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⌈ Secret Post #2673 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I just wish people from the US didn't get so angry about it. The very suggestion seems to get some people really worked up, but it seems to me that even if you don't like the suggestion it's pretty harmless and understandable.

(I am from the US for reference)

[(Anonymous)]

Crazy how some people get upset by different things than some other people. Funny old world we live in.

[diet_poison]

I'm from the US too. I think it would be so much more practical for us to have our own country moniker, but some people get so possessive about the term "America" and since that also refers to continents, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see many people from the US getting upset about people from other countries calling themselves American, though, unless those US people were already overly patriotic weirdos. It's when people start trying to use USian that people get pissed, and rightly so; no one wants someone to just slap a label on them.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS! That's my exact problem with the "USian" issue. I have no problem with someone from outside the US wanting to call themselves American. It's confusing, but whatever, call yourself whatever you want.

My issue is someone telling me what I should call myself. To be truthful, I'm actually more likely to refer to myself as Southern Californian. It's much more specific, and there is a huge difference between someone who lives in, say, Louisiana and someone who lives in SoCal - believe me, my father's side of the family lives in Louisiana, and when I went there to visit I was even more lost than I was when I went to Mexico a few years later.

I am not "USian" and never will be, because I refuse to call myself that and frankly, anyone who uses that word immediately goes down in my estimation. Seriously, how many times does someone have to say "don't call me that" before the point is understood?

If someone from, say, Ireland says to not call them Irish, I'm not going to say, "But that's what you are!" I'm going to ask them what I should call them instead, then I'm going to use that even if it's something silly like "USian", because that's what they want to be called.

So, you want to be called American? Fine, I'll call you American. Bet don't call me "USian".

[(Anonymous)]

So you call people from the island nation west of China and Korea "Nipponese" I assume?

[(Anonymous)]

Umm... you mean the United Kingdom? Iceland? Help me out, I'm drawing a blank.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

Japan, anon. But they're arguing semantics at this point because they're butthurt. :/

AYRT

[(Anonymous)]

If someone from Japan asked me to call them Nipponese or Nipponjin rather than Japanese, then yes, I totally would.