"American" when speaking to people IRL and "US-American" when speaking to people online that dislike the people of the USA being called by the former demonym.
Brazilian here, the terms "norte americano" and "estadunidense" are not necessarily the most widly used ones (at least not by a large margin), but they are common enough, and just "americano" (american) can be used just for the US or for the whole continent, depending on the context. "Estadunidense" seems to be the most common in academic literature, and "norte americano" can be ambiguous for also pontencially including Canada and Mexico
Personally, I would use "American" in the broader sense of all "peoples of the Americas". It depends on context. But it shows that how people from other parts of the world view the term "American" is not necessarily the same in the rest of the Americas. But the reason for people of the US calling themselves "Americans" is historical, with the migrations an all, and thus it is reserved to them, at least in the English language and languages of people from countries which they came. Originally, meant as "of/belonging to America". As "my American family members".
Mexican here, when it comes to referring to people from the US, what's most common is "gringo" for everyday talk, and estadounidense if you're writing something more formal. I've never seen "Norteamericano" be used because most Mexicans see The Americas as a single continent, and when we do use the term "North America", we mean the US, Canada, and Mexico
@@jakephreel "don't call us American just because your family is trying to flee here" It's just a way to call someone from a certain country, more commonly the USA, if you're triggered by it then that's your problem
Gringo is probably the most offensive term you could call many of us. I automatically assume your a racist and xenophobe. Because the people who use the term means it to be rude and derogatory. It is meant to bring down others. It's a term along with many others that needs to not be accepted.
@@baronvonjo1929 its a term to refer to a person, it's like saying that someone is immigrant, so that word is offensive too, and you're the one being racist because apparently saying gringo is racist, assuming that Americans are only a single race, so you're excluding people like black people for example from term American, the people who use the term mean it in a normal way, if you're offended by it then that's your own fault
As a Canadian, I have no issue calling people from the US as American. I actually find it more annoying when people from Europe “correct” me online about how Canadians are also Americans. This happens far more often than I would have expected.
As an American who loves my Canadian friends, I wouldn't want anyone (Europeans or otherwise) to call you Canadians Americans... I'd get offended if I were Canadian and that happened... haha! I did, however, pretend to be Canadian on my solo backpack trip to the UK back in the 90s. Heh.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 I don't feel the need to shout my patriotism from the rooftops, so I'm not worried. If you've ever traveled to other countries, you've seen how we are perceived. In fact, I was on a small, local tour in Scotland... and there was an American family there we all dubbed The Griswolds. Telling people I was Canadian didn't give them any stereotypical preconceived notions about me.
Hey there, Costa Rican here! "Estadounidense" is most definitely a very utilized word for calling a person from the USA. So much so that I don't really hear anyone saying "americano" in my daily life (though there probably is people). "Norteamericano" is also a fairly used word too. We also have "gringo" which can certainly be derogatory for some US people but over time we kinda forgot it was offensive and used it more in a more friendly manner jeje. Personally, when I'm talking in English I jokingly like to call Americans "usasians", just think it's really goofy
When you think about it, the EU has a similar problem, where the adjective referring to something of the EU is "European", and yet they don't encompass the whole continent of Europe.
Good point. I think this is the most approximate example possible. With the exception made that the EU is potentially an all-encompassing pan-european ideal, while USA isn't
@@bennythetiger6052 The whole problem is the US using the name "America", even though they don't encompass the entire continent of America. It's essentially the same thing. There are countries that are not in the EU, but that are nonetheless in Europe, even if you use the least generous definition of what "Europe" is, and that includes not recognizing Europe as a separate continent (as even then you would need to acknowledge that there is an area of the world called "Europe" in Eurasia or Afroeurasia).
@@Vrealita Manifest Destiny would disagree with, "E.U. potentially represents all of Europe, while the USA doesn't." So would the Monroe doctrine or many interventions since. I do not often like many of the reasons my nation interferes with other Nations from the Americas, but saying the "American" name rooted in 1800's imperial ambitions wasn't rooted in ideals or intentional is be blind to a few dozen wars, (ignoring the hundreds of indian wars the usa fought.) Wars or War-like Actions include: Panamanian indipendance, Mexico 3 times, CIA coups for everyone, Canada twice, Spain twice, Cuba, several island nations, Haiti a number of times, the British Twice, and lots of other weird stuff. Also Billions and Billions in trade, aid, and investment are done yearly. I forget how much of USA trade is from the Americas, but i know that Mexico and Canada have remained in the top 3 or 4 trading partners for 30years usually beating China.
You also have the United Republic of Tanzania If you want to go to Union countries too then you also have the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Union of the Comoros
@@Vrealita it's "United Mexican States" when translated to English. but then, it would be "United American States" too. in Spanish, the name is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos". just some fun facts.
Also in italian we have "statunitense" as a demonym for americans. Typically used to avoid repetition of words or in more formal contexts (like on wikipedia).
Yeah what I don't like about that though is its about the United States, which is just one government that has existed here, and will probably not exist here at some point in the future. America as a nation really begins in the 1600's, long before there is a United States.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 America as a nation didn't exist before America as a nation existed... what are you on about brother. Before there was a UNITED STATES OF AMERICA there was no such thing as an American Nation. At that point in time America only meant the continent of America, it only started meaning someone from the United States of America when the USA was created, and then the continents were divided in two in the English language to avoid confusion.
@@josephabellojr The United States is just a constitution, a "union of states". It's a sovereign law and that is it. The actual nation is America, and it has existed since the 1600's. In the case of France, the nation is France, which is ancient, while the country is the Fifth Republic, which has existed since 1958. Since they are coterminous, both America and the United States can be referred to as a nationstate. Nationstates are so common in today's world that we tend to sometimes use the words nation and country interchangeably, but a nation is a people whereas a country is a sovereign jurisdiction of law.
in Afrikaans we have a particular conundrum regarding the demonyms. the name of the language literally translates as "from Africa", but the people who speak it have adopted it as their cultural identity especially with the term "Afrikaner" (Afrikaner refers to a single person, while also being a colloquial term referring to the descendants of the Dutch Settlers, ie Afrikaans-speaking white people). both terms almost exclusively refer to people who speak Afrikaans as their native language. however, the demonym for a African-born person (especially Black people) is also technically "Afrikaans". We apply the same rules to other countries that end in "-can", so "American" becomes "Amerikaans/Amerikaner" and "South Africa" becomes "Suid-Afrikaans/Afrikaner". in order to distinguish the Black Africans and non-Afrikaans speaking white people from the Afrikaans-speaking population, we refer to them as "Afrika-mense" (African people) and Engelse Suid-Afrikaners (English-speaking South Africans).
im from Argentina, and yeah, we call them "estadounidense" because its simple and concise enough, in almost slang ultra casual you can also hear "yanqui" with mostly no ill intent, mostly because most of us don't even really care(or know) about the etymology of the word, it has been adopted as a informal way to call someone from the united states
Being fair yankee lost its derogatory power immediately given the US Revolutionary Armies openly took the term either pride especially in the North. And the last ones to use it as an insult in anyway (disregarding sports/city rivalry stuff) were the slave holding losers.
@@DORAisD34D Do it I dont care. We are not 'Hispanic', neither 'Latino'. We are Argentinians. The worst thing that you can call us is Nazi's, probably. Because you dont even know where our country is.
Back in the day, my Junior or senior year of high school we had a Venezuelan exchange student. One day he was telling us about an exchange he got into with a local when he called himself an American... The local refused to accept he was American. "Yeah, I'm from Venezuela!" "SEE! YOUR NOT AMERICAN!" "yes I am... Venezuela is in South America, so technically"
I'm American and live in Honduras (Central America). Estadounidense is like the right way to go but people just call us "gringo" (male) and "gringa" (female) most times. Whenever I want to say I'm American without using "American", I go with "I'm from the United States" or "I'm from the US", etc.
@@randlebrowne2048 Yes! I'm from Florida and that's also a good way to identify. The thing is that some states are recognized internationally more than others like New York, California, Texas, Florida. If I said I'm from Idaho, most people outside of the US would have no idea what that is lol.
I don't see the big deal. Foreigners call people from the USA "Americans" all the time as a specific national identity. They don't seem to have a problem with it. It's shorthand for United States of America. "America" is part of our name. Everyone knows that. It's not about excluding Mexicans, Brazilians, Canadians, etc. It's just simply an abbreviated way of referring to people of the United States of America. Frankly, I think this whole subject is a nitpicky way to find yet another thing about the USA to complain about because they think it's trendy and makes them sound virtuous.
In English though, the demonym "American" has been used since the colonial period, before it was ever used to apply to anybody else. There's no reason to change it now just because somebody has an axe to grind.
In Spanish language, also in colonial times Spanish Americans from the whole continent were called "Americanos", so as to differentiate them from "European (Peninsular)" Spanish people. So the "American" identity also predates the Independence of Hispanic American nations and it is a unique identifier that give us the sense of a common belonging, as well as a shared history and struggles.
I think the core of the issue is that unlike many other regions in the Americas, the US didn't have a "secondary name" by the British during the colonial period as the region was just known as "the Thirteen Colonies". So with no other pan-state demonym that wouldn't upset parts of the country, "American" just became the defacto term.
It’s quite interesting that we sometimes use the term US to refer to something belonging to the USA instead of American for a lot of things. Such as US Dollars, US Border, US Soil, US Senate, US Person, US President, etc. In fact I think that is the official term that is used by the government, not “American”.
In English it's American. Words can mean more than one thing. One can say American and mean someone from either continent in the Americas as well as someone from the USA. I don't understand why that is an issue. Let's say someone is from Honduras and goes to Paris, let's say. If asked what their nationality is why would they identify with their continent and not their nation? It makes zero sense. I respect that in SPANISH we are called Estadunidenses, but in English it's American. I would prefer to identify with my city or state than use a term like Usonian or United Statesian.
This. If I'm in Mexico or Peru, I say estadounidense because I was taught that's the proper term. All countries or languages have the opportunity to create their own words for things - so I don't understand why it would be unfair for English to use the work American to refer to the people or things from the USA. We have different words/terms when referring to the region of The Americas - North American, South American, New World, Pan American... so there isn't any confusion. Also worth noting that for most of Latin America, they consider North and South America to be one continent and not two - so that probably adds to the confusion. Same as how some nations consider Europe and Asia to be one continent and not two, but it isn't unfair that English people don't call themselves Eurasian.
More simple is they are just europeans in america and real Americans are the Natives. we call europeans in any of the Americas eruo-americans if they are not Native.
So why people still use these phrases?: “he is African”, “she is an European girl”, “they love Asian food”. You have not understood how big is this issue regarding the identity for those living in The Americas.
@@geografisica When has anyone, when speaking English, been confused by someone saying "she's an American girl"? In English, no one would ever say something is American and mean it came from Canada or Argentina or anywhere other than the US. And, in English, North America and South America are separate continents - so you would refer to things as North or South American if you were referring to the whole continent. It's pretty rare to need to speak about the entirety of The Americas - it's usually only done politically or historically and there are terms specific to that in English. So I'm not sure what the issue is.
As a Costarican I refuse to Call unitedstatians "americans" and I have never meet a Costa Rican who calls then "americano" we only call them "Estadunidense" or "Gringo"
In spanish “estadounidense” is more common than “americano”. Also in french is common the term “états-unien” than “américain”. In South America it can be rude to use the term “americano” when referring only to the USA. There’s a song by Residente called “This is not America” who refers to this polemic from a latin perspective.
No need to change. North American, South American. I would never use the word American to describe someone from North or South America any more than I would use the word Eurasian to describe someone from Europe or Asia.
@@James_Dolensky America is a continent. If not, then what is America? What does 'America' represent in the official name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲?
@@James_Dolensky America is a continent. Hence the 'America' in the official name of the USA 🇺🇲 Correct, no need for cardinal points to tell me where countries are in America. An American is from the Continent of America!
Here in Argentina is more common to hear "Yanqui" (Yankee) in casual conversation with "Estadounidense" and "Norteamericano" being more formal, and many people do consider it incorrect or even a bit offensive to refer to an US citizen as "Americano". The one we definitely don't use is "Gringo" since here "gringo" usually means blonde or it can even refer to someone of German descent.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 I wasn't suggesting it, I was just pointing out a thing that happens, it's not like neither you or me can change how the dialect works. It is what it is, and it isn't that rare for a name that originally only applied to one region to later get generalized to a whole country.
Yankee refers to people from the north east coast using it to define any American is kinda wrong as you wouldn’t call everyone a midwesterner or a Californian
@@AnimatedStuffCountryballs North west Easy south there's still the same América 🤡 Is just the a Us concept to exclude people From others countrys That concept Is only used in US but un the most countrys of América like latam use the concept of one América and the other a sub divition not important Is just like a votation 👈🤡
I remember for a while, there was a small group of people calling us the United Statesians but anyone who used that term usually were very smug about it.
In the rare event that you need to refer to someone or something pertaining to the Americas as a whole--and not specifically the U.S., North America, or South America--couldn't you simply say "pan-American" to avoid any confusion?
Here a Mexican, in the schools of Mexico (and from what I can see, in all Hispanic America), they refer to the "Americas" in a single continent. "North America" and "South America" are subcontinents within the continent of America (Central America would be considered a "region" within North America, but it is not considered another subcontinent of America). And indeed, we refer to people from the US as "Gringos" informally or "Estado unidense" as formal talk. I used to call people from the US "Americans", but one day I had to argue with a Gringo who presumed to be from "America" and I from "Beans Land" (Mexico) (I really did not give importance to his discrimination). Anyway, I told him that I am also from America and the guy just made fun of it and then I realized that in the US they teach geography in a totally different way than the rest of the American continent. We cannot consider "North American" either because just like the US, there is also Canada and Mexico and it can only be used when we talk to people from South America, Europe, etc. to locate them from which part of the American continent we are foreigners.
Chilean Southerner here, we use the term "estadounidense" as the default american denonym, though "north american" is mostly used in terms of canda and US as a general cultural area as you might've guessed. Calling someone "americano" might give you some seconds of confused looks, people here dont associate "americano/a" with being from the US since its such a borad term, so it might take some time for them to figure it out. Even when we have a whole section of clothing called "Ropa Americana" (american clothing) most people struggle to make the connection, including myself for most of my life. Im not sure how things are in the big cities, since i live in a pretty rural area. Yankee is mostly used by older folk (anyone above 35) to refer to anyone coming from the states though its usage in recent times has declined. Gringo has been and continues to be the generally used term for any european-looking foreigner at least here, from italian, german, canadian to brittish anyone with fair skin that doesnt speak your tounge can be considered a gringo.
@@Uriel4-9-476 so gringo means foreigner? Then why is it used by Hispanics IN THE US to refer to white Americans or Hispanics who are not culturally Hispanic?
@@DORAisD34D I don't care what they do. In my country we don't use that stupid ass mexican word. It's funny because you get angry by it. I would use yankees for your people
People always find something to be offended by. The people in the colonies in what is now the United States were called Americans for 400 years, now it's a problem. So what do those offended want people from the United States of America to be called, United Statesians? Go bother someone else with your problem.
Petty envy. They hate us, and want to strip us of our nationality based on some myth that they are "confused" and or "offended" by a moniker they pretend was "stolen" from them despite the fact that we were a nation back when they were all SPANIARD subjects of the crown of Spain. They can all seriously go sod off.
Well said! You tell'em! OH NO! The Americans call themselves.......AMERICANS!!!!! What a stupid thing to complain about. I'm with you all the way on this one.
I'm Brazilian and honestly I've heard this debate since I was a kid and I find it very cringy. Yes, America is the name of the continent and also the name of the country. I know about the "cultural" issue, but I think worrying about this is at least somewhat childish. Here in Brazil we have states and cities sharing names and that's not a big issue; while there are still different words for someone born in the city of São Paulo (paulistano) and the state of São Paulo (paulista), most of the time people will know what place you're talking about just from the context. I won't mind if a new official name for someone born in the US is crafted, but, if it's to be made from scratch, let's make something which at least resembles American (such as paulista/paulistano) or at least something completely original (for example: someone born in the city of Rio is carioca, someone born in the state of Rio is fluminense; none of these words resemble the Portuguese word Rio, which means river). Statesian is just horrible. Kingdomish too. Some people in Brazil say "estadunidense" instead of "americano" and it sounds cocky and stupid. Either a nicer name is created or we stick to "American" and trust the context until a new name starts to occur naturally. That's not that big of an issue.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b this is somewhat debatable, but yes, generally when someone here wishes to refer to themselves as from a certain continent, they go with South American, not just American. In fact, this "American pride" thing is highlighted only when this "Americans shouldn't be called Americans" "debate" comes up.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b More like how Eurasia and Africa are separate. They are literally MORE separate than Europe is from Asia, where neither geography nor geology supports the distinction.
Yankee is usually considered derogatory and that's why it isn't very popular. Out of all your suggestions, the only one I really liked was: fredonian. This is because the USA is big on our freedoms. Maybe it should catch on.
The other problem with the term “Yankee” is that it’s use is highly regional within the United States. To paraphrase an old quote… “To the world, a Yankee is someone from America. To an American, a Yankee is someone from the north. To someone from the north, a Yankee is someone from the northeast. To someone from the northeast, a Yankee is someone from New England. To someone from New England, a Yankee is someone from Vermont. And to someone from Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.”
If you ask someone from Central America, South America, Mexico, some European countries, Africa and Asian, they'll tell you that the US is not to much about freedom (((
Chilean here! In my experience, the most common demonyms for the USA are "estadounidense" and "gringo", for formal and informal contexts, respectively. Though gringo is also valid for any (non spanish) western european, as well as australians. In that sense, it is really a synonym for "white" or "colonizer", and may be used in a derogatory way. "North-american" is also used, often to prevent repeating "estadounidense" over and over (e.g. in the news). "American" is also used, but it often leads to misunderstandings and I personally only use it when I'm talking about the continent. Using it as a demonym for the US may also have a slight political undertone, as it is mostly used in that way by "gringos" and right-wingers, and evokes the phrase "South America is the backyard of the US" and its ties to imperialism.
America is not a country or a nation. Since it's neither of those, 'American' is not a nationality, a citizenship or a term exclusively for/from the USA 🇺🇲. Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of America 🌎👍 'Estadounidense' is a direct & accurate translation of the official citizenship of the United States of America 🇺🇲. Estado(State)Unido(United)Ense(Inhabitant, resident, citizen of the region or area) Estadounidense = U.S. Citizen Officially 👍
As far as calling Americans 'Yankees', there are actually large swaths of the country that'll get angry at you... Just like calling a Scotsman 'British'.
It's actually more akin to calling a Scotsman English. Southerners have been known to say Yankee about North Easterners in approximately the same contexts as an angry Scotsman saying Sassenach.
@@MuriKakari I'm talking as a West-Coast USA person who has been SCREAMED at by a Scotsman for calling her a Brit IRL, took her about a minute to look like she didn't want to attack me afterward. >.>
Colombian here, definetly the most used demonim is "Estadounidense" followed by "Gringo" and then perhaps "Americano" but yes we see it as an appropiaton of a continental identity.
Fun fact before Colombia became independent it was a debate in US congress to change the name of the usa to Colombia. but then Colombia got its independence and so the debate ended
I wanna press you on this: Why do you think there's a shared continental identity between people from the northern islands of Canada, through Mexico, down to Tierra del Fuego? Don't you think that's far too broad?
The reason the term American stuck is cuz it was used before the US was even a thing. Back in the old colonial times we would have been called "British American" and after the revolution, obviously, the British part was dropped and people just kept using American. And there is still the issue that the US isn't the only country divided into states just like how Britannia isn't the only one with a Kingdom. Really the issue is there's no unique word to use for the US both within and outside the country that doesn't feel clunky or confusing to us, like for example Washingtonian could be confused with people from the state of Washington. at least Britain is the only place with the British name. If anything i think all we need is a simple modifier or alteration of American so the shift isn't so jarring and potentially confusing, it could be as simple as Americonian or something. the more familiar it is the less pushback there would be, large sudden language shift can be confusing and jarring and would upset anyone of any country
But the big issue is we would need to push against over 400 years of this term being used for the people living in what used to be the British American Colonies. That's an extremely uphill battle as there's so many documents and stories and media that refer to us as American it would take a very long time for it to fall out of use especially with those in the states who feel a very very very strong connection to the word American so i doubt any change will happen unless there is a miracle
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@@CaptainAmerica001 I brought up British America as why Americans still get called American as, unlike Brazil, we never got a unique Demonym to refer to ourselves and the general term "American" stuck. I do agree that it has problems though and it would take a lot of work and effort to change due to how long this demonym has been getting used. And yes American is not a legally recognized nationality, it's a demonym, the nationality would be United States of America. And I know what United States of America means the issue is the demonym American, used to refer to the colonial people on the Central North American territory colonized by the British, predates the United States by a good few 100 years. And being Generic is the problem, the name USA is way too generic, other countries have United States in their name but then have a unique name like Mexico, Venezuela, and Columbia. The best solution I can see is to make a more unique demonym with what we already have: US-American or Americonian. Hell I'm even fine with using State names as demonyms the only issue is it requires everyone else to know the names of every state in the US and also Georgia could cause confusion for some.
@@Ace-theCat How about using our official nationality or citizenship instead of the demonym that belongs to the Continent of America? Don't we do that already for other countries?
@@CaptainAmerica001 No, we don't. How nationality is legally written is very different from how demonyms are used in conversation. Take Kiwi for example, it is a demonym but the legally recognized nationality is New Zealand, just the name of the country with no modification. While that is a good starting point it is the whole reason we're in this problem to begin with. most places that follow the name format "United _____ (of) ______" always ends up with the final term becoming their demonym like Mexico or historically Brazil, even the Emirates adopts the terminal word of their name as their demonym. The USA just has a really poorly thought out name. Also there is no Continent of America, there are called The Americas because there are two of them North America (From Greenland to Panama) and South America (From Venezuela to Chile) it is similar to how Europe and Asia exist on the same land mass but are separated into two distinct continents anyways, but we are still all American if we so choose to use the term.
United Statesian would sound ridiculous. So we are Americans. Before that we were Englishmen. We in the south definitely aren't Yankees! That's like calling us S.O.B's. In 1655 my 8th great grandfather arrived in Virginia from the Isle of Man.
Here in Brasil we normaly use "Americano", because we are so used to it, but recently, mainly younger people, have been using "Estadunidense" a lot more, making it easier to diferrenciate from the rest of the continent. In recent years our people have been praising the USA a lot less, making it inevitable to start using diffent denonyms for its people.
@@GeneralBulldog54 There is no exact translation. I had heard that it comes from the word "griego" (Greek), and people used it to describe someone who spoke a foreign language because they thought they spoke Greek. In Mexico, most people use it as a synonym for "estadounidense", although there are some people who also use it to refer to Canadians.
@@GeneralBulldog54 the origin story i grew up with was that during the battle of the alamo, mexican soldiers would sneak up and hear texans singing "where the *green grass grows*" and it came from ther. Gringo usually means WASP americans, sometimes black americans are called that too, but mostly to white americans
@@GeneralBulldog54 I understand that "Gringo" was used when referring to the people of the USA in an annoying tone, but in itself it never meant an insult to the people of the USA. Currently, calling people from the US "Gringo" is more of an informal tone of calling them. But when you speak formally, we call them "Estadounidense."
Let me clear this up for you. My mother is Dutch. My father is Blackfoot. My fiance is Jewish. All of us are Americans, because we are from and/or live in the USA. Even if I've never encountered anyone who wants to (both because of national pride and the often negative perception of the term internationally) someone from Canada or Paraguay is free to call themselves American if they want, because words frequently have multiple definitions. I think you're the only one with a problem here.
In English, it's correct to use the term North Americans and South Americans to refer to which continent you're from. Americans are called that bc at the time, there were no other American nations. Dibs.
@@UCYIBDa1 Oh, you edited, I see. Back then, before Independence, there was already a common "American" identity in Spanish American territories, as opposed to European "Peninsular" Spaniards. You did not invent the term "American".
@@Vrealita The only thing I did in the edit was add the word "dibs". Also, we're not speaking Spanish. And you're wrong. In 1780, we were the only ones on the planet called Americans. Everyone else would have been a "French-colonist" or whatever.
Dominican here (from the Spanish speaking country lol), we do use estadounidense a lot more than anything else if we're talking about formal speech, but in most cases anyone speaking English is called a gringo.
@Forgotten User yeah why not, north americans fit right in english, but if sometimes you are in a spanish country or talking in a spanish language for reasons xD, it gonna take more than you comment to change that becuase its the right term in that language , but hey i gonna do it, because you want be call like that, and im talking in english too, so here you got my north american fellow
@Forgotten User but just throwing ideas here, if we combined the two maybe... we can call it... hear me out... Super america or Mega america or America plus, maybe thats taken (?) xD names are difficult xD
In conclusion, regardless of what continental model anyone follows, it doesn't automatically make América a country & 'American' a term only for the U.S.A.🇺🇲!👍 América definitely is not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' isn't a nationality, a citizenship, or a term exclusively for the U.S.A.🇺🇲 Anyone who uses these terms as such is due to selfishness, ignorance, conceitedness, laziness, stubbornness, indoctrination, and/or arrogance! Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of América!👍 The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 has a simple, basic, generic, & descriptive name that's easy to comprehend & not misinterpret in any way or language! The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 simply means we are STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent 'OF' AMÉRICA! Not América of the United States!!!😏 It's what our Founding Fathers & authors meant, and still means!👍 Greetings from the U.S.A.🇺🇲, an American from the Continent of América! English is my 1st language! AMÉRICA 🌎🌎🌎 🇲🇽🇧🇷🇨🇴🇦🇷🇨🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪🇨🇱🇪🇨🇬🇹🇧🇴🇭🇹🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇳🇵🇾🇸🇻🇳🇮🇺🇲🇨🇷🇵🇦🇺🇾🇯🇲🇹🇹🇬🇾🇸🇷🇧🇿🇧🇸🇧🇧🇱🇨🇬🇩🇻🇨🇦🇬🇩🇲🇰🇳 United States of AMÉRICA 🇺🇲 An American is from the Continent of América. We are ALL Americans!!! I approve this message.👍 Hopefully that'll help!👍
@@noirekuroraigami2270 America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America. No one from the Continent of America has to fight for the title of being American!
An intriguing video as always Name Explain. Although, I'd like to try and expand on a point that you *surprisingly* *only* *briefly* touched, since most comments here are from the perspective of *Romance language* speakers. *Not all non-English languages have the same translation for the United States of America* (except for the aforementioned Romance languages). Thus there is not a single solution that fits all. I don't know how would you translate the "United States of America" in languages such as Japanese or Arabic, but I presume that they don't have an equivalent of United Statesian/Estadounidense/Estadunidense in their language. Or that they do, but it's rarely, if ever, used by their speakers for one reason or another. Thus calling them, say, "Amerika-jin" or "Amrikki" is easier. Take Malay and Indonesian for example - our translation for the United States of America is Amerika Syarikat/Serikat (due to historical reasons), which literally means something like "American Union/Cooperation/Company" instead of a more correct term like "Negeri-negeri Bersatu Amerika" or "Kesatuan Negeri-negeri Amerika". And we call the people "Orang Amerika" - Americans. Thus, if you take away the "Amerika" part of the name, we are left with Syarikat/Serikat, which means "Union/Cooperation/Company". Thus we would be calling them "Orang Syarikat/Serikat", which is equivalent to calling them Unioners/Cooperationers/Companiers. It just sounds so awkward and does not pronounce easily. Sure, a term can be coined and it may work, but it'll take a very, very long time. We could just take the easy way and call them Orang Barat (Westerners) or Orang Puteh or Bule (White People) like most of us are doing now, but that'll open up another can of worms I presume.
Actually Japanese do have an alternative for Amerika-jin: it's Beikoku-jin. Beikoku is the abbreviature of "Amerika Gasshuukoku" ("United States of America"). The "koku" comes evidently from "Gasshuukoku", while the "Bei" is the alternative reading for the kanji that means "rice", which happens to have also the reading "me" in "Amerika". This is because you can actually write "Amerika" in kanji, not only with katakana. As a Costa Rican, when I'm speaking in Japanese, I always use "Beikoku" and "Beikoku-jin" to refer to USA and their people respectively. If a Japanese happen to ask me why I use that actually not so used word, I explain why I prefer it, without trying to start a fight, of course.
Gonna be hard to change that, especially since many people also add ethnicity demonym next to American, in regards to their identity, such as Japanese American, Polish American, and Mexican American.
We like being called American. We get its not really correct, but, its most commonly used and by far the most accepted term by people that live in the US. In english, anyway. i still vibe with other languages not using a form of american
@@julietab-ej6clI mean the other two common terms are southerner or Yankee in usa for their people or Texan which are both Texan and southern. Unless you want to call people from usa by their state/region name I suggest just using american as we all still agree we're americans at least for now.
In Italy there's also the term "statunitense ", although it's not often used colloquially, but it's the go-to demonim if you're a journalist, you write fiction or just want to talk more formally. As we speak casually, as it's been said in the video, we say americano / americana depending on grammatical gender. Fun fact, styles of coffee like Americano, cappuccino, espresso end with o because they refer to and agree in gender with "il Caffè ", that is masculine.
What about the term "Vespucian", in tribute to "Amerigo Vespuci" from whom "America" is derived? That way, "Americans" would still be named after the continent, but cause less misunderstandings with Latin Americans and people outside the Americas.
The United Republic of Tanzania must feel left out here. In Year 7 French we were always taught to say《 je suis anglais 》or《 je suis gallois 》so I didn't hear the word 'britannique' until Year 10 when we watched a video in class about a guy from... you guessed it, Northern Ireland! My Dad is technically a "U.S. Ian" ever since he got naturalized citizenship. In German you sometimes see "US-Amerikaner" and "US-amerikanisch" in order to make it absolutely clear they're not referring to some other America, but the scope for confusion is narrower than in say, Mexico or Brazil.
As a mexican I can confirm that "Estadounidense" is the correct and common demonyn used in spanish, but the most common colloquial one we use (at least in México) is "Gringo". The legend I've heard of how that demonyn originated states that the term comes from the 1848's US invation of Mexico where the US Army had green uniforms so people shouted at them "Greens go!" so that they went away from our country and then it evolved to "Gringo"
Here in Mexico and in other Latin American countries we are taught in school that there are 5 continenets: America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. So we mostly don't like US-citizens being refered as "American" because we all consider ourselves from the continent.
@Forgotten User I know, but in spanish no one calls MExico that way and USA in spanish is literlly "Estados Unidos". If you say "América" in an spanish speaking country most likely they'll think you are talking about the continent.
I'm from Honduras and we were taught in school that the land mass from Alaska to Argentina is known as America. These are the continents: America Europe Asia Africa Oceania Antarctica Now America is subdivided into three regions: North America Middle America (Central America and the Caribbean) South America
@@everettatwater2939 There are many ways to define continents. Look at Europe, which depends on a historical and cultural definition to be a continent apart from Asia, given that there are no different landmasses based on tectonic plates. The name "America", as a single continent, obviously precedes both logically and historically the subdivision into "North" and "South" (mostly based on the tectonic plates division of landmasses) , but also transcendes it, as in the terms "Native Americans", "Latin America" or "Organization of American States", which encompasses peoples, countries and States from both North and South Americas.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b On the contrary. The division into "North" and "South" America is based mostly on tectonic plates landmasses (althought not 100% accurate, i.e. Caribbean plate, etc), while considering them a single continent is mostly a Historical approach (as in New World). In the same way, we differentiate Europe from Asia from a Historical/cultural perspective. If based on lamdmasses and tectonics, we should consider most (of not all) of Eurasia a a single continent. It is all in the definitions.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b The difference between Europe and Asia is a matter culture and geography. The Ural Mountains separate Europe and Asia while America is one uninterrupted land mass.
I'm from Costa Rica, we call the people from the US estadounidense and the country Estados Unidos. Americano for us, means someone from the American continent.
In Polish, every single country has 2 demonyms. 1 an adjective for things from the country using the -ski (masculine)/-ska (feminine)/-skie (neuter) suffix (the gender depends of the gender of the noun following) which is the only thing in Polish that 100% regular and a noun for the people of the country which there's lots of suffixes used.
What stupidity. We, Europeans, told our family to go to America throughout the various streams of immigrants to the states. The name stuck as a nickname across all the ethnicities. So, if the Americans want to call themselves Americans, too, then I'll continue to call them Americans. Don't like it? Tough luck.
Mexican here. The term estadounidense/norteamericano is only used in a formal way or when comunicating in a written form. Un any other scenario the common demonym is "gringo/gringa" (male/female). Fun fact: a "gringa" is also the name of a popular street food here in México.
My proposal as a human from the United States of America is that people and thngs from my country be called "Murican." Some people already say " 'Murican" with a thick Southern accent as a joke, but my proposal is to just say it naturally in your normal accent. Honestly, it's close enough that we could easily make the switch, and it's a word we already identify with. Plus it's different enough that in context there's no confusing if you mean either of the continents or the country.
@@chaost4544 exactly😂. Doesn’t matter though, these people can cry all they want but it isn’t going to change the fact that most of the world will think of people from the USA when they hear the word American. That’s why they always calling Americans stupid and shit, they see people from the USA as American.
I think it comes down to how a group describes itself, not how others identify them. Ukraine decided to not be The Ukraine. The peoples decide what they're called. What Americans are called in other languages doesn't matter much. Japanese might say amerika-jin while Koreans would say mikuk-in. But in English it would be rude to call me anything other than what I choose to be called.
THANK YOU I don't care what language you speak if you are in someone else's country speaking their language they should refer to the people of that country in their native language period
@@CaptainAmerica001 people can call themselves whatever they want. It only gets confusing if you choose a name that someone popular already uses. I might ask friends and family to call me Keanu Reeves, but somebody quite famous already uses that name and it could become confusing.
@@CaptainAmerica001 There is no continent of america there is North America in South America they are 2 separate continents that are not related to one another.
Puertorican here, for pretty much my entire life living in the island ive seen that almost everyone here refers to americans as either "Americano" or just good ol' "Gringo". Norte Americano is usually used to only refer to Canada & USA, though Estadounidense is also widely used, I'd say Americano or Gringo is a lot more commonly used.
I’d prefer Virginian or Appalachian honestly, but I’m indeed American. Claiming I’m form the US isn’t very descriptive either, when your also such and someone doesn’t need to think hard to find a difference between the average red neck and a Puertorican.
Well, too bad that only North American refers to the USA and Canada when Mexico also belongs within North America... Greenland is also North American but due to the fact that they are not completely an independent country, it could be said that they continue to consider themselves "Europeans" for the Kingdom of Denmark, but the day they become completely independent from Denmark, will the USA consider Greenland as North American?
@@daviddorsett7550 No, 'American' is not a citizenship. An American is from the Continent of America. Puerto Rico is not on the Continent of America. Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean & is on the Caribbean Plate. Tectonic plates are not continents.
8:02 , From Perú here, I feel like "Estadounidense" is the most used, because we're also Americans, Latinamericans specifically (which, by the way, I think is a term that some spanish people might have a problem with maybe?)
In Spain, we commonly use “Estadounidense” (and some people also use “Norteamericano/a”) to refer to US Nationals, and “Americano/a” to refer to any person from any country of the Americas. Also, we generally consider North America and South America as a single continent (conveniently named “América”)
Total !!! Bueno en venezuela es igual , nosotros sabemos q el contienente es America, asi como tu al ser español del continente europeo ( series europeo ) yo seria americana , el problemq es qie los gringos , como que no entienden la logica y solo agarran lo qie le.dijeron a los 5 años
@@axxel_o Lo que estás explicando (que es mayoritariamente cierto, por desgracia), es una ideología que el gobierno de Estados Unidos trató de imponer en todo el continente americano, para forzar la emancipación de territorios coloniales europeos, y ver si podían colonizarlos EEUU. Se llamó la “doctrina Monroe” (por el entonces presidente de EEUU), y vio cómo Cuba, Puerto Rico y la zona del Canal de Panamá se convirtieron en territorios vinculados a EEUU. Es como si decidieran apropiarse de todo un continente, sólo porque llevan el nombre del continente en el de su país. Por eso creo que se hacen llamar “americanos”, y como el nivel de cultura general en dicho país está, de media, por debajo de la media europea, no hay forma de convencerles de lo contrario a lo que ellos creen. Es mejor no perder el tiempo con esas cosas. Debo, no obstante, reconocer que hay casos concretos de estadounidenses que son bastante cultos en el aspecto. Es probable que, si el autor de este vídeo tuviese el mismo nivel de cultura general que la mayoría de los estadounidenses, ni se hubiera planteado dicha cuestión. América es un continente único; Venezuela es un país maravilloso, y su gente es excepcional. Saludos desde España.
As a Colombian the Demonyn that we use on a daily basis is "Estado Unidense" being thought from an early age from culture and school. "Americano" has a sense of distaste towards US Citizens generally speaking. It's used more as a negative connotation or with a bit of mockery. Ourselves being called Americans is definitely a no, no as well. for most of the population I would say.
Exacto! By the way; did you know we wanted to claim Columbia but it was already taken lol. To see how salty the Founders were after the Civil War they said let's make our own 'Columbia' hence we have DC aka Washington.
@@ErikPT Washington State was also going to be name Colombia, but didn’t want to be confused with (District of) Colombia & changed its name. In an alternate timeline we could have had an Colombian Colombian moving from Colombia to Colombia.
Toanswer that question ( 7:56 ), in hispanicamerica (all spanish speaker latinamerican countries) we do use "Estadounidense" in reference of a person from the US. Tho this is the correct word for us, the really common word for them is "Gringo" that may come from greek, for when (I don't if Spanish or Hispanicamerican) didn't know what language is someone spoken it's said that it's talking greek, griego in spanish (Griego -> Gringo)...I'm from Chile and I've never heard that in my life...in my case if I don't know what language is someone talking I say "gringo", not "griego"...(although what I really say is "ke weá", but...yeah...
This isn’t an issue for us American. It’s more of any issue for Latin America cuz they are taught that they are also Americans and we are “estadounidenses.” We are not going to stop calling ourselves American because others don’t like it 😂
An American is from the Continent of America. 'American' is not a nationality or a citizenship!👍 This is ONLY an issue for U.S. Citizens, they don't like other Americans from the Continent of America 🌎 to be called Americans. They think they're the only ones 😏
Brazilian here. When we talk about people born in the US, we use the word "americano" (male) or "americana" (female) most often, although "estadunidense" is also widely used, but less frequently. One may think that, because the word "americano" is used, we also use the term "América" to refer to the USA, but, oddly enough, that's not true at all. "América" refers to the continent made up of North America+South America, and we never use this word to refer to the USA, instead we say "Estados Unidos" or the abbreviation EUA. It's like using the word "magyar" to talk about people from Hungary but not calling the country "magyaria" or something like that
Here comes yet another video trying to take our name for us. While it may be proper in Spanish to refer to anyone from North or South America as "American", in the English language "American" means a citizen of the United States of America. In our way of thinking, I am American but someone from Mexico or Argentina or Peru is not. I'm sorry if that upsets some people but that's the way it is. You don't get to decide what we call ourselves. American means a citizen of the USA. Deal with it.
@Vrealita Indegenous or Native people or tribes, if need to be specific of the Americas, of South America, Canada, or however specific you need be. See, the idea of America related to more than one thing isn't an issue
@@kaiceecrane3884 I can understand that when referring to modern populations of native ancestry and/ or culture. But, do you use "Native Americans" also in a historical sense, referring to the inhabitants of modern USA territory and not to the continent/s? Sounds weird to me. We don't project modern nationalities upon precolumbian populations when talking in a historical sense.
@@whosaidthat84yeah, I don’t know where the idea of “gringo” being used only for white people or even as a racial slur came from, it may be because depending on context it can have a derogatory meaning, which may make some people associate it with words like the n-word, yellow, or whitey, which are used exclusively to describe someone for their race, and not their nationality.
I'm from Venezuela and here nobody says "american" (or "americano" in spanish) to refer to the people from USA, the only place i see this term to refer to the USA people is on internet when i see someone speaking english, we say "estadounidense" translated to english I THINK it's "United Statian/Unitedstatian" or something like that, we also use "gringo" but this is a more informal way and some gringos may get offended by this although we don't say it as an offensive way
Well, Venezuelans are continentallity and regionally Americans, due to the fact that the country is in South America, and part of Latin and Hispanic America.
In American English, the standard and correct terminology is: a) "America" is short for the United States of America. Ergo, yes, "America" IS a country. Just as Mexico is a country, though its official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Hence, obliging Americans to called themselves United Statesans or something similarly ridiculous solves nothing, as Mexicans, by this absurd logic, are also United Statesans. b) North America and South America together are referred to as "the Americas", not "America". (I don't know if the creator of this video is influenced by the fact that in the Spanish-speaking world the two continents are considered one, which is perfectly legitimate, but it's just not the case in the Anglo-saxon system. Both are valid, but it seems he's applying the Spanish-world criterion, which makes no sense) Thus, using "America" to refer to the Americas is just confusing and pointless. If one has some complex because they resent the USA for some reason, that's their business, but not a valid reason to employ terminology that is simply confusing.
In "American English", 'America', in the *official* name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲, has represented a continent for the past 247yrs, even 269yrs before the USA 🇺🇲 existed. The Continent of America has not changed name in 516yrs. According to your logic, Mexico is a continent but if America is a country, then *that* logic says Africa is a country. Same exact logic. Dude, your logic is *extremely* flawed!!! Now your logic says the United States of America USA 🇺🇲 *should* be named the United States of North America & South America (USNASA) or the United States of the Américas, but your logic is flawed. As you can clearly *see & read,* in "American English", in the *official* name of the United States of 👉America👈, there's a continent named America, *IN "AMERICAN ENGLISH"!!!* Don't know how "American English" speakers confuse the USA 🇺🇲 for a continent! America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America, in any language!
@@CaptainAmerica001 Wow. Youve really created a confusing problem where none existed before. America is short for the USA. Period. Its not confusing, its not problematic, its not complex. / The continents are North America and South America. Again, not complex or confusing. / The notion that Americans should not be called Americans is just absurd. Creating a problem where there is none
@@justinpeterson2105 Again; 'America', in the *official* name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲, has represented a continent for the past 247yrs, even 269yrs before the USA 🇺🇲 existed. The Continent of America has not changed name in 516yrs. How do people confuse the USA 🇺🇲 for a continent, does it resemble one? What *is* confusing is why you don't understand "American English" when the Founding Fathers & authors spelled it out for you, I, & passersby! The United States of America USA 🇺🇲 *simply* means *STATES,* that are *UNITED,* on the Continent *👉OF👈* *AMÉRICA!* The notion that people from the Continent of America should not be called Americans is just absurd. Creating a problem where there is none!
@@CaptainAmerica001 Names change their meaning. Yes. America used to refer to the entire New World. It no longer does. It now refers to a country: the USA. The continents are North America and South America. Get over it already.
@@justinpeterson2105 Countries change their names *officially,* not by indoctrination or appropriation! Again; In "American English", 'America', in the *official* name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲, has represented a continent for the past 247yrs, even 269yrs before the USA 🇺🇲 existed. The Continent of America has not changed name in 516yrs. According to your logic, Mexico is a continent but if America is a country, then *that* logic says Africa is a country. Same exact logic. Dude, your logic is *extremely* flawed!!! Now your logic says the United States of America USA 🇺🇲 *should* be named the United States of North America & South America (USNASA) or the United States of the Américas, but your logic is flawed. As you can clearly *see & read,* in "American English", in the *official* name of the United States of 👉America👈, there's a continent named America, *IN "AMERICAN ENGLISH"!!!* Don't know how "American English" speakers confuse the USA 🇺🇲 for a continent! America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America, in any language! Accept the truth & get over it 😎
For my Spanish friends here who learned English and are now offended by the word, please recognize that this video is ridiculous. In the English language, “American” has come to mean a citizen of the USA. It does not have the same meaning in Spanish. This video was made intentionally for you to keep perpetuating this weird “issue”.
Or people living in the Americas can be called North American or South Anerican, based on the continent they are from.Also, Mexico's full name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. (United Mexican States) and at one time Colombia was Estados Unidos de Colobia. So the USA is not the only country with United States in its name.
Don't be ridiculous, in Spanish America is one continent, in English there are two, plus Mexico is a very personal adjective, no one on the continent calls themselves that. South America, Central America, North America, The Americas, Latin America, Anglo America, Franco-America. All those names have something in common and it is the word america.
@@sergiojose2000 Absolutely. In Spanish it is viewed as one continent. This is a discussion about how Americans refer to themselves in English. When I am speaking Spanish, I will follow Spanish conventions. It's pretty ethnocentric to demand almost every other language on the planet stops calling Americans American (or some variation there of) just because your language uses it as a catch all for anyone living in any of The Americas.
You come up with the solution halfway through the video. People from South Africa are South African… so people from North America are North American…… it’s just reversed
As a native Spanish speaker, coming from Latam, I use "Estadounidense" for them, and correct everyone who uses "Americano", for the reasons you just explained. I used to say "Norteamericano" too, but that *should* include Canadians and Mexicans, as they're part of North America. In English, I've had it harder, and decided to set for just "USA People", which yes, sounds weird and harder to say, but the de-facto demonym doesn't represent what it should, to the point where I get the feeling that some people doesn't even remember that America is a continent. I gotta say, "US-ians" is quite an interesting term, I may adopt it.
@@modmaker7617 I know, but their football national went all the way with Holland, so it stuck in our heads for so many time, that this whole country wan Holland
@@korelamerikano It looks like now the national football team is called the Netherlands not Holland. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team
Great video! It's pretty obnoxious, however, when people dont respect the name we call ourselves, especially since no other country has "america" in their name. Even South African flows pretty well. United States American sounds dreadful.
Plus if you’re using the seven continent model then “American” isn’t stealing the name from another continent. People from Canada, Mexico, Panama etc, are North American. And people from Brazil, Argentina, Chile etc are South American.
I’m from The United States of America 🇺🇸. @NameExplain I politely disagree with you when you say that Americans (USA) shouldn’t be called Americans. People from North America are North Americans not just Americans. The people from South America are South Americans not just Americans. The term Yankee/ Yank/Yanks only referrers to Americans who live in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Technically they shouldn’t even be called American since current day Americans are just British people while the native Americans are the ones who should be referred to as such
@@pokegod99 yep, where do those people draw the line when they bring up that point. Do they also consider Ukraine as part of Russia since it used to be Russia territory. Do they consider parts of Russia as parts of China since it used to be China territory. That’s the problem with those people, they cherry pick which land belongs to who based off who they like and dislike.
I am also from the United States 🇺🇲 👉OF👈 America 🌎. There's nothing wrong with calling us Americans. An American is from the Continent of America. The issue arises when folks say we're the only ones or it's a citizenship/nationality.
I wouldn’t call a Delawarean a yankee. In my experience, they would take offense. They generally consider themselves mid-Atlantic, though many in southern Delaware consider themselves southern.
America is a continent, not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' is not a nationality or a citizenship, officially. Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of America.
There's actually another North American country who's official name includes the United States, the United Mexican States. Americans aren't Canadians or Mexicans. The term just works historically. Unless you're from New England, you aren't a Yankee. And frankly, I only consider WASP and Scots Irish New Englander is to be Yankees.
And yet here in the USA we typically refer to ourselves bu the state which we hail from. I.E. Some one from Florida will often refer to themselves as a Floridian, someone from Washington State will refer to themselves as a Washingtonian, someone from Hawaii would refer to themselves as Hawaiian and if they where of Polynesian decent they would be Native Hawaiian, ect. But probably the best example of this is Puerto Rico. They are citizens of the USA because they are a territory. But they more often then not call themselves Puerto Rican.
Once I started learning Spanish and realised how in Spanish they refer to all people from The Americas as Americano and people from the United States as estadounidense I changed what I call people from the United States. I just they are from the United States or they are North American (which also include Canadians and Mexicans) now. I also stopped calling the country just as America as well and will say the United States or the USA now. If someone from the United States gets offended by me doing this then that’s their problem.
LFMAO Y'all realising the obvious. America it's a name used for the new world. Every European nation added to its own colonies. Spanish America British America French America Portuguese America Dutch America etc When we got independence, we used new names except for the US, the only ones whe just removed the word {British} in British America
As a Mexican, I use "Estadounidense" in more formal settings. I don't use Yankee because I am not used to the term and I always thought it was a bit derogative. I don't like calling them "Americanos" but I do call them "Americans" when I speak in english. "Estadounidense" is mostly used by people who don't interact with the english-speaking part of the world (in my experience at least), but it is a mouthfull. I honestly just say "los de estados unidos" (the ones from the US). I do say gringo, but never to a gringo. I realized that I use that word when I am complaining about the US. I don't know. Americs sounds pretty cool to me, but I am sure thats already taken.
Yankee is used for Northern Eastern America during the American Civil War, South states from Confederacy in the Civil used Dixie for themselves and find the term Yankee derogatory.
Many people from the USA dislike being called Yankee or Gringo/gringa. When we are not around say anything you want, but it will irritate some people from the USA to call them one of these terms.
That is because in English “America” refers to a country not a continent. What Latin Americans refer to as “America” are two separate continents in English. This is only confusing if you don’t understand how things are in the English language. Honestly the only people who this upsets are die hard Latin Americans who don’t care about the cultures of either America or Canada and want to impose their system and definitions of things on us regardless of our national identities or language
Wrong. Maybe in the Spanish-speaking world and maybe in some other places Americans aren't called Americans but since we (America) were founded we've used American to call ourselves and as we became more powerful and interacted with other people more, they called us that too. We shouldn't change it because the Spanish-speaking world doesn't call Americans American, the vast-majority of the world uses Americans to identify people from the United States of America, not from Mexico or Ecuador.
Spanish here, the most common term is “americano” to refer to the US on the context, I know someone for the Brazil said the same thing, but I wanted to feel special Edit: my dialect is northern Mexican, around the chihuahua, and Guanajuato area, so that could be a form of influence, not to sure
@@angellara7040 You don't understand Mexicans if you think that. Most of the "Mexicans" in LA are actually gringos trying to differentiate themselves to maintain an identity. They're kind of their own thing. If a Mexican friend who I know well calls me a gringo, I 100% know it's not malicious. It's all about your relationship with the person. They call their own kids things like "fatty," "big head," etc and it's all love. They're way less thin skinned than we are.
@@badomen7199 Of course there's a Georgia south of Russia. There has to be more than one Georgia to cause the above mentioned confusion. As far as me not caring, you read your own bs into that. Though considering you could read my statement and assume I don't know about the much older Georgia, it looks like you can barely read at all.
@@donavonaddison4382 I don't think you got the point, the point is it's the exact same issue, there's really no moral difference between referring to yourself as Georgian or American, I get it if you don't care, but a lot of people don't even know the country exists, and I thought you may have been trying to say that referring to yourself via state was better than country, either way works. Btw wdym bs, is it bs that I don't care? What are you even saying is bs, I wrote a good amount.
@@badomen7199their is a moral difference, our language recognizes Georgia as country, we dont recognize anyone else in the world as americans besides ourselves, an american will never think of a Brazilian as American, because in english they aren't an american, they are a south american which is a continent. Your the culture imperialist here trying to force spanish/Portuguese culture onto americans because you dislike what they call themselves. In english only people from usa can be americans because only we exist in a place called America, their are no other americans only north and south americans.
bro I posted this a year ago, I have no recollection of the video or argument to refute anything you say, nor a desire to rewatch all of it. I have no idea why you decided to scroll what had to be many minutes through the comments, only to arrive on this year old comment, and decide to argue with it@@damackabet.4611
If you are a Canadian, Mexican, Caribbean, Central or South American citizen, you are still considered an American citizen because this is the Americas.
Grammatically, the word 'OF' (in United States of America) implies that they are NOT the whole America, but only the united states. So basically, the name of the country is 'US', the 'A' is representing something bigger they are part of. CHECK MATE! Edit: The American United States sounds lit 🔥
@Koawa_ Key word: 'OF', used as preposition. Czech Republic are two nouns modifying one another... Both with equal meaning and importance. Not even close logics bro .-.
The formal name of the country is "United States of America". It is not the United States. There’s no implied reference to anything external. The word "America" in United States of America is a reference to what the United States compose.
@@ScentlessSun Of course there is an external reference... The word America is referring to the continent they're in... Or you really think the US came with the name "America"? (which is even a Latin name)... The US does not 'compose' America, as you said. Take out the US from the map and America is still a place, wtf???
@ScentlessSun America can still exist without USA. USA just happened to be a country within America which is a continent. Why are people forgetting that the name was given by a Italian called Amerigo Vespucci??? You are using a Latin word
I'm Brazilian and I always say estadunidense, and I'm noticing that this term is getting more and more common, principally among the youngs. In English I use US American to specify someone from the USA, and I think that the Statian term is kinda nice.
@@alanetchetto8908 Sounds about right. There are way too many fragile, toxic egos here. There are way more serious issues in the world that they could channel that “passion” towards. Please take my word for it, not all of us are like that. 🤣
I'm an American living in the UK, and it's common for the Brits (another demonym under disputation) to refer to the USA as "the States". So "Statesian" makes some sense. But in Brazilian wouldn't it be more like "Statesiano"?
What demonym do you think people from the USA should use?
Fredonian/Stateser
Yank
US Americans
"American" when speaking to people IRL and "US-American" when speaking to people online that dislike the people of the USA being called by the former demonym.
How about 'mericans from United States of' Merica
Brazilian here, the terms "norte americano" and "estadunidense" are not necessarily the most widly used ones (at least not by a large margin), but they are common enough, and just "americano" (american) can be used just for the US or for the whole continent, depending on the context. "Estadunidense" seems to be the most common in academic literature, and "norte americano" can be ambiguous for also pontencially including Canada and Mexico
Norte Americano could also refer to Canadians, as Canada is also part of North America as well.
@@heronimousbrapson863 Yes, as well as Mexico, just like I said
Personally, I would use "American" in the broader sense of all "peoples of the Americas". It depends on context. But it shows that how people from other parts of the world view the term "American" is not necessarily the same in the rest of the Americas. But the reason for people of the US calling themselves "Americans" is historical, with the migrations an all, and thus it is reserved to them, at least in the English language and languages of people from countries which they came. Originally, meant as "of/belonging to America". As "my American family members".
Exactly!
I often tell people that I don't live in America, I live in New York. 👍 🙂 🇺🇲
Mexican here, when it comes to referring to people from the US, what's most common is "gringo" for everyday talk, and estadounidense if you're writing something more formal. I've never seen "Norteamericano" be used because most Mexicans see The Americas as a single continent, and when we do use the term "North America", we mean the US, Canada, and Mexico
Don't be calling us Gringo's just because you're jealous you're whole family is trying to flee here
@@jakephreel "don't call us American just because your family is trying to flee here"
It's just a way to call someone from a certain country, more commonly the USA, if you're triggered by it then that's your problem
@@jakephreel it's just a word, just like your "Mexican"
Gringo is probably the most offensive term you could call many of us. I automatically assume your a racist and xenophobe. Because the people who use the term means it to be rude and derogatory. It is meant to bring down others. It's a term along with many others that needs to not be accepted.
@@baronvonjo1929 its a term to refer to a person, it's like saying that someone is immigrant, so that word is offensive too, and you're the one being racist because apparently saying gringo is racist, assuming that Americans are only a single race, so you're excluding people like black people for example from term American, the people who use the term mean it in a normal way, if you're offended by it then that's your own fault
As a Canadian, I have no issue calling people from the US as American. I actually find it more annoying when people from Europe “correct” me online about how Canadians are also Americans. This happens far more often than I would have expected.
As an American who loves my Canadian friends, I wouldn't want anyone (Europeans or otherwise) to call you Canadians Americans... I'd get offended if I were Canadian and that happened... haha! I did, however, pretend to be Canadian on my solo backpack trip to the UK back in the 90s. Heh.
@@EricaGamet I couldn't pass for being canadian my southern accent is too strong
@@roxxxydubois Just tell people you're from Southern Canada, eh.
@@EricaGamet So you hid your identity as an American? Not very patriotic or American of you.
@@AsukaLangleyS02 I don't feel the need to shout my patriotism from the rooftops, so I'm not worried. If you've ever traveled to other countries, you've seen how we are perceived. In fact, I was on a small, local tour in Scotland... and there was an American family there we all dubbed The Griswolds. Telling people I was Canadian didn't give them any stereotypical preconceived notions about me.
Hey there, Costa Rican here! "Estadounidense" is most definitely a very utilized word for calling a person from the USA. So much so that I don't really hear anyone saying "americano" in my daily life (though there probably is people). "Norteamericano" is also a fairly used word too. We also have "gringo" which can certainly be derogatory for some US people but over time we kinda forgot it was offensive and used it more in a more friendly manner jeje.
Personally, when I'm talking in English I jokingly like to call Americans "usasians", just think it's really goofy
Idk if gringo was bad before but it isn't now and if someone is triggered by it then it's their problem
@@mariotheundying they probably should find why we say these things and realize we dont say it just cause we hate them, but due to what they did to us
I’m Gringo, and I don’t mind. My parents immigrated here from Argentina, but I was born in the USA which makes me full blooded Gringo.
Que onda mae, happy to see another tico here :D
@@SpecterDiego idk bro i never find people with any ulterior implication of using the word other than just calling a usasian
When you think about it, the EU has a similar problem, where the adjective referring to something of the EU is "European", and yet they don't encompass the whole continent of Europe.
Good point. I think this is the most approximate example possible. With the exception made that the EU is potentially an all-encompassing pan-european ideal, while USA isn't
Interesting, although I think the issue is kind of more faint when it comes to conitnental classifications, as those are naturally arbitrary...
@@bennythetiger6052 The whole problem is the US using the name "America", even though they don't encompass the entire continent of America. It's essentially the same thing.
There are countries that are not in the EU, but that are nonetheless in Europe, even if you use the least generous definition of what "Europe" is, and that includes not recognizing Europe as a separate continent (as even then you would need to acknowledge that there is an area of the world called "Europe" in Eurasia or Afroeurasia).
if i wanted to refer to someone from specifically the EU and not the rest of Europe, i'd say something like "from the EU" instead of "European".
@@Vrealita Manifest Destiny would disagree with, "E.U. potentially represents all of Europe, while the USA doesn't." So would the Monroe doctrine or many interventions since. I do not often like many of the reasons my nation interferes with other Nations from the Americas, but saying the "American" name rooted in 1800's imperial ambitions wasn't rooted in ideals or intentional is be blind to a few dozen wars, (ignoring the hundreds of indian wars the usa fought.) Wars or War-like Actions include: Panamanian indipendance, Mexico 3 times, CIA coups for everyone, Canada twice, Spain twice, Cuba, several island nations, Haiti a number of times, the British Twice, and lots of other weird stuff. Also Billions and Billions in trade, aid, and investment are done yearly. I forget how much of USA trade is from the Americas, but i know that Mexico and Canada have remained in the top 3 or 4 trading partners for 30years usually beating China.
Love how you missed a 4th country with United in the name: México
You also have the United Republic of Tanzania
If you want to go to Union countries too then you also have the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and the Union of the Comoros
@überguy No. It's United States of Mexico.
@@ambiguoussarcasm No. It's "United Mexican States", which is not the same!
United States of Brazil too.
@@Vrealita it's "United Mexican States" when translated to English. but then, it would be "United American States" too. in Spanish, the name is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos". just some fun facts.
Also in italian we have "statunitense" as a demonym for americans. Typically used to avoid repetition of words or in more formal contexts (like on wikipedia).
Taking any advice from the country that allied with Hitler is laughably bad.
Yeah what I don't like about that though is its about the United States, which is just one government that has existed here, and will probably not exist here at some point in the future. America as a nation really begins in the 1600's, long before there is a United States.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 America as a nation didn't exist before America as a nation existed... what are you on about brother. Before there was a UNITED STATES OF AMERICA there was no such thing as an American Nation. At that point in time America only meant the continent of America, it only started meaning someone from the United States of America when the USA was created, and then the continents were divided in two in the English language to avoid confusion.
@@josephabellojr The United States is the country, not the nation. The nation begins in the 1600's. Or have you never heard of Plymouth Rock?
@@josephabellojr The United States is just a constitution, a "union of states". It's a sovereign law and that is it. The actual nation is America, and it has existed since the 1600's. In the case of France, the nation is France, which is ancient, while the country is the Fifth Republic, which has existed since 1958. Since they are coterminous, both America and the United States can be referred to as a nationstate. Nationstates are so common in today's world that we tend to sometimes use the words nation and country interchangeably, but a nation is a people whereas a country is a sovereign jurisdiction of law.
Fun fact: Here in Italy we call people from United States, "Statunistense", we even use use "Americano" but it's not as used es the other one
Spanish and Italian sister languages
I have never heard a Italian person call Americans that, most Italians I meet must refer to ppl from the US just simply American.
@@beasley1232 Many times, in order not to confuse them, they just say "American". But it doesn't mean they don't use other words
@@QuelloDelleIntro My Italian friend says she has never heard the term “Statunistense” before it sounds more like a you thing
in Afrikaans we have a particular conundrum regarding the demonyms. the name of the language literally translates as "from Africa", but the people who speak it have adopted it as their cultural identity especially with the term "Afrikaner" (Afrikaner refers to a single person, while also being a colloquial term referring to the descendants of the Dutch Settlers, ie Afrikaans-speaking white people). both terms almost exclusively refer to people who speak Afrikaans as their native language. however, the demonym for a African-born person (especially Black people) is also technically "Afrikaans". We apply the same rules to other countries that end in "-can", so "American" becomes "Amerikaans/Amerikaner" and "South Africa" becomes "Suid-Afrikaans/Afrikaner". in order to distinguish the Black Africans and non-Afrikaans speaking white people from the Afrikaans-speaking population, we refer to them as "Afrika-mense" (African people) and Engelse Suid-Afrikaners (English-speaking South Africans).
I remember hearing about that. lol
Enemy!!!
Ngikufisela usuku oluhle/Lekker dag
@@Ghibli_73 Nawe. Mntwana wakithi. 😁
Africa is a country & African is a citizenship if America is a country & American is a citizenship.
im from Argentina, and yeah, we call them "estadounidense" because its simple and concise enough, in almost slang ultra casual you can also hear "yanqui" with mostly no ill intent, mostly because most of us don't even really care(or know) about the etymology of the word, it has been adopted as a informal way to call someone from the united states
Being fair yankee lost its derogatory power immediately given the US Revolutionary Armies openly took the term either pride especially in the North. And the last ones to use it as an insult in anyway (disregarding sports/city rivalry stuff) were the slave holding losers.
Ok then imma call Hispanics/Latinos “b3aners” and “w3tbacks”
@@DORAisD34D Do it I dont care. We are not 'Hispanic', neither 'Latino'. We are Argentinians. The worst thing that you can call us is Nazi's, probably. Because you dont even know where our country is.
@@Uriel4-9-476 y’all get mad when we call y’all “Latinx”
I don't give a fuck, because im not a "Latinx people". Cope and seethe.
Back in the day, my Junior or senior year of high school we had a Venezuelan exchange student. One day he was telling us about an exchange he got into with a local when he called himself an American... The local refused to accept he was American. "Yeah, I'm from Venezuela!" "SEE! YOUR NOT AMERICAN!" "yes I am... Venezuela is in South America, so technically"
Totally that is right and is geography correct and logic
What high school was that?
He’s not American
I'm American and live in Honduras (Central America). Estadounidense is like the right way to go but people just call us "gringo" (male) and "gringa" (female) most times. Whenever I want to say I'm American without using "American", I go with "I'm from the United States" or "I'm from the US", etc.
Yet one more reason for us Texans to keep identifying as "Texans" internationally!
@@randlebrowne2048 Yes! I'm from Florida and that's also a good way to identify. The thing is that some states are recognized internationally more than others like New York, California, Texas, Florida. If I said I'm from Idaho, most people outside of the US would have no idea what that is lol.
@@juandhiego who wouldn't know Idaho? i mean im not from the US so
@@Wahrheit_ Believe me, there's lots of people who can't even name a single state lol
@@juandhiego lmao, I guess i know because i like to study all that stuff 🤓👍
I don't see the big deal. Foreigners call people from the USA "Americans" all the time as a specific national identity. They don't seem to have a problem with it. It's shorthand for United States of America. "America" is part of our name. Everyone knows that. It's not about excluding Mexicans, Brazilians, Canadians, etc. It's just simply an abbreviated way of referring to people of the United States of America. Frankly, I think this whole subject is a nitpicky way to find yet another thing about the USA to complain about because they think it's trendy and makes them sound virtuous.
@@levarmitchell3962 Unironically it’s people who hate America trying to deconstruct its national identity so foreigners can be imported easier
As someone who's father is from Indiana and lived there for 5 years, Hoosier is pronounced "who-zher" not "who-zi-er".
As a Hoosiers, I back this
I guess you really know Hoosier daddy!
...Sorry, I had to.
Zh like the french j?
@@omargerardolopez3294 Exactly, like in "Je suis un Hoosier".
@@omargerardolopez3294 yes
In English though, the demonym "American" has been used since the colonial period, before it was ever used to apply to anybody else. There's no reason to change it now just because somebody has an axe to grind.
In Spanish language, also in colonial times Spanish Americans from the whole continent were called "Americanos", so as to differentiate them from "European (Peninsular)" Spanish people.
So the "American" identity also predates the Independence of Hispanic American nations and it is a unique identifier that give us the sense of a common belonging, as well as a shared history and struggles.
@@Vrealita That's really interesting! Thanks for sharing.
@@Vrealita That's nice, but we're speaking English, not Spanish. We're not americanos. We're Americans. They are cognates, but not the same word.
I think the core of the issue is that unlike many other regions in the Americas, the US didn't have a "secondary name" by the British during the colonial period as the region was just known as "the Thirteen Colonies". So with no other pan-state demonym that wouldn't upset parts of the country, "American" just became the defacto term.
@@TheKeksadler
It’s not wrong either. If anyone from the Americas is “American” that includes people from the US, by anyone’s logic.
It’s quite interesting that we sometimes use the term US to refer to something belonging to the USA instead of American for a lot of things. Such as US Dollars, US Border, US Soil, US Senate, US Person, US President, etc. In fact I think that is the official term that is used by the government, not “American”.
In English it's American. Words can mean more than one thing. One can say American and mean someone from either continent in the Americas as well as someone from the USA. I don't understand why that is an issue. Let's say someone is from Honduras and goes to Paris, let's say. If asked what their nationality is why would they identify with their continent and not their nation? It makes zero sense. I respect that in SPANISH we are called Estadunidenses, but in English it's American. I would prefer to identify with my city or state than use a term like Usonian or United Statesian.
it has to do with the anti usism of people bitching about the demonym of the us is the name of an entire continent
This. If I'm in Mexico or Peru, I say estadounidense because I was taught that's the proper term. All countries or languages have the opportunity to create their own words for things - so I don't understand why it would be unfair for English to use the work American to refer to the people or things from the USA. We have different words/terms when referring to the region of The Americas - North American, South American, New World, Pan American... so there isn't any confusion. Also worth noting that for most of Latin America, they consider North and South America to be one continent and not two - so that probably adds to the confusion. Same as how some nations consider Europe and Asia to be one continent and not two, but it isn't unfair that English people don't call themselves Eurasian.
More simple is they are just europeans in america and real Americans are the Natives. we call europeans in any of the Americas eruo-americans if they are not Native.
So why people still use these phrases?: “he is African”, “she is an European girl”, “they love Asian food”. You have not understood how big is this issue regarding the identity for those living in The Americas.
@@geografisica When has anyone, when speaking English, been confused by someone saying "she's an American girl"? In English, no one would ever say something is American and mean it came from Canada or Argentina or anywhere other than the US. And, in English, North America and South America are separate continents - so you would refer to things as North or South American if you were referring to the whole continent. It's pretty rare to need to speak about the entirety of The Americas - it's usually only done politically or historically and there are terms specific to that in English. So I'm not sure what the issue is.
As a Costarican I refuse to Call unitedstatians "americans" and I have never meet a Costa Rican who calls then "americano" we only call them "Estadunidense" or "Gringo"
In spanish “estadounidense” is more common than “americano”. Also in french is common the term “états-unien” than “américain”. In South America it can be rude to use the term “americano” when referring only to the USA. There’s a song by Residente called “This is not America” who refers to this polemic from a latin perspective.
Same here in Italy where the official endonym for people or things from The US is "Statunitense".
Sounds like a cope from trashy South America
you're a north American and an American
@@everettatwater2939 yeah right, he's from Florida
@@everettatwater2939 Dude the Américas is a single continent, all the latin world knows the new world as America.
No need to change. North American, South American. I would never use the word American to describe someone from North or South America any more than I would use the word Eurasian to describe someone from Europe or Asia.
America is a continent.
An American is from the Continent of America.
Hopefully that'll help you out!
@@CaptainAmerica001 America is not a continent. North America is a continent and South America is a continent. There is no continent called America.
@@James_Dolensky
America is a continent.
If not, then what is America?
What does 'America' represent in the official name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲?
@@CaptainAmerica001 America is the combination of 2 continents. There is no need for a denonym for 2 continents.
@@James_Dolensky
America is a continent.
Hence the 'America' in the official name of the USA 🇺🇲
Correct, no need for cardinal points to tell me where countries are in America.
An American is from the Continent of America!
Here in Peru we call them estadunidense mostly. Also Norteamericano but I think that’s most used in Central American countries and Mexico .
@@everettatwater2939 mmm yeah so
@@everettatwater2939 si y ??
En Ecuador también! 😀🤚🇪🇨
@@Adrian4239 E=Eso
C=C Tilin
Nope most prople in mexico call them "Gringos" Not North Americans because Mexico is also part of North America
Here in Argentina is more common to hear "Yanqui" (Yankee) in casual conversation with "Estadounidense" and "Norteamericano" being more formal, and many people do consider it incorrect or even a bit offensive to refer to an US citizen as "Americano".
The one we definitely don't use is "Gringo" since here "gringo" usually means blonde or it can even refer to someone of German descent.
Yankee is only for people from New England. What a stupid suggestion.
Also, northern Italian descent in the case of Gringo
@@AsukaLangleyS02 I wasn't suggesting it, I was just pointing out a thing that happens, it's not like neither you or me can change how the dialect works. It is what it is, and it isn't that rare for a name that originally only applied to one region to later get generalized to a whole country.
I’m Argentinian and my friends & I def use gringo jsjs
Yankee refers to people from the north east coast using it to define any American is kinda wrong as you wouldn’t call everyone a midwesterner or a Californian
American here, I can confirm that we are in fact Americans
Snaciremas
Ya hell ya
@user-mx8ne3bu9nyeah our continent
@Marty Yo No, North America is a continent and South America as a continent not the entire thing
@@AnimatedStuffCountryballs North west Easy south there's still the same América 🤡 Is just the a Us concept to exclude people From others countrys
That concept Is only used in US but un the most countrys of América like latam use the concept of one América and the other a sub divition not important
Is just like a votation 👈🤡
I remember for a while, there was a small group of people calling us the United Statesians but anyone who used that term usually were very smug about it.
Because it's ridiculous stright up bloody awful.
I'll just stick with American.
At least it's less confusing than the term "American."
America is a continent, not a country.
An American is from the Continent of America.
@@justoad I usually just say "US American" because United Statesian doesn't roll off the tongue nicely and it's kind of smug.
In the rare event that you need to refer to someone or something pertaining to the Americas as a whole--and not specifically the U.S., North America, or South America--couldn't you simply say "pan-American" to avoid any confusion?
very true sir
I usually just say “The Americas” or “The New World”
I say the Americas
pan-american would imply that it comes from every part of America, so it wouldn't be used in some context
Pan American is still confusing, because it has “American” on it, and the rest of the World would still think is just the US.
Here a Mexican, in the schools of Mexico (and from what I can see, in all Hispanic America), they refer to the "Americas" in a single continent.
"North America" and "South America" are subcontinents within the continent of America (Central America would be considered a "region" within North America, but it is not considered another subcontinent of America).
And indeed, we refer to people from the US as "Gringos" informally or "Estado unidense" as formal talk.
I used to call people from the US "Americans", but one day I had to argue with a Gringo who presumed to be from "America" and I from "Beans Land" (Mexico) (I really did not give importance to his discrimination). Anyway, I told him that I am also from America and the guy just made fun of it and then I realized that in the US they teach geography in a totally different way than the rest of the American continent.
We cannot consider "North American" either because just like the US, there is also Canada and Mexico and it can only be used when we talk to people from South America, Europe, etc. to locate them from which part of the American continent we are foreigners.
As an American it is common to hear us refer to our friends and some family as asshole so I use that. 😂😂
Weirdly, I think that's the proposed one we'd be most likely to go for.
Lol
@@MuriKakari Agreed. Lol
Chilean Southerner here, we use the term "estadounidense" as the default american denonym, though "north american" is mostly used in terms of canda and US as a general cultural area as you might've guessed. Calling someone "americano" might give you some seconds of confused looks, people here dont associate "americano/a" with being from the US since its such a borad term, so it might take some time for them to figure it out. Even when we have a whole section of clothing called "Ropa Americana" (american clothing) most people struggle to make the connection, including myself for most of my life. Im not sure how things are in the big cities, since i live in a pretty rural area.
Yankee is mostly used by older folk (anyone above 35) to refer to anyone coming from the states though its usage in recent times has declined. Gringo has been and continues to be the generally used term for any european-looking foreigner at least here, from italian, german, canadian to brittish anyone with fair skin that doesnt speak your tounge can be considered a gringo.
"Gringo" is a racial slur. How about we start calling people from Latin American countries "B3aners” or “w3tbacks”
@@DORAisD34D Gringo, cope harder.
@@Uriel4-9-476 so gringo means foreigner? Then why is it used by Hispanics IN THE US to refer to white Americans or Hispanics who are not culturally Hispanic?
@@DORAisD34D I don't care what they do. In my country we don't use that stupid ass mexican word. It's funny because you get angry by it. I would use yankees for your people
People always find something to be offended by. The people in the colonies in what is now the United States were called Americans for 400 years, now it's a problem. So what do those offended want people from the United States of America to be called, United Statesians? Go bother someone else with your problem.
Surprise!!! The people in the Spanish colonies in the Americas were also called "Americans"!!!
Petty envy. They hate us, and want to strip us of our nationality based on some myth that they are "confused" and or "offended" by a moniker they pretend was "stolen" from them despite the fact that we were a nation back when they were all SPANIARD subjects of the crown of Spain.
They can all seriously go sod off.
@@Vrealita Oh good lord, if that is the biggest problem in your life., good for you. Nobody cares.
@@okjoe5561 ok, joe
Well said! You tell'em! OH NO! The Americans call themselves.......AMERICANS!!!!!
What a stupid thing to complain about. I'm with you all the way on this one.
I'm Brazilian and honestly I've heard this debate since I was a kid and I find it very cringy. Yes, America is the name of the continent and also the name of the country. I know about the "cultural" issue, but I think worrying about this is at least somewhat childish.
Here in Brazil we have states and cities sharing names and that's not a big issue; while there are still different words for someone born in the city of São Paulo (paulistano) and the state of São Paulo (paulista), most of the time people will know what place you're talking about just from the context.
I won't mind if a new official name for someone born in the US is crafted, but, if it's to be made from scratch, let's make something which at least resembles American (such as paulista/paulistano) or at least something completely original (for example: someone born in the city of Rio is carioca, someone born in the state of Rio is fluminense; none of these words resemble the Portuguese word Rio, which means river).
Statesian is just horrible. Kingdomish too. Some people in Brazil say "estadunidense" instead of "americano" and it sounds cocky and stupid. Either a nicer name is created or we stick to "American" and trust the context until a new name starts to occur naturally. That's not that big of an issue.
We're fine as we are. These people can seriously get over themselves.
There is no American Continent. North and South America are separate just like Asia and Europe are separate
@@user-id4oi3hl7b this is somewhat debatable, but yes, generally when someone here wishes to refer to themselves as from a certain continent, they go with South American, not just American. In fact, this "American pride" thing is highlighted only when this "Americans shouldn't be called Americans" "debate" comes up.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b More like how Eurasia and Africa are separate.
They are literally MORE separate than Europe is from Asia, where neither geography nor geology supports the distinction.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b Europe is not a continent, it's Eurasia.
Yankee is usually considered derogatory and that's why it isn't very popular. Out of all your suggestions, the only one I really liked was: fredonian. This is because the USA is big on our freedoms. Maybe it should catch on.
The other problem with the term “Yankee” is that it’s use is highly regional within the United States.
To paraphrase an old quote…
“To the world, a Yankee is someone from America.
To an American, a Yankee is someone from the north.
To someone from the north, a Yankee is someone from the northeast.
To someone from the northeast, a Yankee is someone from New England.
To someone from New England, a Yankee is someone from Vermont.
And to someone from Vermont, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.”
@@solarsailor1534 I was never called a Yankee until I moved to the Hell That Is Texas.
@@moonpie1971 lmaooo
@@solarsailor1534 I like pie for breakfast, but despite being a Connecticuter, I don't mind Yankee
If you ask someone from Central America, South America, Mexico, some European countries, Africa and Asian, they'll tell you that the US is not to much about freedom (((
Chilean here! In my experience, the most common demonyms for the USA are "estadounidense" and "gringo", for formal and informal contexts, respectively. Though gringo is also valid for any (non spanish) western european, as well as australians. In that sense, it is really a synonym for "white" or "colonizer", and may be used in a derogatory way. "North-american" is also used, often to prevent repeating "estadounidense" over and over (e.g. in the news).
"American" is also used, but it often leads to misunderstandings and I personally only use it when I'm talking about the continent. Using it as a demonym for the US may also have a slight political undertone, as it is mostly used in that way by "gringos" and right-wingers, and evokes the phrase "South America is the backyard of the US" and its ties to imperialism.
America is not a country or a nation. Since it's neither of those, 'American' is not a nationality, a citizenship or a term exclusively for/from the USA 🇺🇲.
Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of America 🌎👍
'Estadounidense' is a direct & accurate translation of the official citizenship of the United States of America 🇺🇲.
Estado(State)Unido(United)Ense(Inhabitant, resident, citizen of the region or area)
Estadounidense = U.S. Citizen
Officially 👍
"Gringo" is a racial slur. How about we start calling people from Latin American countries "B3aners” or “w3tbacks”
So is “colonizer”. The Europeans who colonized the Americas were colonizers, not white people today.
@@DORAisD34DBut you burger gobbler gringos already do so. Why play victim now?.
As far as calling Americans 'Yankees', there are actually large swaths of the country that'll get angry at you... Just like calling a Scotsman 'British'.
It's actually more akin to calling a Scotsman English. Southerners have been known to say Yankee about North Easterners in approximately the same contexts as an angry Scotsman saying Sassenach.
@@MuriKakari I'm talking as a West-Coast USA person who has been SCREAMED at by a Scotsman for calling her a Brit IRL, took her about a minute to look like she didn't want to attack me afterward. >.>
@@zephodb Fair. I've only seen them get that angry about English.
Colombian here, definetly the most used demonim is "Estadounidense" followed by "Gringo" and then perhaps "Americano" but yes we see it as an appropiaton of a continental identity.
Fun fact before Colombia became independent it was a debate in US congress to change the name of the usa to Colombia. but then Colombia got its independence and so the debate ended
I wanna press you on this: Why do you think there's a shared continental identity between people from the northern islands of Canada, through Mexico, down to Tierra del Fuego? Don't you think that's far too broad?
@@QuantumOfSilence and European, African or Asian aren't? Continental identities are very broad by definition, but they are there.
@@CarolinaMatamorosF Would you be offended if I called you a South American?
@@daviddorsett7550
No need for cardinal points to tell you where Colombia is in America.
Do you?
We, Brazilians use the term "Estadunidense" to refer to people from the USA. It's very commom!
Yeah but that just wont work in English grammatically or as a pleasant way to say it
@@stes_ Statian sounds nice to me
@@Omouja I think you might need help
no tf it ain't, literally everyone in brazil uses americano, if you pull a "estadunidense" you instantly give away your political position
the most used word in brazil is by far americano
The reason the term American stuck is cuz it was used before the US was even a thing. Back in the old colonial times we would have been called "British American" and after the revolution, obviously, the British part was dropped and people just kept using American. And there is still the issue that the US isn't the only country divided into states just like how Britannia isn't the only one with a Kingdom. Really the issue is there's no unique word to use for the US both within and outside the country that doesn't feel clunky or confusing to us, like for example Washingtonian could be confused with people from the state of Washington. at least Britain is the only place with the British name. If anything i think all we need is a simple modifier or alteration of American so the shift isn't so jarring and potentially confusing, it could be as simple as Americonian or something. the more familiar it is the less pushback there would be, large sudden language shift can be confusing and jarring and would upset anyone of any country
But the big issue is we would need to push against over 400 years of this term being used for the people living in what used to be the British American Colonies. That's an extremely uphill battle as there's so many documents and stories and media that refer to us as American it would take a very long time for it to fall out of use especially with those in the states who feel a very very very strong connection to the word American so i doubt any change will happen unless there is a miracle
Spanish America precedes 'British America'.
The region where Brasil is now was named America way before the USA🇺🇲 existed.
In conclusion, regardless of what continental model anyone follows, it doesn't automatically make América a country & 'American' a term only for the U.S.A.🇺🇲!👍
América definitely is not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' isn't a nationality, a citizenship, or a term exclusively for the U.S.A.🇺🇲
Anyone who uses these terms as such is due to selfishness, ignorance, conceitedness, laziness, stubbornness, indoctrination, and/or arrogance!
Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of América!👍
The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 has a simple, basic, generic, & descriptive name that's easy to comprehend & not misinterpret in any way or language!
The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 simply means we are STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent 'OF' AMÉRICA!
Not América of the United States!!!😏
It's what our Founding Fathers & authors meant, and still means!👍
Greetings from the U.S.A.🇺🇲, an American from the Continent of América!
English is my 1st language!
AMÉRICA 🌎🌎🌎 🇲🇽🇧🇷🇨🇴🇦🇷🇨🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪🇨🇱🇪🇨🇬🇹🇧🇴🇭🇹🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇳🇵🇾🇸🇻🇳🇮🇺🇲🇨🇷🇵🇦🇺🇾🇯🇲🇹🇹🇬🇾🇸🇷🇧🇿🇧🇸🇧🇧🇱🇨🇬🇩🇻🇨🇦🇬🇩🇲🇰🇳
United States of AMÉRICA 🇺🇲
An American is from the Continent of América.
We are ALL Americans!!!
I approve this message.👍
Hopefully that'll help!👍
@@CaptainAmerica001 I brought up British America as why Americans still get called American as, unlike Brazil, we never got a unique Demonym to refer to ourselves and the general term "American" stuck. I do agree that it has problems though and it would take a lot of work and effort to change due to how long this demonym has been getting used. And yes American is not a legally recognized nationality, it's a demonym, the nationality would be United States of America. And I know what United States of America means the issue is the demonym American, used to refer to the colonial people on the Central North American territory colonized by the British, predates the United States by a good few 100 years. And being Generic is the problem, the name USA is way too generic, other countries have United States in their name but then have a unique name like Mexico, Venezuela, and Columbia. The best solution I can see is to make a more unique demonym with what we already have: US-American or Americonian. Hell I'm even fine with using State names as demonyms the only issue is it requires everyone else to know the names of every state in the US and also Georgia could cause confusion for some.
@@Ace-theCat
How about using our official nationality or citizenship instead of the demonym that belongs to the Continent of America?
Don't we do that already for other countries?
@@CaptainAmerica001 No, we don't. How nationality is legally written is very different from how demonyms are used in conversation. Take Kiwi for example, it is a demonym but the legally recognized nationality is New Zealand, just the name of the country with no modification. While that is a good starting point it is the whole reason we're in this problem to begin with. most places that follow the name format "United _____ (of) ______" always ends up with the final term becoming their demonym like Mexico or historically Brazil, even the Emirates adopts the terminal word of their name as their demonym. The USA just has a really poorly thought out name. Also there is no Continent of America, there are called The Americas because there are two of them North America (From Greenland to Panama) and South America (From Venezuela to Chile) it is similar to how Europe and Asia exist on the same land mass but are separated into two distinct continents anyways, but we are still all American if we so choose to use the term.
United Statesian would sound ridiculous. So we are Americans. Before that we were Englishmen. We in the south definitely aren't Yankees! That's like calling us S.O.B's. In 1655 my 8th great grandfather arrived in Virginia from the Isle of Man.
Here in Brasil we normaly use "Americano", because we are so used to it, but recently, mainly younger people, have been using "Estadunidense" a lot more, making it easier to diferrenciate from the rest of the continent. In recent years our people have been praising the USA a lot less, making it inevitable to start using diffent denonyms for its people.
In México is usually Estadounidense, but is even more frequent to just say Gringo.
I’ve always wondered what does gringo translate to (or what word is the closest approximation) in English?
@@GeneralBulldog54 There is no exact translation.
I had heard that it comes from the word "griego" (Greek), and people used it to describe someone who spoke a foreign language because they thought they spoke Greek.
In Mexico, most people use it as a synonym for "estadounidense", although there are some people who also use it to refer to Canadians.
@@GeneralBulldog54 the origin story i grew up with was that during the battle of the alamo, mexican soldiers would sneak up and hear texans singing "where the *green grass grows*" and it came from ther. Gringo usually means WASP americans, sometimes black americans are called that too, but mostly to white americans
@@GeneralBulldog54 I understand that "Gringo" was used when referring to the people of the USA in an annoying tone, but in itself it never meant an insult to the people of the USA.
Currently, calling people from the US "Gringo" is more of an informal tone of calling them. But when you speak formally, we call them "Estadounidense."
Let me clear this up for you.
My mother is Dutch.
My father is Blackfoot.
My fiance is Jewish.
All of us are Americans, because we are from and/or live in the USA.
Even if I've never encountered anyone who wants to (both because of national pride and the often negative perception of the term internationally) someone from Canada or Paraguay is free to call themselves American if they want, because words frequently have multiple definitions.
I think you're the only one with a problem here.
Yeah and besides, I'd HATE to call someone a unitedstatesian XD
@@flannelsone1159 it just sound stupid. Europeans just trying to find stupid things to criticize America about.
I feel that you have a huge problem reading book of history and geography , really use your brain is free
No I’m afraid we aren’t “all American”. To be an American you must be a racial descendant of the European settlers
@@jdools4744 us blacks were here before most of you whites came on boats
In English, it's correct to use the term North Americans and South Americans to refer to which continent you're from. Americans are called that bc at the time, there were no other American nations. Dibs.
There are more than 30 American nations represented at the "Organization of American States (OAS)" (sic), which is headquartered in Washington DC!!!
@@Vrealita..... And?
@@UCYIBDa1 Oh, you edited, I see. Back then, before Independence, there was already a common "American" identity in Spanish American territories, as opposed to European "Peninsular" Spaniards. You did not invent the term "American".
@@Vrealita The only thing I did in the edit was add the word "dibs". Also, we're not speaking Spanish. And you're wrong. In 1780, we were the only ones on the planet called Americans. Everyone else would have been a "French-colonist" or whatever.
Dominican here (from the Spanish speaking country lol), we do use estadounidense a lot more than anything else if we're talking about formal speech, but in most cases anyone speaking English is called a gringo.
Chilean here. I use 'estadounidense' in spanish and 'US american' in english.
@Forgotten User Fair, but yeah a lot of people in South America say "estadounidense" and understand that as a North American.
@Forgotten User im not saying its right, its just the usual term for that
@Forgotten User yeah why not, north americans fit right in english, but if sometimes you are in a spanish country or talking in a spanish language for reasons xD, it gonna take more than you comment to change that becuase its the right term in that language , but hey i gonna do it, because you want be call like that, and im talking in english too, so here you got my north american fellow
@Forgotten User yep, USA is a country on North America
@Forgotten User but just throwing ideas here, if we combined the two maybe... we can call it... hear me out... Super america or Mega america or America plus, maybe thats taken (?) xD names are difficult xD
As an American, I can tell you, we Manifest Destiny'd that name into existence. We're not giving it back either.
In conclusion, regardless of what continental model anyone follows, it doesn't automatically make América a country & 'American' a term only for the U.S.A.🇺🇲!👍
América definitely is not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' isn't a nationality, a citizenship, or a term exclusively for the U.S.A.🇺🇲
Anyone who uses these terms as such is due to selfishness, ignorance, conceitedness, laziness, stubbornness, indoctrination, and/or arrogance!
Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of América!👍
The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 has a simple, basic, generic, & descriptive name that's easy to comprehend & not misinterpret in any way or language!
The United States of América/America (U.S.A.)🇺🇲 simply means we are STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent 'OF' AMÉRICA!
Not América of the United States!!!😏
It's what our Founding Fathers & authors meant, and still means!👍
Greetings from the U.S.A.🇺🇲, an American from the Continent of América!
English is my 1st language!
AMÉRICA 🌎🌎🌎 🇲🇽🇧🇷🇨🇴🇦🇷🇨🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪🇨🇱🇪🇨🇬🇹🇧🇴🇭🇹🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇳🇵🇾🇸🇻🇳🇮🇺🇲🇨🇷🇵🇦🇺🇾🇯🇲🇹🇹🇬🇾🇸🇷🇧🇿🇧🇸🇧🇧🇱🇨🇬🇩🇻🇨🇦🇬🇩🇲🇰🇳
United States of AMÉRICA 🇺🇲
An American is from the Continent of América.
We are ALL Americans!!!
I approve this message.👍
Hopefully that'll help!👍
@@CaptainAmerica001 I bet none of those countries would fight for the title....If they want to be Americans, fight us for it....Lets see who wins
@@noirekuroraigami2270
America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America.
No one from the Continent of America has to fight for the title of being American!
An intriguing video as always Name Explain.
Although, I'd like to try and expand on a point that you *surprisingly* *only* *briefly* touched, since most comments here are from the perspective of *Romance language* speakers.
*Not all non-English languages have the same translation for the United States of America* (except for the aforementioned Romance languages). Thus there is not a single solution that fits all.
I don't know how would you translate the "United States of America" in languages such as Japanese or Arabic, but I presume that they don't have an equivalent of United Statesian/Estadounidense/Estadunidense in their language. Or that they do, but it's rarely, if ever, used by their speakers for one reason or another. Thus calling them, say, "Amerika-jin" or "Amrikki" is easier.
Take Malay and Indonesian for example - our translation for the United States of America is Amerika Syarikat/Serikat (due to historical reasons), which literally means something like "American Union/Cooperation/Company" instead of a more correct term like "Negeri-negeri Bersatu Amerika" or "Kesatuan Negeri-negeri Amerika". And we call the people "Orang Amerika" - Americans.
Thus, if you take away the "Amerika" part of the name, we are left with Syarikat/Serikat, which means "Union/Cooperation/Company". Thus we would be calling them "Orang Syarikat/Serikat", which is equivalent to calling them Unioners/Cooperationers/Companiers. It just sounds so awkward and does not pronounce easily.
Sure, a term can be coined and it may work, but it'll take a very, very long time.
We could just take the easy way and call them Orang Barat (Westerners) or Orang Puteh or Bule (White People) like most of us are doing now, but that'll open up another can of worms I presume.
Actually Japanese do have an alternative for Amerika-jin: it's Beikoku-jin. Beikoku is the abbreviature of "Amerika Gasshuukoku" ("United States of America"). The "koku" comes evidently from "Gasshuukoku", while the "Bei" is the alternative reading for the kanji that means "rice", which happens to have also the reading "me" in "Amerika". This is because you can actually write "Amerika" in kanji, not only with katakana.
As a Costa Rican, when I'm speaking in Japanese, I always use "Beikoku" and "Beikoku-jin" to refer to USA and their people respectively. If a Japanese happen to ask me why I use that actually not so used word, I explain why I prefer it, without trying to start a fight, of course.
Gonna be hard to change that, especially since many people also add ethnicity demonym next to American, in regards to their identity, such as Japanese American, Polish American, and Mexican American.
We like being called American. We get its not really correct, but, its most commonly used and by far the most accepted term by people that live in the US. In english, anyway.
i still vibe with other languages not using a form of american
U sure?
@@julietab-ej6clI mean the other two common terms are southerner or Yankee in usa for their people or Texan which are both Texan and southern. Unless you want to call people from usa by their state/region name I suggest just using american as we all still agree we're americans at least for now.
In Italy there's also the term "statunitense ", although it's not often used colloquially, but it's the go-to demonim if you're a journalist, you write fiction or just want to talk more formally. As we speak casually, as it's been said in the video, we say americano / americana depending on grammatical gender. Fun fact, styles of coffee like Americano, cappuccino, espresso end with o because they refer to and agree in gender with "il Caffè ", that is masculine.
Well it’s better than being called United Statesian
French people: Sweats nervously.
@@lightningfletch5598 Umm... That's almost every Romance language.
What about United Stater?
How about Fredonian or Stateser?
What about the term "Vespucian", in tribute to "Amerigo Vespuci" from whom "America" is derived? That way, "Americans" would still be named after the continent, but cause less misunderstandings with Latin Americans and people outside the Americas.
The United Republic of Tanzania must feel left out here.
In Year 7 French we were always taught to say《 je suis anglais 》or《 je suis gallois 》so I didn't hear the word 'britannique' until Year 10 when we watched a video in class about a guy from... you guessed it, Northern Ireland!
My Dad is technically a "U.S. Ian" ever since he got naturalized citizenship.
In German you sometimes see "US-Amerikaner" and "US-amerikanisch" in order to make it absolutely clear they're not referring to some other America, but the scope for confusion is narrower than in say, Mexico or Brazil.
As a mexican I can confirm that "Estadounidense" is the correct and common demonyn used in spanish, but the most common colloquial one we use (at least in México) is "Gringo". The legend I've heard of how that demonyn originated states that the term comes from the 1848's US invation of Mexico where the US Army had green uniforms so people shouted at them "Greens go!" so that they went away from our country and then it evolved to "Gringo"
Here in Mexico and in other Latin American countries we are taught in school that there are 5 continenets: America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. So we mostly don't like US-citizens being refered as "American" because we all consider ourselves from the continent.
@Forgotten User Mexico is officialy called "United Mexican States", which is no the same.
LOL taking Spanish seriously
@Forgotten User I know, but in spanish no one calls MExico that way and USA in spanish is literlly "Estados Unidos". If you say "América" in an spanish speaking country most likely they'll think you are talking about the continent.
You're a north American not an American
Actually in Italian ''Americans" are also refered as "statunitensi" (from the United States) but is less common.
I'm from Honduras and we were taught in school that the land mass from Alaska to Argentina is known as America.
These are the continents:
America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Oceania
Antarctica
Now America is subdivided into three regions:
North America
Middle America (Central America and the Caribbean)
South America
You were tought wrong there are two continents south and north America
@@everettatwater2939 There are many ways to define continents. Look at Europe, which depends on a historical and cultural definition to be a continent apart from Asia, given that there are no different landmasses based on tectonic plates.
The name "America", as a single continent, obviously precedes both logically and historically the subdivision into "North" and "South" (mostly based on the tectonic plates division of landmasses) , but also transcendes it, as in the terms "Native Americans", "Latin America" or "Organization of American States", which encompasses peoples, countries and States from both North and South Americas.
If you consider the Americas as one continent why don’t you consider Afroeurasia as one continent?
@@user-id4oi3hl7b On the contrary.
The division into "North" and "South" America is based mostly on tectonic plates landmasses (althought not 100% accurate, i.e. Caribbean plate, etc), while considering them a single continent is mostly a Historical approach (as in New World).
In the same way, we differentiate Europe from Asia from a Historical/cultural perspective. If based on lamdmasses and tectonics, we should consider most (of not all) of Eurasia a a single continent.
It is all in the definitions.
@@user-id4oi3hl7b The difference between Europe and Asia is a matter culture and geography.
The Ural Mountains separate Europe and Asia while America is one uninterrupted land mass.
I'm from Costa Rica, we call the people from the US estadounidense and the country Estados Unidos. Americano for us, means someone from the American continent.
In Polish, every single country has 2 demonyms. 1 an adjective for things from the country using the -ski (masculine)/-ska (feminine)/-skie (neuter) suffix (the gender depends of the gender of the noun following) which is the only thing in Polish that 100% regular and a noun for the people of the country which there's lots of suffixes used.
What stupidity. We, Europeans, told our family to go to America throughout the various streams of immigrants to the states. The name stuck as a nickname across all the ethnicities. So, if the Americans want to call themselves Americans, too, then I'll continue to call them Americans. Don't like it? Tough luck.
America is a continent.
An American is from the Continent of America.
What's the issue?
@@CaptainAmerica001Good job on your spamming, bro.
@@SailorMoonFriends
More like educating 😁
Mexican here.
The term estadounidense/norteamericano is only used in a formal way or when comunicating in a written form. Un any other scenario the common demonym is "gringo/gringa" (male/female).
Fun fact: a "gringa" is also the name of a popular street food here in México.
"Gringo" is a racial slur. How about we start calling people from Latin American countries "B3aners” or “w3tbacks”
My proposal as a human from the United States of America is that people and thngs from my country be called "Murican." Some people already say " 'Murican" with a thick Southern accent as a joke, but my proposal is to just say it naturally in your normal accent. Honestly, it's close enough that we could easily make the switch, and it's a word we already identify with. Plus it's different enough that in context there's no confusing if you mean either of the continents or the country.
thats actually a good idea
It will be a long day in hell before I use backward Southern terminology to label what I am.
@@chaost4544 exactly😂. Doesn’t matter though, these people can cry all they want but it isn’t going to change the fact that most of the world will think of people from the USA when they hear the word American. That’s why they always calling Americans stupid and shit, they see people from the USA as American.
I think it comes down to how a group describes itself, not how others identify them. Ukraine decided to not be The Ukraine. The peoples decide what they're called.
What Americans are called in other languages doesn't matter much. Japanese might say amerika-jin while Koreans would say mikuk-in. But in English it would be rude to call me anything other than what I choose to be called.
THANK YOU I don't care what language you speak if you are in someone else's country speaking their language they should refer to the people of that country in their native language period
So, are you saying people from the Continent of America 🌎 can't call themselves Americans since they're from the Continent of America 🌎?
@@CaptainAmerica001 people can call themselves whatever they want. It only gets confusing if you choose a name that someone popular already uses. I might ask friends and family to call me Keanu Reeves, but somebody quite famous already uses that name and it could become confusing.
@@dfunited1
Cool, so an American is from the Continent of America 🌎!👍
@@CaptainAmerica001 There is no continent of america there is North America in South America they are 2 separate continents that are not related to one another.
Puertorican here, for pretty much my entire life living in the island ive seen that almost everyone here refers to americans as either "Americano" or just good ol' "Gringo". Norte Americano is usually used to only refer to Canada & USA, though Estadounidense is also widely used, I'd say Americano or Gringo is a lot more commonly used.
I’d prefer Virginian or Appalachian honestly, but I’m indeed American. Claiming I’m form the US isn’t very descriptive either, when your also such and someone doesn’t need to think hard to find a difference between the average red neck and a Puertorican.
Well, too bad that only North American refers to the USA and Canada when Mexico also belongs within North America... Greenland is also North American but due to the fact that they are not completely an independent country, it could be said that they continue to consider themselves "Europeans" for the Kingdom of Denmark, but the day they become completely independent from Denmark, will the USA consider Greenland as North American?
As citizens of the United States of America, Puerto Ricans can also be rightly called Americans.
@@daviddorsett7550
No, 'American' is not a citizenship.
An American is from the Continent of America.
Puerto Rico is not on the Continent of America.
Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean & is on the Caribbean Plate.
Tectonic plates are not continents.
@@CaptainAmerica001What? Puerto Rico is definitely in the continent of America. The Caribbean Plate is not a continent... it's just a tectonic plate.
8:02 , From Perú here, I feel like "Estadounidense" is the most used, because we're also Americans, Latinamericans specifically (which, by the way, I think is a term that some spanish people might have a problem with maybe?)
In Colombia people from the US are called gringos casually, and Estadounidenses formally. Americanos is not really used that much.
In Spain, we commonly use “Estadounidense” (and some people also use “Norteamericano/a”) to refer to US Nationals, and “Americano/a” to refer to any person from any country of the Americas. Also, we generally consider North America and South America as a single continent (conveniently named “América”)
It was Spain who called British Americans or Americans when they u.s was still a colony
Total !!! Bueno en venezuela es igual , nosotros sabemos q el contienente es America, asi como tu al ser español del continente europeo ( series europeo ) yo seria americana , el problemq es qie los gringos , como que no entienden la logica y solo agarran lo qie le.dijeron a los 5 años
Entonces uno les intenta exlicar con logica y siguen y siguen hasta que te aburres y los dejas en su terquedad
@@axxel_o Lo que estás explicando (que es mayoritariamente cierto, por desgracia), es una ideología que el gobierno de Estados Unidos trató de imponer en todo el continente americano, para forzar la emancipación de territorios coloniales europeos, y ver si podían colonizarlos EEUU. Se llamó la “doctrina Monroe” (por el entonces presidente de EEUU), y vio cómo Cuba, Puerto Rico y la zona del Canal de Panamá se convirtieron en territorios vinculados a EEUU. Es como si decidieran apropiarse de todo un continente, sólo porque llevan el nombre del continente en el de su país. Por eso creo que se hacen llamar “americanos”, y como el nivel de cultura general en dicho país está, de media, por debajo de la media europea, no hay forma de convencerles de lo contrario a lo que ellos creen. Es mejor no perder el tiempo con esas cosas.
Debo, no obstante, reconocer que hay casos concretos de estadounidenses que son bastante cultos en el aspecto. Es probable que, si el autor de este vídeo tuviese el mismo nivel de cultura general que la mayoría de los estadounidenses, ni se hubiera planteado dicha cuestión.
América es un continente único; Venezuela es un país maravilloso, y su gente es excepcional. Saludos desde España.
As a Colombian the Demonyn that we use on a daily basis is "Estado Unidense" being thought from an early age from culture and school. "Americano" has a sense of distaste towards US Citizens generally speaking. It's used more as a negative connotation or with a bit of mockery. Ourselves being called Americans is definitely a no, no as well. for most of the population I would say.
Exacto! By the way; did you know we wanted to claim Columbia but it was already taken lol.
To see how salty the Founders were after the Civil War they said let's make our own 'Columbia' hence we have DC aka Washington.
@@ErikPT Writing "Colombia" as "Columbia" is also highly distained amongst people that know the difference.
@@ErikPT Washington State was also going to be name Colombia, but didn’t want to be confused with (District of) Colombia & changed its name.
In an alternate timeline we could have had an Colombian Colombian moving from Colombia to Colombia.
7:57 Mexican here and no, "estadounidense" IS by far the most used.
Toanswer that question ( 7:56 ), in hispanicamerica (all spanish speaker latinamerican countries) we do use "Estadounidense" in reference of a person from the US. Tho this is the correct word for us, the really common word for them is "Gringo" that may come from greek, for when (I don't if Spanish or Hispanicamerican) didn't know what language is someone spoken it's said that it's talking greek, griego in spanish (Griego -> Gringo)...I'm from Chile and I've never heard that in my life...in my case if I don't know what language is someone talking I say "gringo", not "griego"...(although what I really say is "ke weá", but...yeah...
This isn’t an issue for us American. It’s more of any issue for Latin America cuz they are taught that they are also Americans and we are “estadounidenses.” We are not going to stop calling ourselves American because others don’t like it 😂
An American is from the Continent of America.
'American' is not a nationality or a citizenship!👍
This is ONLY an issue for U.S. Citizens, they don't like other Americans from the Continent of America 🌎 to be called Americans.
They think they're the only ones 😏
Brazilian here. When we talk about people born in the US, we use the word "americano" (male) or "americana" (female) most often, although "estadunidense" is also widely used, but less frequently.
One may think that, because the word "americano" is used, we also use the term "América" to refer to the USA, but, oddly enough, that's not true at all. "América" refers to the continent made up of North America+South America, and we never use this word to refer to the USA, instead we say "Estados Unidos" or the abbreviation EUA. It's like using the word "magyar" to talk about people from Hungary but not calling the country "magyaria" or something like that
Here comes yet another video trying to take our name for us. While it may be proper in Spanish to refer to anyone from North or South America as "American", in the English language "American" means a citizen of the United States of America. In our way of thinking, I am American but someone from Mexico or Argentina or Peru is not. I'm sorry if that upsets some people but that's the way it is. You don't get to decide what we call ourselves. American means a citizen of the USA. Deal with it.
In English language, the "continental" meaning for the word "American" also exists, as in "Native American" or "Organization of American States (OAS)"
@Vrealita Native American typically only refers to indengenous tribes within the US
@@kaiceecrane3884 And when you refere to natives of the Americas in general, as in the context of European colonization, for example?
@Vrealita Indegenous or Native people or tribes, if need to be specific of the Americas, of South America, Canada, or however specific you need be. See, the idea of America related to more than one thing isn't an issue
@@kaiceecrane3884 I can understand that when referring to modern populations of native ancestry and/ or culture. But, do you use "Native Americans" also in a historical sense, referring to the inhabitants of modern USA territory and not to the continent/s?
Sounds weird to me. We don't project modern nationalities upon precolumbian populations when talking in a historical sense.
in latam (mainly in mexico), we often use the word "gringo", despite nobody knowing exactly where it came from
But isn't gringo just for white americans? Do you call black Americans and Latin Americans gringos too?
@@whosaidthat84yeah, I don’t know where the idea of “gringo” being used only for white people or even as a racial slur came from, it may be because depending on context it can have a derogatory meaning, which may make some people associate it with words like the n-word, yellow, or whitey, which are used exclusively to describe someone for their race, and not their nationality.
The Mexican-American War.
I'm from Venezuela and here nobody says "american" (or "americano" in spanish) to refer to the people from USA, the only place i see this term to refer to the USA people is on internet when i see someone speaking english, we say "estadounidense" translated to english I THINK it's "United Statian/Unitedstatian" or something like that, we also use "gringo" but this is a more informal way and some gringos may get offended by this although we don't say it as an offensive way
Well, Venezuelans are continentallity and regionally Americans, due to the fact that the country is in South America, and part of Latin and Hispanic America.
@@SailorMoonFriends I agree
In American English, the standard and correct terminology is:
a) "America" is short for the United States of America. Ergo, yes, "America" IS a country. Just as Mexico is a country, though its official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Hence, obliging Americans to called themselves United Statesans or something similarly ridiculous solves nothing, as Mexicans, by this absurd logic, are also United Statesans.
b) North America and South America together are referred to as "the Americas", not "America". (I don't know if the creator of this video is influenced by the fact that in the Spanish-speaking world the two continents are considered one, which is perfectly legitimate, but it's just not the case in the Anglo-saxon system. Both are valid, but it seems he's applying the Spanish-world criterion, which makes no sense)
Thus, using "America" to refer to the Americas is just confusing and pointless.
If one has some complex because they resent the USA for some reason, that's their business, but not a valid reason to employ terminology that is simply confusing.
In "American English", 'America', in the *official* name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲, has represented a continent for the past 247yrs, even 269yrs before the USA 🇺🇲 existed.
The Continent of America has not changed name in 516yrs.
According to your logic, Mexico is a continent but if America is a country, then *that* logic says Africa is a country.
Same exact logic.
Dude, your logic is *extremely* flawed!!!
Now your logic says the United States of America USA 🇺🇲 *should* be named the United States of North America & South America (USNASA) or the United States of the Américas, but your logic is flawed.
As you can clearly *see & read,* in "American English", in the *official* name of the
United States of 👉America👈, there's a continent named America, *IN "AMERICAN ENGLISH"!!!*
Don't know how "American English" speakers confuse the USA 🇺🇲 for a continent!
America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America, in any language!
@@CaptainAmerica001 Wow. Youve really created a confusing problem where none existed before. America is short for the USA. Period. Its not confusing, its not problematic, its not complex. / The continents are North America and South America. Again, not complex or confusing. / The notion that Americans should not be called Americans is just absurd. Creating a problem where there is none
@@justinpeterson2105
Again;
'America', in the *official* name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲, has represented a continent for the past 247yrs, even 269yrs before the USA 🇺🇲 existed.
The Continent of America has not changed name in 516yrs.
How do people confuse the USA 🇺🇲 for a continent, does it resemble one?
What *is* confusing is why you don't understand "American English" when the Founding Fathers & authors spelled it out for you, I, & passersby!
The United States of America USA 🇺🇲 *simply* means *STATES,* that are *UNITED,* on the Continent *👉OF👈* *AMÉRICA!*
The notion that people from the Continent of America should not be called Americans is just absurd.
Creating a problem where there is none!
@@CaptainAmerica001 Names change their meaning. Yes. America used to refer to the entire New World. It no longer does. It now refers to a country: the USA. The continents are North America and South America. Get over it already.
@@justinpeterson2105
Countries change their names *officially,* not by indoctrination or appropriation!
Again;
In "American English", 'America', in the *official* name of the United States of America USA 🇺🇲, has represented a continent for the past 247yrs, even 269yrs before the USA 🇺🇲 existed.
The Continent of America has not changed name in 516yrs.
According to your logic, Mexico is a continent but if America is a country, then *that* logic says Africa is a country.
Same exact logic.
Dude, your logic is *extremely* flawed!!!
Now your logic says the United States of America USA 🇺🇲 *should* be named the United States of North America & South America (USNASA) or the United States of the Américas, but your logic is flawed.
As you can clearly *see & read,* in "American English", in the *official* name of the
United States of 👉America👈, there's a continent named America, *IN "AMERICAN ENGLISH"!!!*
Don't know how "American English" speakers confuse the USA 🇺🇲 for a continent!
America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America, in any language!
Accept the truth & get over it 😎
For my Spanish friends here who learned English and are now offended by the word, please recognize that this video is ridiculous. In the English language, “American” has come to mean a citizen of the USA. It does not have the same meaning in Spanish. This video was made intentionally for you to keep perpetuating this weird “issue”.
Or we can just not agree with your colonialistic opinion.
@@guidoylosfreaks Stop sending drugs and raping our women, thanks!
Or people living in the Americas can be called North American or South Anerican, based on the continent they are from.Also, Mexico's full name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. (United Mexican States) and at one time Colombia was Estados Unidos de Colobia. So the USA is not the only country with United States in its name.
Yeah Europeans don’t really know many things or culture from this continent.
Don't be ridiculous, in Spanish America is one continent, in English there are two, plus Mexico is a very personal adjective, no one on the continent calls themselves that.
South America, Central America, North America, The Americas, Latin America, Anglo America, Franco-America.
All those names have something in common and it is the word america.
@@sergiojose2000 Absolutely. In Spanish it is viewed as one continent. This is a discussion about how Americans refer to themselves in English. When I am speaking Spanish, I will follow Spanish conventions. It's pretty ethnocentric to demand almost every other language on the planet stops calling Americans American (or some variation there of) just because your language uses it as a catch all for anyone living in any of The Americas.
Interesting that you never talked about Asia. It's a huge diverse continent, but "Asian" usually refers to South East Asians.
Or East Asians for that matter.
You come up with the solution halfway through the video. People from South Africa are South African… so people from North America are North American…… it’s just reversed
As a native Spanish speaker, coming from Latam, I use "Estadounidense" for them, and correct everyone who uses "Americano", for the reasons you just explained. I used to say "Norteamericano" too, but that *should* include Canadians and Mexicans, as they're part of North America.
In English, I've had it harder, and decided to set for just "USA People", which yes, sounds weird and harder to say, but the de-facto demonym doesn't represent what it should, to the point where I get the feeling that some people doesn't even remember that America is a continent. I gotta say, "US-ians" is quite an interesting term, I may adopt it.
just say american not like a normal person
well, people from the Netherlands _are_ also called "Netherlanders" in addition to "Dutch" :P
Yeah but nobody calls them that
Holland??
@@korelamerikano
Holland is actually 2 provinces of the Netherlands.
@@modmaker7617 I know, but their football national went all the way with Holland, so it stuck in our heads for so many time, that this whole country wan Holland
@@korelamerikano
It looks like now the national football team is called the Netherlands not Holland.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_national_football_team
I'm down for being an Usonian or an US-American, and since I'm from West Virginia I'm also technically an Appalachian.
Your also technically a southerner, though your still a bit different to the southerners further south in usa. So Appalachian sounds about right.
Dutch people actually do call themselves “Nederlanders” it’s just in foreign languages that they’re called “dutch”, or “holandais”.
Great video!
It's pretty obnoxious, however, when people dont respect the name we call ourselves, especially since no other country has "america" in their name. Even South African flows pretty well. United States American sounds dreadful.
Plus if you’re using the seven continent model then “American” isn’t stealing the name from another continent. People from Canada, Mexico, Panama etc, are North American. And people from Brazil, Argentina, Chile etc are South American.
I’m from The United States of America 🇺🇸. @NameExplain I politely disagree with you when you say that Americans (USA) shouldn’t be called Americans. People from North America are North Americans not just Americans. The people from South America are South Americans not just Americans. The term Yankee/ Yank/Yanks only referrers to Americans who live in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Technically they shouldn’t even be called American since current day Americans are just British people while the native Americans are the ones who should be referred to as such
@@Epsilon-5 Don't go down that rabbit hole if we go all the way back were all Africans.
@@pokegod99 yep, where do those people draw the line when they bring up that point. Do they also consider Ukraine as part of Russia since it used to be Russia territory. Do they consider parts of Russia as parts of China since it used to be China territory. That’s the problem with those people, they cherry pick which land belongs to who based off who they like and dislike.
I am also from the United States 🇺🇲 👉OF👈 America 🌎.
There's nothing wrong with calling us Americans.
An American is from the Continent of America.
The issue arises when folks say we're the only ones or it's a citizenship/nationality.
I wouldn’t call a Delawarean a yankee. In my experience, they would take offense. They generally consider themselves mid-Atlantic, though many in southern Delaware consider themselves southern.
We have the right to call ourselves whatever we please. It is our American land, our American nation, and our American name.
America is a continent, not a country or a nation. Therefore, 'American' is not a nationality or a citizenship, officially.
Furthermore, an American is from the Continent of America.
@@CaptainAmerica001America is not a continent retake basic geography
@@jdools4744
Of course America is a continent.
Plus, an American is from the Continent of America.
If not, then what is America?
@@CaptainAmerica001 You're just grasping for anything aren't you 😁
@@jdools4744
I'm just educating you using your flawed logic, that's it😉
😎
Everyone in the Americas: "guys were American too!"
People in the US: "we don't care what you think..."
Frankly, the rest of the world whose language isn't Spanish/Portuguese/French/Italian don't really care as well.
Because the countries in the south are already called something else. Just like us always being referred to as Americans when we were from USA.
An American is from the Continent of America.
Greetings from the USA 🇺🇲
There's actually another North American country who's official name includes the United States, the United Mexican States.
Americans aren't Canadians or Mexicans.
The term just works historically. Unless you're from New England, you aren't a Yankee. And frankly, I only consider WASP and Scots Irish New Englander is to be Yankees.
And yet here in the USA we typically refer to ourselves bu the state which we hail from. I.E. Some one from Florida will often refer to themselves as a Floridian, someone from Washington State will refer to themselves as a Washingtonian, someone from Hawaii would refer to themselves as Hawaiian and if they where of Polynesian decent they would be Native Hawaiian, ect. But probably the best example of this is Puerto Rico. They are citizens of the USA because they are a territory. But they more often then not call themselves Puerto Rican.
Puerto Rico is a dependency of America and it is not a state like the others because there are only 50 states and not 51 states!
@@Adrian4239 if you read what I wrote you would see that I didn't call them a state but a territory.
This is largely when talking to other Americans from different parts of the country not as a general rule of thumb
American Alligator - Only exists in the U.S.
American Rhea - Exists in South America
It's so confusing!
Not really- both of those places are in America
Once I started learning Spanish and realised how in Spanish they refer to all people from The Americas as Americano and people from the United States as estadounidense I changed what I call people from the United States. I just they are from the United States or they are North American (which also include Canadians and Mexicans) now. I also stopped calling the country just as America as well and will say the United States or the USA now. If someone from the United States gets offended by me doing this then that’s their problem.
LFMAO Y'all realising the obvious. America it's a name used for the new world. Every European nation added to its own colonies.
Spanish America
British America
French America
Portuguese America
Dutch America etc
When we got independence, we used new names except for the US, the only ones whe just removed the word {British} in British America
Is that the reason to invent the Américas?
What about India?😁 American Indian? No? Ok, I'll stop!
@@CaptainAmerica001 I don't know, they go with this tectonic plates theory and they based what a continent is on geology
As a Mexican, I use "Estadounidense" in more formal settings. I don't use Yankee because I am not used to the term and I always thought it was a bit derogative. I don't like calling them "Americanos" but I do call them "Americans" when I speak in english.
"Estadounidense" is mostly used by people who don't interact with the english-speaking part of the world (in my experience at least), but it is a mouthfull. I honestly just say "los de estados unidos" (the ones from the US). I do say gringo, but never to a gringo. I realized that I use that word when I am complaining about the US.
I don't know. Americs sounds pretty cool to me, but I am sure thats already taken.
Yankee is used for Northern Eastern America during the American Civil War, South states from Confederacy in the Civil used Dixie for themselves and find the term Yankee derogatory.
Many people from the USA dislike being called Yankee or Gringo/gringa. When we are not around say anything you want, but it will irritate some people from the USA to call them one of these terms.
American makes less sense when you consider colonies like Hawaii or Guam that are not part of the American continent but are still called "American".
That is because in English “America” refers to a country not a continent. What Latin Americans refer to as “America” are two separate continents in English.
This is only confusing if you don’t understand how things are in the English language. Honestly the only people who this upsets are die hard Latin Americans who don’t care about the cultures of either America or Canada and want to impose their system and definitions of things on us regardless of our national identities or language
Wrong. Maybe in the Spanish-speaking world and maybe in some other places Americans aren't called Americans but since we (America) were founded we've used American to call ourselves and as we became more powerful and interacted with other people more, they called us that too. We shouldn't change it because the Spanish-speaking world doesn't call Americans American, the vast-majority of the world uses Americans to identify people from the United States of America, not from Mexico or Ecuador.
Spanish here, the most common term is “americano” to refer to the US on the context, I know someone for the Brazil said the same thing, but I wanted to feel special
Edit: my dialect is northern Mexican, around the chihuahua, and Guanajuato area, so that could be a form of influence, not to sure
My wife is from Mexico and they call us Gringos and Gabachos. And they often refer to the US as "el Gabacho" or "the other side" (el otro lado).
Unironically she probably hates you. In America gringo is a slur In places like California
@@angellara7040 You don't understand Mexicans if you think that. Most of the "Mexicans" in LA are actually gringos trying to differentiate themselves to maintain an identity. They're kind of their own thing. If a Mexican friend who I know well calls me a gringo, I 100% know it's not malicious. It's all about your relationship with the person. They call their own kids things like "fatty," "big head," etc and it's all love. They're way less thin skinned than we are.
@@ScottJB I'm Mexican jackass. Shut it gringo
@@angellara7040 Cálmate un chingo, pochito
I can't use the word Georgian to describe myself without confusion. The state by state solution was one notable exception.
Georgia is also a country below Russia, it's the exact same issue but you don't care because the group of people is smaller and more remote.
@@badomen7199 Of course there's a Georgia south of Russia. There has to be more than one Georgia to cause the above mentioned confusion. As far as me not caring, you read your own bs into that. Though considering you could read my statement and assume I don't know about the much older Georgia, it looks like you can barely read at all.
@@donavonaddison4382 I don't think you got the point, the point is it's the exact same issue, there's really no moral difference between referring to yourself as Georgian or American, I get it if you don't care, but a lot of people don't even know the country exists, and I thought you may have been trying to say that referring to yourself via state was better than country, either way works. Btw wdym bs, is it bs that I don't care? What are you even saying is bs, I wrote a good amount.
@@badomen7199their is a moral difference, our language recognizes Georgia as country, we dont recognize anyone else in the world as americans besides ourselves, an american will never think of a Brazilian as American, because in english they aren't an american, they are a south american which is a continent.
Your the culture imperialist here trying to force spanish/Portuguese culture onto americans because you dislike what they call themselves. In english only people from usa can be americans because only we exist in a place called America, their are no other americans only north and south americans.
bro I posted this a year ago, I have no recollection of the video or argument to refute anything you say, nor a desire to rewatch all of it. I have no idea why you decided to scroll what had to be many minutes through the comments, only to arrive on this year old comment, and decide to argue with it@@damackabet.4611
If you are a Canadian, Mexican, Caribbean, Central or South American citizen, you are still considered an American citizen because this is the Americas.
Grammatically, the word 'OF' (in United States of America) implies that they are NOT the whole America, but only the united states. So basically, the name of the country is 'US', the 'A' is representing something bigger they are part of. CHECK MATE!
Edit: The American United States sounds lit 🔥
@Koawa_ Key word: 'OF', used as preposition.
Czech Republic are two nouns modifying one another... Both with equal meaning and importance.
Not even close logics bro .-.
The formal name of the country is "United States of America". It is not the United States. There’s no implied reference to anything external. The word "America" in United States of America is a reference to what the United States compose.
@@ScentlessSun Of course there is an external reference... The word America is referring to the continent they're in... Or you really think the US came with the name "America"? (which is even a Latin name)... The US does not 'compose' America, as you said. Take out the US from the map and America is still a place, wtf???
@ScentlessSun America can still exist without USA. USA just happened to be a country within America which is a continent. Why are people forgetting that the name was given by a Italian called Amerigo Vespucci??? You are using a Latin word
@@kyordannydelvalle523 I couldn't have said that better 👌
I'm Brazilian and I always say estadunidense, and I'm noticing that this term is getting more and more common, principally among the youngs.
In English I use US American to specify someone from the USA, and I think that the Statian term is kinda nice.
Oooo Statian… this US American approves! 👍
I love calling them statians, more than anything because a lot of them get mad and say "we are american, call us american and cope" lol.
@@alanetchetto8908 Sounds about right. There are way too many fragile, toxic egos here. There are way more serious issues in the world that they could channel that “passion” towards. Please take my word for it, not all of us are like that. 🤣
I'm an American living in the UK, and it's common for the Brits (another demonym under disputation) to refer to the USA as "the States". So "Statesian" makes some sense. But in Brazilian wouldn't it be more like "Statesiano"?
I understand your perspective, but please don’t call me Statian, that makes me cringe. We also aren’t the only country of states
Me, I was born in Haiti therefore I'm Haitian-American this is how I always refer to myself.