I live in the United States of Amerikkka and we an actual name and many Latin Americans seem to be annoyed when we call ourselves Americans so I don’t know what to call ourselves? I know a ton of Latin Americans like in Cuba for example called us “Yanquis” and that’s cool but domesticity in the USA Yankee is often only used for specific regions of it, to quote E. B. White:
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
I also hear Latin Americans call us Gringos but I think that would be weird coming from me.
United Statesian is too long,
USAnian sounds stupid,
I’m just waiting for this place to Balkanize
8 posts and 1 image reply omitted.Real Americans identify themselves by their phone number area code.
Personally, and I believe this to be the most sensible approach, I have no issue with the use of "American" as a demonym, because you have it hard to come up with an alternative. My problem is when they use it as a noun, like "I am from America", when you can perfectly say "I am from the US" and it's even shorter. But, as with everything belonging to linguistic correctness, there's no problem as long as you speak in good faith.
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>the globe is reorganized into districts following meridian and parallels grid patterns
the french revolutionaries debated doing this back in the 1700s and determined it was retarded because natural uncrossable barriers like mountains and bodies of water are far more relevant than the lines we draw on the globe.
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