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(Anonymous) 2013-10-17 08:40 am (UTC)(link)You'd think a space that is usually pretty savvy (if not wank-free) about using sociological neologisms and precise terms to help pin down a certain idea ("words have meaning!") would be able to fucking grasp the concept of 'America=the USA' being erasing and imperialistic to millions of people who also have a valid claim to the word and how it is handy to have a separate word to refer to people from the USA specifically.
That does not mean people are going to censor your bumper stickers and your national anthems and impose a New World order lingua franca on your culture, ffs.
The knee-jerk reaction surprises me too. I live in France, and "éta[t]sunien" is occasionally used here - it sounds pretty awkward and is not the most used term but people are aware of the distinction and the problems implicit with colloquially using 'America' solely for the USA.
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So I tend to forget how people from the US get drilled constantly since early age that they're basically their country is the best thing that has happened to History from the Modern Age onwards. They might be the most liberal of the liberal... and still be pretty damn overprotective of certain words.
That does not mean people are going to censor your bumper stickers and your national anthems and impose a New World order lingua franca on your culture, ffs. <- Basically, this :3b