• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    So, you are a USian. I thought so. I never ever heard someone saying “February 27th 2018”, I think only USians do that. Everywhere else it is 27th of February 2018 which is logical.

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      No, I’m American, and I just gave you three good reasons to stop using “USian,” not the least of which being that “US” is not exclusive to the United States of America. Are people from the United States of Mexico United Mexican States USians as well?

      I don’t have the audacity to try and force a different demonym onto you, please don’t do that to me.

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        No, I’m American

        I have no doubt you are an American as much as people from Mexico, Venezuela or Brazil are Americans. The same as people from Germany, Spain or Italy are Europeans.

        United States of Mexico

        There is no such thing.

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            8 days ago

            I know. He apparently doesn’t but that doesn’t surprise me - USians are usually ignorant about anything outside of their borders.

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          The United Mexican States. They still have United States in their name. Notably, they don’t have America in their name, just like every single other country besides the USA. So when we’re talking about the demonym for a particular country, “American” is the one for people in the USA, just like how “Mexican” is the one for people in the United Mexican States.

          Also notably, they live on an entirely different continent from Venezuela and Brazil. Mexicans and Americans are North American, as opposed to Venezuelans and Brazilians who are South American. Lumping these continents together makes as much sense as lumping Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia together. But I know you aren’t trying to make sense, you’re just trying to get under Americans’ skin, so I’m gonna ignore you now

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            I was always curious why USians have issue with them being called USians. America is a continent. You know, like Europe.

            Let’s assume some nation of halfwits creates a country named United States of Earth and will be insistent that since they are the only ones with Earth in country name, they are the only ones to be called Earthlings.

            We would laugh at these halfwits, wouldn’t we? 🤣

            But it is good to see you at least acknowledged your ignorance of geography.

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                  As long as we’re being pedantic bitches, there’s actually anywhere between four and seven, depending on how you define it. Not my fault European schools teach you wrong too

                  Given that continents are generally ill-defined, do you reckon maybe we should simply… ask the people who live there what they want to be called?

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                    Like in my example with halfwits from United States of Earth demanding to be called Earthlings? 🤣