[ SECRET POST #4912 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4912 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

Okay, yes. You are right. Most of those seem language differences to me? How many of them are deliberate choices to tell people of that country they aren't who they say they are and made the wrong choice about their own name the way USian is.

USian in particular is a deliberate choice to say that "American" is the wrong way to refer to people from the US. I still don't think that happens that often except for things like telling people from Tibet that they are Chinese, or the government of Myanmar refusing to use the name Rohingya to refer to those people.

[(Anonymous)]

There are definitely some country names that are just different - off the top of my head, we call Nihon Japan and we call Deutschland Germany.

And I think the case for why some people don't want to call people from the US "Americans" is pretty easy to comprehend. Like, I get where they're coming from. OK. And people respond like it's a slur. It's disproportionate.

[(Anonymous)]

I've used USian for a while because I was told by middle American people to stop using American when referring to people from the US because the continent is America and they, as fellow continental Americans, didn't want to be associated with US Americans.

[philstar22]

It isn't a slur. At all. That's an overreaction and a ridiculous response. But I do think it is rude, I do think that any points in its favor are outweighed by that rudeness, it is needlessly antagonistic, and I also think that most of the time people using it have actual good things to say that are missed because they use that term.