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I don't think translation is necessary... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/mapporncirclejerk

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[–] Hobbes_Dent 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everyone in the Americas who isn’t in the USA has given up trying to explain to them. They aren’t capable.

[–] RupeThereItIs 6 points 1 month ago

Nobody in Canada wants to be called American.

This is a language and continent model issue, the lack of understanding is not in the side of the Americans or the rest of the anglosphere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Confusingly, Mexico's official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. You could accurately describe a Mexican as Estadounidense, if you wanted to be a pedant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's no continent named Mexico, so I think things will be ok for now

[–] Lemminary 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But there's a Gulf! Oh wait nvm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

We can fix the problem by calling it Gulf of United States

[+] RupeThereItIs -8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's no continent named America either, so that is not confusing.

Those on the continent of North America are north Americans, those on the continent of South America are south Americans, only those from the USA are just American.

The Americas are two completely different continents, with two distinct continental plates, connected by an isthmus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thanks for anglosplaining. Now go look at a wikipedia page or two to see how there are different definitions for continents

[–] RupeThereItIs -1 points 1 month ago

Right, but any definition that has those two land masses as a single continent is objectively wrong.

Same with Eurasia being two, just eurocentric quackery.

And anybody getting worked up about Americans calling ourselves Americans are flatly on the wrong side of this.

[–] FelixCress 0 points 3 weeks ago

Found a USian.

[–] El_guapazo 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was expecting a cup of coffee

[–] Lemminary 1 points 1 month ago

No, guapo uwu

[–] cornshark 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think a little translation is necessary. I don't speak it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Unitedstatesian.

Northamerican.

American.