• @Hobbes_Dent
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    2012 days ago

    Everyone in the Americas who isn’t in the USA has given up trying to explain to them. They aren’t capable.

    • @RupeThereItIs
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      712 days ago

      Nobody in Canada wants to be called American.

      This is a language and continent model issue, the lack of understanding is not in the side of the Americans or the rest of the anglosphere.

      • @Hobbes_Dent
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        111 days ago

        And what if they decided to start calling themselves Earthlings and use it to describe only themselves specifically?

          • @Hobbes_Dent
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            111 days ago

            Neither.

            I’m embarrassed because I can’t call myself American as a Canadian because it’s self-deprecating by association.

  • @[email protected]
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    1011 days ago

    Confusingly, Mexico’s official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. You could accurately describe a Mexican as Estadounidense, if you wanted to be a pedant.

      • Lemminary
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        111 days ago

        But there’s a Gulf! Oh wait nvm.

      • @RupeThereItIs
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        -711 days ago

        There’s no continent named America either, so that is not confusing.

        Those on the continent of North America are north Americans, those on the continent of South America are south Americans, only those from the USA are just American.

        The Americas are two completely different continents, with two distinct continental plates, connected by an isthmus.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 days ago

          Thanks for anglosplaining. Now go look at a wikipedia page or two to see how there are different definitions for continents

          • @RupeThereItIs
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            010 days ago

            Right, but any definition that has those two land masses as a single continent is objectively wrong.

            Same with Eurasia being two, just eurocentric quackery.

            And anybody getting worked up about Americans calling ourselves Americans are flatly on the wrong side of this.

  • @El_guapazo
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    212 days ago

    I was expecting a cup of coffee

  • @cornshark
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    211 days ago

    I think a little translation is necessary. I don’t speak it.