Stop calling USAians "Americans" - it only solidifies their belief that they own 2 continents
Language can be powerful in shaping ideas and the US has convinced the entire world that they are the "Americans" and everybody else on the 2 continents aren't.
"USAians" is dumb. Looks like you typoed "US Asians" and sounds like your trying to remember every vowel
I would say "stop making up terms," but they're never going to catch on.
Mexicans and Canadians do not want to be called Americans even though they are on the North American continent. And USA stands for United States of America, so American is the correct and logical term.
No one in South America identifies as an American, either.
We use 'americano' to refer to the whole continent where I am from
I'm from Brazil and I hate that the US appropriated the american word for themselves. Anyone from Europe can call themselves european, anyone from Asia is asian, Africa african, but from our continent? Only one country
Where did you study?
People who grew up in mexico and other Latin-American countries learn that America is the continent and the people are Americans.
When Spaniards "America" was the region's South to the US colonies. For Portuguese, it was Brazil.
No one wants to be called American because the yanks appropriated the term and give it a bad name. Do you think Iranians want to be called Aryans? Technically, they are the original, and true Aryans. Same for the swastika. You think Hindus and Buddhists enjoy using them outside of Asia or in Europe?
The term American has to be reclaimed to mean anybody from North or South America, but until that is done, we should stop calling yanks "Americans".
I use “US-Americans” consistently, for a start I wouldn’t want to insult the Canadians. I also use “yanks” or the German “Ami” - but the latter sounds too much like the French word for “friend” so now unusable.
Yank does have a nice ring to it. Yanking away people's rights abroad, yanking away their democracies, ... yank.
Yanks because they can't stop stroking their... egos :)
#1 ego
Do you use that just in written form, or spoken as well? I don’t feel “US-Americans” rolling off the tongue.
I agree and try to avoid 'Americans' as much as possible, but USians is awful and will never catch on.
I tend to say US folks or yanks when it flows well. It's not perfect, but it mostly works.
I'll never use USians, and most people will judge you poorly for trying to legitimize it.
They can judge me, I don't care. Yank, seppo, USAian, use whatever you like.
I try where suitable to use the term ‘US citizens’ but USians sounds stupid.
Bottom line is, it’s locked in, we know what’s meant by ‘Americans’ and it does make both verbal and practical sense.
I like USAnals myself.
This is like latinX all over again. No body asked for this.
I strongly disagree. In all common use, American refers the 50 states and 14 terriroties of the United States of America.
Language can be powerful, but this is simply not how this word is used, and I would kindly suggest that you not give the regime any ideas. Lol.
We sell software by region, America is one region which includes USA, Canada, Mexico.
But America is the country and "[The] Americas" has always been the region from what I've seen
United States of America is the country. There are other countries in the Americas. But yeah people drop the US part often.
If look at how the US is acting, they are definitely acting like "Uh... we're calls Americans, so North and South America is ours, it's only logical". They fucked up most South America (after the Europeans did of course) and continue to act like it belong to them. They just kidnapped the leader of a South American nation as if it were the 53rd state, said "we'll rule and you better give us primetime access to that oil! it's ours already".
It's an idea they can steal like the land, it has been the modus operandi for more than 50 years.
on behalf of great britain you are welcome to use shermans or septics. but the derivative seppo was invented by the aussies so you'll have to ask them for the permit. they may throw in leftpondian for free, i don't think they use it much any more
edit: i was operating outside my jurisdiction, septics is australian too according to https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/brdxe6y
Speaking on behalf of Australia I grant permission for everyone to use "seppo"
I'll gladly use it and alternate. Good word.
Never heard of sherman or septic. Where do those terms come from? Septic is from septic tank?
Rhyming slang. Septic Tank = Yank
Also it's full of shit.
yes, both as in tank (=yank)
It's not that bad: the US of A have been fucking up much of the entire world since 1945, yet Americans haven't taken to calling themselves Worldians have they?
USAians are trying to assert their force over the EU and daiming to break it up. If they could, it would be called Eastern America or something.
I do it in French and use États-unien(ne,s) but it's far more common and acceptable. In fact, there's lots of papers precisely on that subject and États-unien (or Étatsunien) is a valid term.
But in English it feels a bit pushy and pedantic to repeatedly use United Statesian or anything like that. So, I guess I should do that and get used to it myself.
Whatever
You anglophones are rather fucked with the lack of common slurs for the burgerriechians. In polish I've been using usańczycy (usanian equivalent) for quite some time, we also have hamerykanie - good, old one that underlines their hubris and vanity, but as of late I just use hitlerites. Considering The Great Satan - great meaning altough imo sounds too cool
Why come up with a stupid word when there's already Yank?
To piss people like you off.
Aww you're so edgy. Good luck with your endeavours!
Thanks you too 😘
I remember learning about manifest destiny when I was in school. Kinda made me distrusting of people south of the border. I would agree with the sentiment of "language matters" and that we need to really drive home our sovereignty into the US psyche.
I said this about a month ago before the whole thing happening now and everybody in that thread wanted me dead. lol
Probably USAians all butt-hurt.
Agree, but we need a better word than that.. It's hard not to include 'americans' so people know what we are talking about. We likely need a prefix slur that we designate to the (mostly) scum people in the bottom of North America that supports the US Capitalist Oligarchy/globalist hegemony. 'Crapmericans' ? hm, there must be better suggestions..
Yallquaeda is popular in some circles
You're overlooking hyphenated American immigrant groups from the entire planet who make up the majority of the population (so, almost everybody), Native Americans (nearly everyone else), and the entire fact there are North and South American descriptors (all the rest of the people in the Americas) because those are the names of the continents we live on (all the places).
If you'd like to be pedantic, then you'd have to use USMians or U.S. Mexicans to refer to Mexicans as they are also a collection of united States.
Mexico (and many other countries) has an official name and a unique coloquial one.
The US only has an official name and they appropriated the coloquial one which already meant the whole continent.
It wasn't an accident in language. It was deliberate.
I tend to call the USA the United States, but either you can accept the common demonym and adjective of "American" which is an entirely separate thing than the name of the country or you can not. Same for Mexico.
You can choose how you want to address people of the USA, but it's up to them to choose how they react to it. "Yankee" is another alternative that's a lot easier to say, even if they don't tend to like it.
I always say fuck the US americans
USAians!