I’m all for inclusion of all people in our society. No one should be prejudiced for who they are.
BUT! Today I have to draw the line! Listening to the Play School alphabet song with my kid and it goes “A, B, C, D…X, Y, zed or zee”. Since when is this blatant destruction of our national identity accepted?
I’ll be picketing outside the ABC’s head office from tomorrow and following that the education office until this travesty can be corrected! Who’s with me?!
Cringe.
Just say Americans mate, we all know you’re not referring to the inhabitants of North America or South America, you’re not correcting any confusion only adding it by not using the countries name.
“America” is not their country’s name either (“USA” is actually closer, now that you mention it)
America is the country’s short/familiar name. Like how the Commonwealth of Australia is just called Australia, the United Mexican States is called Mexico, and the Republic of China is called Taiwan.
Mexicans are americans.
Colombians are americans.
Brazilians are americans.
Unitedstates-ians are americans.
It’s funny because spanish doesn’t have this problem. They call the people from the US estadounidenses which basically is unitedstates-ian.
Mexicans are North Americans
Colombians are South Americans.
Brazilians are South Americans.
Americans are North America but from the country called the United States of America, hence why they get called Americans and Mexicans from Mexico are called Mexicans
No they aren’t.
No they aren’t
No they aren’t.
In every country in the anglosphere, the word “America” is synonymous with “United States of America”. If you want to speak Spanish and talk about America as a single continent as I know is common in Latin American countries, go ahead. But that is not the way the English language is ever used by native speakers.
It also frankly doesn’t make sense. It’s based in the popular idea in Latin American countries that there are 6 continents, including one called “America”. I know the definition of “continent” is fuzzy and categorising them is ambiguous, but I maintain that the only sensible 6 continent model is one which merges Eurasia, relative to the 7 continent model. If you want to talk about the Americas as a single continent, the only way to do that without blatantly coming across as ridiculous is to have a 4 continent model containing Afro-Eurasia and America.
I’m in the Anglo sphere and we call the US the US, it’s citizens ‘US Citizens’ or ‘Yanks’, regardless of state. America is used to refer to the continents.
What you’re describing is a local Americanism and is not globally always true.
Then why is it the United States of Mexico? Calling them and Canadians just reeks of Manifest Destiny bullshit.
I’m sure Mexicans, Canadians, Colombians and Brazilians love being called Americans lol
I live in colombia. All colombians call themselves americans.
Huh, the Columbian I work with has only ever called himself Colombian
Nah, it’s funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?
Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.
Despite the European Union not including all of Europe, a German would definitely call themselves European when describing themselves as a citizen of the EU and not an EUian
Is Australia the entire south of the world?
if you’re asking me to defend the decisions of the British you are looking in the wrong place lmfao.