People in Latin America (except maybe Mexico and some others) think the Americas are a single continent called "America", and that therefore Americans -- the people from the nation named America -- don't have the right to use that demonym. This is usually fueled by hostility towards the USA instilled by political groups in Latin America who, uh, seek to oppose them.
In Brazilian Portuguese, we go as far as saying "United-Statesian" or "North American" (thereby even ignoring Canada and Mexico) to mean people from the country called America.
So, where do you stand, Sup Forums? Do you think the Americas are a single continent? Do you think it is okay for the "United-Statesians" to call themselves Americans? I'm interested in how people from other parts of the world see the Americas (here the "single America" thing really is in our education system by the way).
You guys are poor, you have bigger issues than this
Nolan Young
Shut up Eurasian
Jaxon Cooper
Fuck off soon to be culturally enriched, nigger.
Gavin Jenkins
Rest of "The Americas" are irrelevant anyways, why give a shit about them in the first place?
Camden Green
shut your whore mouth
Parker Young
guys guys settle down
Tyler Rodriguez
back the fuck off?!?!?
John Parker
Just answer the OP question, Ahmed.
Jose Murphy
I mean,Southern Europe is barely considered relevant in the first place, why should South Americans who have for several generations fucked Indians be considered relevant (i.e white) in the first place.
Christopher Ramirez
Has Jazeer fucked your girlfriend today yet? She might get pissed at you if he doesn't
Austin Thompson
How does it feel to live under the shadow of Sweden's ~relevance~ in Northern Europe?
Alexander Peterson
>Denmark >Literally who country >More relevant than Argentina or Brazil Where are you again?
Leo Stewart
>Denmark >talking about whiteness Nigga, South America is as white as your country, about 50%
Michael Edwards
>Southern Europe is barely considered relevant in the first place low quality bait right there
Kevin Miller
School children in Denmark send clothes to South Europe in the winter months
How impressive for a country with 8-12 times the population. Compare yourself to France or Britain and think again.
John Green
Why does Denmark feels the need to talk shit about South America, again? Have the insecurity levels reached completly new hights?
Carter Gutierrez
I believe in spanish the whole island, from Canada to Argentina, is called "América", in english its called "the Americas".
The demonym for the inhabitants of the US, in english, is "americans", in spanish it's "estadounidenses".
William Cox
This pretty much.
Mason Gomez
Just stated that you guys should make sure you had food on the table tonight before thinking about such stupid things and then I apparently hit a soft point as you can see
Parker Cooper
Do you think the poor people you see on TV speak English and come to Sup Forums to talk about demonyms?
Adrian Rogers
Yes, we are hungry. I Have not eat anything in a week. Send food.
Samuel Mitchell
You are victims of communist anti-American, "pan-Americanist" indoctrination. As is pretty much all of Latin America, to be quite honest.
Camden Harris
When was the last time you called yourselves "americano", meaning to be from the whole, single-continent of "América"?
Bentley Adams
Last time I saw a movie about Brazil it was about birds. Are you a bird? I will send you leverpostej
Owen Harris
Last time I saw a movie about Denmark it was... well, I don't think I ever did.
Brayden Torres
>Last time I saw a movie about Brazil it was about birds. Are you a bird? this is some kraut-tier bant
Asher Fisher
Perú will try their best!
Jaxon Parker
>Cusco province/region >when your country is so goddamn eternally cucked that the region AND province you live in literally use a rainbow flag
Jaxson Sanders
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Levi White
Same here... In spanish we have the word "united statian" so "americans" is used to describe the whole continent.
Some oldfags get mad if you use America to call the US...
Daniel Peterson
Okay, sad. It's true, very cute movie
Grayson Lewis
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Adam Morales
This is kinda like when Americans say that they don't know where X country is because they're so puny and irrelevant, thinking it makes America look better, when in reality just makes you look ignorant
Cooper Robinson
"American" is proper demonym for inhabitants of the United States, taking into account how demonyms tend to be assigned to the non-political modifier of a nation's epithet.
While I haven't traveled extensively across Latin America, I have been to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. In another three weeks, I'll be spending a month in Mexico.
I was surprised by the common usage of terms like "Las Americas" and "America Latina."
I could be wrong, but I've gotten the feeling that there's a certain sense of unification between Latin American countries, simply because they tend to share closely connected countries, cultures, and pasts.
For instance, there seem to be a lot of schools that have "Las Americas" in their names, like "Universdad de Las Americas" in Quito. However, I've noticed noticed the singular "America" being used nearly as often.
So far as I can tell, people in Latin American identify with their national (Colombian, Mexican, etc), cultural (Latin American), and ethnic backgrounds (Quechua, Caribbean, European, etc) than simply a continental background ("American").
As such, I see nothing wrong using the demonym "American" in English, considering that "American" follows the English-language convention for the designation of demonyms.
Angel Brown
Eh, I've learned in school there isn't a single 'America'; there's North/Central/South America as geopolitical divisions, and Anglo-Saxon/Latin America as regional divisions.
However, 'Estadounidense' sounds quite cringy and lefty. Normal people call people from USA Americans or North-Americans and I do the same.
Angel Brown
I was taught that it's a single continent and that NA, CA and SA are subcontinents. I don't care if they want to be called Americans though.
Asher Walker
""""The Americas"""" are a single continent There's only 4 continents: afroeurasia, America, Antarctica and Oceania
Evan Hughes
That's what I was taught in school as well.
Luis Cooper
>Argentina >More relevant than literally any European country HAHAHAHAHA
Jason Richardson
In Mexico most people call those faggots "Gringos"
Thomas Baker
Are you for real m8? Denmark is literally less relevant than Venezuela
Jonathan Wood
OP smells of nigger and hipsterism.
- Nobody calls Americans "North-Americans", only Estadunidense. The North-American definition was always reserved for a larger group comprising the three countries in the subcontinent. There is "Anglo-Saxon, but it refers to USA and Canada. - EVERYONE learns the same "there are 6 continents" in school, even Americans, so they're aware it's a single continent, split into 3 subcontinents; - Thinking "American" is an inappropriate term is not exclusive to Latin America - the French, for instance, have états-unien.
The fact is Americans use this because their country is not a normal country. It's an agglomerate of 50 different countries, under the same flag. That's what "UNITED STATES" mean. In other words, they don't have a country name to call themselves. It's like a person from Honduras trying to find a common name with a Guatemalan and a Colombian.
Oliver Taylor
You have an issue with understanding contexts. Why would you call yourself americano in brasil talking to brasilians, or in colombia talking to colombians.
Liam Ortiz
Not OP but calling burgers "north-americans" was fairly common where I live.
>The fact is Americans use this because their country is not a normal country. It's an agglomerate of 50 different countries, under the same flag. That's what "UNITED STATES" mean. >In other words, they don't have a country name to call themselves. It's like a person from Honduras trying to find a common name with a Guatemalan and a Colombian. You're retarded, USA is a federation of states just like Brazil and many other countries.
Henry White
No, it's more like an intermediate between Brazil and the European Union.
States are way more autonomous and they decided to form a country for economical/political reasons, unlike Brazil which was expanded gradually.
Justin Green
wtf I love Legoland now
Charles Cruz
Sure, their states are more autonomous but they are still part of the same country and saying otherwise is completely retarded.
Ryan Gomez
I think this perspective is laughable and somewhat pathetic, as I am an AMERICAN
Elijah Nelson
I'm enjoying so much this massive internet fight.
Anthony Martin
>yuros trigger spics
A blessing
Jacob Wilson
it's not a trigger if it comes from a literally who country.
Leo Wilson
This is stupid. Nobody really cares how americans are called, except for autists on the internet. If there's some resentment against americans, it's because of their imperialism, not for some gerund bullshit. They were the first independent nation on this continent, let them take whatever name they want
Noah Green
Top tier response
Mason Cox
I like your rational outlook
keep being awesome
Luke Martin
this
William Lewis
(OP) >we're all america >can't agree on wtf america constitutes
this is why you are poor
Ryan Thomas
Not content with occupying thrice the space a normal human being would, the American makes it its mission to occupy as much space as possible online too.
Levi Moore
>United-Statesian This is the only reason people from the US call themselves American. United Statesian doesn't sound right and it's tiring saying "I'm from the United States" every time someone asks when you could just say I'm American.
Luke Sanchez
Nobody really identifies with their continent here, it's always the nationality first. Your people are called americans because you have America in your country's name, the same as if i'd call myself ecuadorian. Sure, that eliminates the possibility to imply a reference to the continent when saying "american", but the solution for that is simple, just say "of the Americas" (in spanish "de América" o "de Las Américas" like our university in Quito). Thse things happen, languages aren't perfect.
Jeremiah Cooper
>languages aren't perfect We perfected castellano desu
Cooper Edwards
Gringos, yankees, golpistas hijos de puta, there are several names for them.
Christian Smith
Chilean "spanish"
Asher Parker
you insult us but i bet the majority of you people would love to live here.
We will only take your best women who would love to marry a white person. the rest of you enjoy living in a shit hole.
Jace Jenkins
No thanks, I'd like to live in a country with less poverty and crime.
Justin Morgan
Posting in the red.dit thread
Julian Fisher
i legit would rather spend the rest of my life in Mexico, I detest your culture
Asher Hill
I wouldn't live there unless it's in a small town. I really hate having to drive long distances. I wouldn't like falling asleep while driving on one of those long highways, and crash.
Elijah Cox
Brazil also was called the United States of Brazil at a point in the early republic, that never made it a bunch of countries lmao
Chase Fisher
From what I understand, the only state in the USA that could be somewhat akin to a country -- but never really sovereign, not anymore -- would be Texas.
Parker Smith
I think it might boil down to that
Christian Nelson
More like made it unintelligible even for other native Spanish speakers
Asher Martin
Except Brazil already defined the country, whereas "America" refers to the whole continent. They are "United (some) States of America (but not all)", that's the whole problem.
James Jenkins
BTFO
Sebastian Jones
What continent? It's two continents with a strip of land in the middle.