[ SECRET POST #2479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2479 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

People are giving you shit for using 'USian' because it's obnoxious. People from the USA are called Americans because that's how English demonyms work. People from the United Mexican States are Mexicans, people from the USA are Americans, people from the Republic of Chile are Chileans, people from the Federal Republic of Germany are Germans, people from the French Republic are French, people from the Russian Federation are Russian.

The pattern is pretty simple and holds true for every nation on the planet when speaking English.

The reason people are upset with you is because "American" is how the people from the US have referred to themselves for hundreds of years. You wouldn't be very appreciative if everyone started calling Chileans 'Repubs' or something, would you? You'd probably think that was kind of bullshit. Especially if it was used in a negative sense as USian generally is.

(And no, I'm not American and I don't particularly like America. English isn't even my first language. But I've seen USian used as a pejorative often enough on the internet that I find it bothersome, and I can also understand why people would be annoyed with a preachy neologism.)

[lynx]

For the nth time, "USian" was coined in the USA. In liberal-thinking social studies circles and colleges, who proponed a more pan-Americanist view that agreed with the sentiment of the people in The Americas. And it was NEVER meant to be pejorative. People tend to overreact to it, but that's not the word's fault.

What I've trying to convey is that there are another points of view, that do not lie with the hegemony of the USA, which are equally valid. Specially considering plain numbers 33 vs. 2... but the USA POV wins, just because it's the most powerful nation, and meanwhile the rest of us gets erased.

[(Anonymous)]

Would you call people from the Argentine Republic Republicans, then?

Your argument is totally sound, of course.