[ SECRET POST #2479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2479 ⌋

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Comments

[ariakas]

Actually that's the way it's taught everywhere else in the world. Except in the US and Canada.

I've heard this from other people living in the southern parts of the Americas before, but having actually lived in other parts of the world, I can tell you that it isn't even remotely accurate. Kids in Asia? Taught that North and South America are distinct continents. Also, Europe. And Australia. Someone from North America is North American. Someone from South America is South American, someone from the USA is American.

The overwhelming majority of the world's population also, including the US and Canada of course but also Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, refers to people from the United States as "Americans" (or their language's equivalent of American; e.g. Amerika-jin in Japanese, Amerikanski in Russian, Américain(e) in French, Americano in Italian, Amerikansk in Swedish, Ameriki in Arabic... ...I could go on. And on.)

I get that it's a thorny political issue in other parts of the Americas but to the majority of the world's population, including Americans themselves, "American" means "person from the United States", and calling oneself an "American" to the majority of the world's population when one is from, say, Brazil, is akin to someone from London calling themselves Eurasiafrican (because they're technically from that continental cluster).

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, where I am coming from using US-American is about as common as using American, especially in a debate... (central Europe here)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

As an Australian, I think the way I know it (as you say, "American" means USA resident to me) is that if you're from any other country, you damn well get called by the name of your country.

Canada is Canadian. Mexico is Mexican. Peru is Peruvian.

If it's someone from South America whose exact country is unspecified, they are "South American", and that's not a political, racial or socioeconomic designation, it's purely geographical, just as all the country names are.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm late, but anyway in Italy we say both Americano AND Statunitense