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White USAian.

How in the name of sweet things are you an American who uses such a dumbass term as USAian?

why the hell do you care, ya idjit

No American uses the term "USA-ian" unless they're trying to be sensitive or sarcastic.

ding ding ding.

Tongue. In. Cheek.

It was not used in seriousness. But I do hate that we tend to use "American" to mean "people from the US" when people in Canada and Mexico, etc. are American too.

this argument again woooooo

They're from the continent of North America, but they are Canadian and Mexican. American has long, long been the shorthand for someone from the United States of America. Much like if Canada wanted to be all wordy and call itself the United Providences of Canada, the citizens would still be Canadians.

Yeah but why do you give a shit though

if someone wants to say USians, why is that such an emotionally disturbing thing

Ah, yes. The good ol' "Why do you care?!" method for shutting down things you don't like. To answer, it's not "emotionally disturbing" or whatever you like to tell yourself people's motivations are. It's just a viscerally dumbass "word."

well, I think what confuses me is the viscerality of the reaction. Like, from previous debates here, people get really keyed in about it. And it's just never made sense to me, because like... whatever, it's just a word.

like i am genuinely asking here, why do you give a shit

Because it's a stupid word, and stupidity offends me.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-12-16 00:33 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2015-12-16 01:12 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2015-12-16 01:15 (UTC) - Expand

The term USians could be dismissive of people from Mexico because the name of Mexico is technically The United Mexican States or The United States of Mexico, depending on how you want to translate for grammar's sake/clarity of reading.

Mexico is called Mexico and the people of it Mexicans because we're too lazy to use the full name of the country when describing the people. How is this different from people using "Americans" for people from the United States of America?

Hello, I am Canadian and I would never ever ever ever ever in a billion years refer to myself as "American", nor would any other Canadian I have ever met, so please stop with this nonsense.

Okay then, speaker-for-all-Canadians.

Do you seriously think any Canadian would willingly identify themself as an America.

Do you seriously think that.

Did you miss the part where I said I was speaking tongue-in-cheek?

I'll dial down the sarcasm though as this thread is taking everything waaay too literally.

And apologies if I offended you, or anyone. Such was not my intent.

LMAOOOOO 8/10

WOULD LOL AGAIN

There are many people who do not agree with you

mostly from Latin and South America, where - afaik - it gets tied into a narrative about the colonial domineering that the US has carried out in those places

Canada is not the only other country in the Americas besides the USA

I never said anything about South America in my original comment. What I said was that CANADIANS do not think of ourselves as Americans. And we don't.

Latin and South Americans are free to call themselves whatever they like, I take no issue with that. It's not my place to take issue with that.

But no Canadian would ever identify as American. We just don't do it.

I apologize if I misinterpreted you.

(Anonymous) - 2015-12-16 00:22 (UTC) - Expand

but like, it was really easy to read your comment as rejecting the whole idea of 'USian' on the grounds that Canadians don't like it

maybe because that's what your comment was saying

and that seemed dumb

idk man

(Anonymous) - 2015-12-16 00:23 (UTC) - Expand

But it doesn't make sense. America is the actual name of the USA. United States of America, so, America plus some political gibberish. People from Latin countries are South American, or North American, or Latin American, but not American. The continents aren't just called "America" after all, so if you really want to identify with your continent rather than country, North or South kind of makes a huge difference.

What's wrong with it?