• Spliffman1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Surprised the crusaders haven’t appeared yet saying “American” includes every country in the Americas… Canadians, Mexicans, Panamanians, Brazilians etc etc :-)

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      1 year ago

      Every Canadian I’ve ever met doesn’t like to be called American. Don’t know about the other countries, but I’d assume it’s the same.

      • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Wait, when David Bowie sang “I’m Afraid of Americans,” was he singing about us Canadians too?? This never even occurred to me as a possibility.

        • can@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          I think some just dislike that one country claims the demonym of two whole continents.

          • Spliffman1@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Well South Africa is not the only country in the south of Africa if we are gonna go around getting bent out of shape by such petty shit. The other countries in the Americas all have their own distinctive names and don’t want to be called americans, it’s a non issue

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      1 year ago

      If everyone on two continents is an American, then how are people from the one country literally called America supposed to differentiate themselves?

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        1 year ago

        Am I wrong in saying it’s not literally called America? I thought it was called United States

          • Feugnis@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Right, so it’s not literally America. United States of America is the country, while just the word America represents all the countries in the Americas

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              1 year ago

              There’s also the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Republic of Tanzania, the People’s Republic of China, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Latvia, the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Ecuador and a whole ton of other countries who are called by the last word in their official names because that is HOW ENGLISH WORKS.

              And if you really gave a damn about all the people in Latin America, you’d call them by the proper names of their countries.

              But if you insist I’m wrong, go over to lemmy.ca and post a thread telling them they’re American. See what they think.

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      I’m quite happy not placing myself in the same American bucket, not sure why anyone would say that.