United Statesians are really full of themselves when they use American to describe themselves, like its two entire continents. Personally I think the idea of continents are stupid and have done more harm to the global perception of geography than the 1st and 3rd world concept, but United Statesians are not Americans. We should start calling these countries by these names instead just to annoy nationalists. From now on only refer to...

Panamanians=Americans

Turks=Europeans

Russians=Asians

Egyptians=Africans

Lets get people mad.

  • GrumpigPoopBalls [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I had a teacher in high school that took points off assignments if people used "America" to refer to the united states because there are other countries in the americas :yes-chad:

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Bit account but a lot of non Anglophone languages already do lol

    • grammerunderstander [any]
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      3 years ago

      Well I'm not suggesting we take away the word American to refer to a country, im just suggesting we use it to refer to Panama so we can get a struggle session in the future about who's a real American.

  • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Estadounidense, gringo, and yanqui/Yankee are the Spanish ones that I know of.

    This doesn't really answer the question, but I appreciate that the top answer here is great for a stackexchange site.

    https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/28425/why-are-the-people-of-the-united-states-called-americans-when-the-whole-contin

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    For real though I do try and say "US Americans" on this site as often as I can remember to.

  • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    I hang out with a lot of comrades from Argentina and Brazil, and we already regularly refer to people from the United States as USians

  • justjoshint [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don't like Americans but I think people should be able to choose their own demonyms

  • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I actually do that all the time. Source: I'm a settler in America but don't live in the US

  • Sklorp [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    America is 1 continent. It's contiguous. The continents are Afroeuroasia, America, Antarctica and Oceania. I might accept Greenland as a continent if you ask nicely but that's as far as I'll go.