Other meaning for USA people
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Oregonos sounds like part of a complete breakfast.
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Oregano-s and Oregon-O’s. I like it.
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Do Southerners use Yankee pejoratively to refer to northerners?
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I'm afraid so. There are a lot of people still fighting our Civil War, the one that supposedly ended over 150 years ago. Even without those troglodytes, there is a distinct cultural difference between the North and South, as I think there is in many countries. We tend to rub each other the wrong way sometimes.
Old joke about the difference. Walk up to a Southerner's house, and they say, "can I help you?" Walk up to a Yankee's house, and it's, "whaddya want?"
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I've heard gringo is about language, primarily English. Not about being a whitey
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They're just Americans anyways
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Yes, since the civil war era.
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In the USA, Yankee refers to mainly northeast US, including the New York City area. Western Americans would be neutral about being called that and you might piss off some southerners.
My exposure to the term gringo has mainly been that it refers to white Americans. I don't know if you would call a black American gringo or how they would accept it.
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Or as my husband's Southern-ass grandma called it, the "war of northern agression"
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Reflexively I wanted to downvote that
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Most americans, the majority of whom don't live in the US, dislike the usurpation of that term. There's a longer history starting in the late 1800s of US politicians using "america", "greater america", to coincide with its imperial ambitions in Latin america and the carribean.
The USA even had a time when it had more people in its colonies living outside its contiguous borders, than it did inside.
There's a lot on this in the book, how to hide an empire.
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What about it?
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Most americans, the majority of whom don't live in the US
Gonna stop you right there. The number of Americans who don't live in in the US is tiny.
"American" is the demonym for someone from the United States of America. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it's been in the English language for hundreds of years, and getting angry about it doesn't change linguistics, which is defined by usage.
English speakers don't recognise the Americas as a single continent, but as two separate continents separated by the isthmus of Panama. So it doesn't make sense to have a single demonym to refer to everyone from those two continents.
The arrogance of some Spanish speakers of thinking they have the right to dictate the English language is astounding. And I refuse to buy into it. I'm not coming into Spanish-speaking spaces and trying to change how they talk about things in their language.
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Honestly, reading this comment is really just reinforcing for me why we say American. Reading "USAien" over and over again hurts my head.
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German here, most of the time I say "US-American"
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In Brazil, we use USians or Statesians
I used the second one on an academic paper and it went through.
I NEVER use "American", because
America no es solo USA, papá
esto es desde el Tierra del Fuego hasta el Canada -
Mexican upbringing here, it is most definitely a "Whitey" thing.
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Hi, Brazilian here.
I'm sorry, but "the number of Americans who don't live in the US is tiny"?? WTF?
Hi, South ~~AMERICAN!!!! here.
the US doesn't get to shove their so-called "democracy" up our asses, impose their monetary exchange, be proud of their stupid ass imperialism, force people to learn their dumb as fuck language and then go "yeah, it's OUR language, you can't dictate how we call ourselves"
Sorry, dude, but you kinda lost the privilege to "dictate" your own language when you decided to think about the whole third world as your backyard and to name yourselves after THE WHOLE FUCKING CONTINENT.
peace, bye!
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America no es solo USA
Nah, we often call them Americans too, despite them being like Canada's trousers. Many (most? I'm not certain) Canadians know how Americans label themselves abroad and are okay being a separate group to avoid bad impressions. "eres Americano? No; soy Canadiense" or so.
But thanks for thinking of us. It's great to be considered!
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Might want to check who you're actually talking to here. You seem to be making some incorrect assumptions.
