| Whre is America? It's just like sniper island. Its in your heart. |
| Just have to comment, Bandit Keith is hilarious. I never get old of his love for america. It's so... patriotic. And mostly because of LittleKuriboh, I don't remember remotely if the actual show had Keith repeating America so much. |
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bottle said: Here: What does this have to do with anything? |
FatherAnderson said: What does this have to do with anything? That's what they said at around 2:38 |
| This is almost a mind-fuck since it is kinda confuzing xD But I'm assuming that your American, but keeping in mind that maybe you moved somewhere else for too long that makes you tecnically still american but not really? ... is what I think hard to explain. |
| One would think you're from the USA when you call yourself American. No one I know from any of the Americas call themself American. Even in Peru they say Peruvian... Now if you said Native American... |
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| USA has no real name and that's pretty awful. America is the region in which USA is located, but is USA at the same time... America is inside the North region of America. That's like if today I created a country called United States of Europe located in East Europe. Who will be the europeans? People born in the United States of Europe or people from Europe in general? Confusion arises with all countries with no name. For example, the Central African Republic or CAR, what are they called? Central Africans. Does that mean other Africans living in the center of africa can't be called Central Africans? The problem lied on the inaptitude of Americans (USA) to make up a name for their country. After all, what's logical about saying "America lies in the continent of North America"? Or the country I created today, The United States of Europe lies in East Europe. How can the whole lie in a part? Now that I think about it, was there never propositions for the name of the USA? --- Central Africans should create their own name for their country, as americans should create their own name for their country. |
MomonoNov 18, 2014 3:40 PM
| Well USA has American in it, so generally people seem to assume that the person is from the US. If someone was from Canada, Mexico, etc., I doubt they'd say American as a serious answer. What else would someone from the States be called? Statian? Unitican? USerican? Lol |
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MaiTai said: Well USA has American in it, so generally people seem to assume that the person is from the US. If someone was from Canada, Mexico, etc., I doubt they'd say American as a serious answer. What else would someone from the States be called? Statian? Unitican? USerican? Lol Murican. |
| When someone brings up continental America when it's obvious they mean the USA they just sound butthurt. |
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| This is giving me flashbacks of being lectured in school about how the United States isn't the only part of America. But yeah that's what I'd assume it's just too deeply ingrained into the psyche to ignore. |
Chill_ said: MaiTai said: Well USA has American in it, so generally people seem to assume that the person is from the US. If someone was from Canada, Mexico, etc., I doubt they'd say American as a serious answer. What else would someone from the States be called? Statian? Unitican? USerican? Lol Murican. Same diff as American for the sake of this debate. |
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| I always say I'm from the U.S. so I don't really deal with it, but I do notice most people just associate American with the USA. |
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| Let's change the name of the continent to avoid confusion |
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UnoPuntoCinco said: CanamericoLet's change the name of the continent to avoid confusion |
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| question if you are from Puerto Rico or another American territory do you still call yourself American? |
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| The United States of America. What are the other options? United statesian? Usa..an? I have in laws and friends throughout central america, and they constantly gripe about this. Yes, "America" isn't a single country, so it would be more appropriate to say "USA" or "The United States of America". But when it comes to labeling ourselves, it's the only option that doesn't sound just weird. But hey, propose a word we can use to identify our nationality that actually makes sense, other than "American" and nicknames like yank. mattbenz99, good question, but I've known a lot of people from Puerto Rico, and they just call themselves Puerto Rican. |
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JadeQuetzal said: Maybe it's just too late consider that, but has the idea/suggestion of coming up with an original/unique (one that isn't already used for regions etc) name for the country never been brought up by the internals befoire?The United States of America. What are the other options? United statesian? Usa..an? I have in laws and friends throughout central america, and they constantly gripe about this. Yes, "America" isn't a single country, so it would be more appropriate to say "USA" or "The United States of America". But when it comes to labeling ourselves, it's the only option that doesn't sound just weird. But hey, propose a word we can use to identify our nationality that actually makes sense, other than "American" and nicknames like yank. mattbenz99, good question, but I've known a lot of people from Puerto Rico, and they just call themselves Puerto Rican. |
MomonoNov 18, 2014 7:50 PM
Eearu said: JadeQuetzal said: Maybe it's just too late consider that, but has the idea/suggestion of coming up with an original name for the country never been brought up by the internals befoire?The United States of America. What are the other options? United statesian? Usa..an? I have in laws and friends throughout central america, and they constantly gripe about this. Yes, "America" isn't a single country, so it would be more appropriate to say "USA" or "The United States of America". But when it comes to labeling ourselves, it's the only option that doesn't sound just weird. But hey, propose a word we can use to identify our nationality that actually makes sense, other than "American" and nicknames like yank. mattbenz99, good question, but I've known a lot of people from Puerto Rico, and they just call themselves Puerto Rican. There have been numerous suggestions, but they are never really heard out I guess. Even a couple of years ago, the president of Mexico was talking about how he'd like to change Mexico's formal name. Their formal name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the usa translates to Estados Unidos de America. In spanish we aren't always called Americanos (o gringos), they actually have a word for us... Estadounidense (basically, united statesian...). The Mexican president at the time hated that Mexico's formal name shared that Estados Unidos part, and wanted to change it. So it's not even just the "America" part that bugs people. Every part of our country's name annoys someone. Oh, we just can't win, lol. |
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| I just say that I'm from "The States". Whenever I say I'm American, I feel like I sound like a douche, and then stuff like this comes to mind: |
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JadeQuetzal said: What are the other options? United statesian? Usa..an? Why not just use US-American? That's my personal favorite btw., especially with the "US-" part in brackets like this: (US-)American. |
JadeQuetzal said: That's very interesting, thanks for the info. But even then, changing the formal name of a country sounds much more viable because it doesn't change how they label themselves.There have been numerous suggestions, but they are never really heard out I guess. Even a couple of years ago, the president of Mexico was talking about how he'd like to change Mexico's formal name. Their formal name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, the usa translates to Estados Unidos de America. In spanish we aren't always called Americanos (o gringos), they actually have a word for us... Estadounidense (basically, united statesian...). The Mexican president at the time hated that Mexico's formal name shared that Estados Unidos part, and wanted to change it. So it's not even just the "America" part that bugs people. Every part of our country's name annoys someone. Oh, we just can't win, lol. USA movies alone (which are everywhere and a big part of their media), bring the word "american(s)" and "america" too much by its own, simply shifting the name that has been in use for decades in media everywhere would be too hard at this point, I think. Also, even though the word America or american(s) by itself has no sense of identity/singleness it has been used so much at this point that it probably gives americans a sense of identity by now. Probably infinitely more than Central Africans finding identity in being "central african". Whatever works though... it would still be interesting for seeing usa getting a original/indentity name, just something I find impracticable the usa seems to be a very nationalist country, or so is what their media/internet has led me to believe unmemorable_hero said: |
MomonoNov 19, 2014 10:15 AM
| It is pretty reaching to assume that people from Canada refer to themselves as "American" when they are clearly from, wait for it, Canada... Not to mention that I don't think Canadians, Brazilians, Mexicans, etc would want to be insulted as such. I'm from America, but come on, most people have pride in the country they were born in. |
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LashLethal said: Mexico?America is located in blah blah blah with hell sitting right under it. |
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Scud said: I would assume you're American. Nicole said: It's the United States of America. In other words the country's name is "America" and it is made up of "United States."I've never met a non-US from North/South America calling themselves that. I've never met anyone that would think it was something else either. So only people from the USA are Americans. Unless another country with "America" in its name pops up. But they'd still be posers. |
XeroCleaths said: So, I have a question and I'd like to see how ppl answer. If you don't live in any of the 35 countries that compose the Americas, and I met you online and I said "I'm American", do you assume I live in the United States or do you believe I live in one of the 35 countries composing of the Americas and then proceed to ask me which country it is I live in? (Btw, I'm American and I do know why we refer to ourselves as American.) Well if you spoke English i will assume you are from the USA. Is not wrong to call USA as simply America since the full name is "United states of America" therefore America can just be a short of that name. Besides people from other countries don't call themselves American. A Mexican will say am Mexican a Canadian will say am Canadian etc. |
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