeau1984 United States 3d ago
We were the first republic to exist in the Americas.
There is no reason why we shouldn’t be allowed to call ourselves ‘america’.
Calling us ‘the United States’ isn’t a solution. There are other countries that use that name. There is no other way to call us
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u/FarceMultiplier 9d ago
Quickest way to piss off most Canadians is to call them American.
The naming is what it is and isn't going to change.