• PeteZa@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    This. I’ve gotten some pushback on it, but I believe the US shouldn’t own the term “American”. I say that as a US American.

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      3 months ago

      They don’t “own” anything. In multiple languages another correct way to name them is the equivalent of Unitedstadian, this is true for French and Spanish.

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        3 months ago

        I hate this argument. The term America has been used to refer to the US for so long now that it’s colloquially the same.

        The term “USian” is just as bad as “American” if you really give a fuck about the names of countries because the USA is not the only “United States” they could be part of either. If you’re gonna try to find a word that is instantly recognizable as “citizen of the United States of America” why not just use the one that literally billions of people already use every day?

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            3 months ago

            How about we call them “Union Members” seeing as they’re part of “the Union” as decreed by their founding fathers? Instead of bulldozing over all of the other “United States” in America and the world by replacing the imperialist “American” with the… Somehow less imperialist “United States Ian”?

        • Match!!@pawb.social
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          3 months ago

          why not just use the one that literally billions of people already use every day

          Estadounidense?

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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            If you’re speaking Spanish, and that’s the colloquial term in your region, yes. That’s exactly how linguistics work.