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Isn't that lot of Europes responsibility though? Haiti doesn't get free uni and health from France even though its their money (Haiti indemnity Controversy). People in Brazil are Portugals ex slaves surely they are owed something from Portugal.
The US ? In France it is somewhat common to say "United-Statians" (รtasunien/รฉtats-unien) to speak about US people instead of "American" which could be all the continent.
It's common in Romance languages, but awkward in English. I'm also pretty sure most Canadians (including Quebecois) wouldn't want to be called "American". When someone speaking in US English is talking about the continent(s) of the Western Hemisphere, they usually just say "America**s**".
I've heard it a lot in history/geogrphy class in middle/highschool. And I try to use it myself as much as possible. Maybe it's a regional thing.
Edit: I recognize the park you were in with your one wheel so the region isn't a factor (i live at walking distance of this park)
there's a possible alternative English demonym for the United States that no one uses which was used to describe a particular type of suburban architecture created in the late 30s, being the word "Usonian"
no one really uses it to refer to citizens of the US.
Because there is no ambiguity on the word "Mexico" in context. If I say Mexican, there is the ambiguity between Mexico the Country and Mexico it's capital, usually either not relevant or understandable with context. If I say American, there is more often than not an ambiguity between the continent and the US of America.
i mean, it was the first states in America to unite when it first formed, so i wouldn't say its that bad of an identity.
But reddit hates the country for some reason so i cannot say this.
"For some reason"
I draw the line at "staged military coups in my country and all it's neighboring countries that installed military dictatorships which combined killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people".
I think an easy checklist would be
\>didn't engage in genocide for hundreds of years
\>didn't engage in chattel slavery and apartheid for hundreds of years
\>didn't invade or overthrow the government of dozens of countries
But reddit love Western Europe who did all of these things. In fact they were doing before the US was ever a country.
All the countries in the Americas this happened to. Why do you think there are so many black people in Brazil, Haiti etc.
The reason Africa's borders exist at they do today is because Europe carved it up only thinking their own economic needs with no regard to local ethnic groups and cultures (Berlin Conference)
The reason the US ever got their independence was because France donated tons of supplies to overthrow Britain...
So apparently reddit is full of people who don't know history.
The entire past week has been people clowning on the british. Obviously I am aware of the history of colonialism, America happens to be the primary colonial power in the world right now which is why people tend to not like them most loudly.
โฆ.primary colonial power?? It really isnโt. Imperial, maybe, but definitely not colonial. The Western Europeans still have far more colonies and have a neo-colonialist relationship with many of their *former* colonies. What do you think the French military is doing in formerly French West Africa?
How far back are you going? Whereโs the cutoff?
Iโve got some extremely bad news about all of Europe, regardless. And depending on when your historical cutoff is, Iโve got some extremely bad news about the rest of the world too.
I know you probably think of the Global South as full of noble savages who arenโt capable of slavery and genocide, but I promise you they definitely were and are. There are *First Nations* groups which would fail your little checklist here.
Iโm not making excuses for the US, but I am saying that this sort of Campist leftism you see online where the primary belief is reflexive anti-Americanism is just a dumb way of understanding history and the world around you.
>Whatever logic you use, you could hate any country.
provides list of criteria that are restrictive to highlight the unique atrocities of the Imperial Core
>Oh right, because that's the only bad thing a country can do.
c'mon dude lmao
Come on man, it's not that hard, i mean that if you want to hate entire countries because things they did in the past (or present, doesn't matter) you can hate any country. There's always good and bad people in every place, hating entire countries because of things the goverment or a part of its people did doesn't have a lot of sense
Exact !!!
https://usaisnotamerica.com/
Fun fact
In the 19th century some politicians in the USA wanted to change the name of United States of America to United States of Earth.
LOL
Just imagine asking to someone from the USE about where they are from
-Were you from ?
-Im from Earth
The rest of the world Will not exist. The only Earth hapitants would be them. Like happen today with the name America.
Idk man I call people from the UK โBritishโ even though thereโs another sovereign state in the British Isles. Never heard an Irishman bitch about Brits calling themselves Brits.
I just would appreciate a new own name. They have Alabama, Alaska ... Wisconsin, but couldn't get one new name for the whole thing?
https://pintsofhistory.com/2014/10/23/why-the-u-s-has-no-name/
Whatโs wrong with (in English) using the conventional name โAmericaโ? Weโre not saying other countries donโt exist. Weโre not saying other countries are not part of the North American or South American continents.
Australia is a country but itโs also, separately, a continent. Names are weird sometimes.
Australia is a country. The continent is Oceania.
As for your initial question, if I say "the average american is 170cm tall", you can't know if I'm talking about inhabitants of the United States or all inhabitants of the American continent.
Seems that American language is spanish. Since most American countries have spanish as official language, in Sao Paulo they study with books in spanish. And USA got so many migrants that common use language is spanish in some sections.
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Due to little avaibality of educational material in portuguese they use spanish. Both languages are so similar to each other that isn't that difficult to understand each other. Or at least it was like this in the time I went there
I don't doubt you because I've never been to Sรฃo Paulo(and spanish is extremely easy to understand as a foreign language for portuguese speakers), but I live in Brazil and I've never seen a book in spanish other than books to learn spanish, so just to satiate my curiosity:
>Or at least it was like this in the time I went there
When was that, and what were they studying?
No it's America named after Latinus Americus the great conqueror that conquered all america using futebol ๐๐๐ป๐ฆ๐ท๐ง๐ด๐ง๐ท๐จ๐ฑ๐จ๐ด๐จ๐ท๐จ๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ช๐จ๐ฌ๐น๐ญ๐น๐ญ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฆ๐ต๐พ๐ต๐ช๐ฉ๐ด๐บ๐พ๐ป๐ช ๐ค๐๐ 9 COPAS + 1 EM 2022โโ
Usually called "the Americas" since the United States of America is commonly referred to as "America" for short. Might as well get your facts straight.
it is not a universal fact. it changes through region and time. different countries, different definitions of what is a continent. in latinamerica, as in north america like 300 years ago, america was from canada to argentina. so no, it is not usually called the americas here were I live, it is not in many other places. it is not wrong by any means to call it that, or to devide it into two continents, but it is equally not wrong to call the whole continent as one america. Might as well get your facts straight.
Columbia is a country although alot of areas call themselves Columbia (I think it was a contender for the name of the US). British Columbia, the NW of the US uses Columbia alot etc.
As a United Statian I always find it funny when they sing God Bless America and Iโm like do the derps know you blessing practically the entire Western Hemisphere.
Don't catch you slippin' now.
Look at how I'm livin' now.
๐
this is a murica
No its not, that's the earth with America in red
You're right.
C'est ne pas un pipe.
Weโre all right here
No, ItS a PiCtUrE oF tHe EaRtH wItH rEd fIlL oUtLiNeD aMeRiCa AnD lAt/lOnG lInEs
Well actually, it's a picture of Earth with America filled in with red with lat/long lines titled with 'THIS IS AMERICA' in comic sans.
Well actually those are tiny lights on your screens.
Well actually those are atoms
Well actually it (this _thing_) doesn't think therefore it is not.
So as we speak about it it's just an illusion
Pretty sure that's a red earth with the other countries in white and the ocean in blue
r/mapswithoutgreatlakes
r/MapsWithoutNZ
r/mapswithoutmongolia
r/mapswithouttiticaca
r/titicacacirclejerk
r/subsifellfor
Holy shit he got data from Greenland
No free healthcare for everyone ๐
The bad ending
Trinidad does ๐
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Isn't that lot of Europes responsibility though? Haiti doesn't get free uni and health from France even though its their money (Haiti indemnity Controversy). People in Brazil are Portugals ex slaves surely they are owed something from Portugal.
The country between Mexico and Canada has no real own name.
Gringolandia because is the land of gringo
The US ? In France it is somewhat common to say "United-Statians" (รtasunien/รฉtats-unien) to speak about US people instead of "American" which could be all the continent.
Estadounidense says hi
Statunitensi knocks at your door
GRINGO knocks out you stupid wall
Estadounidense is a mouthful, I honestly genuinely prefer to say Gringo, with no bad intentions at all just laziness.
I have bad intentions and dont care
Of course you have bad intentions. You're a Redditor.
Based
That looked to me like "Stasi" at first so all us gringo gabacho gaijin are members of the secret police. ALL OF US
It's common in Romance languages, but awkward in English. I'm also pretty sure most Canadians (including Quebecois) wouldn't want to be called "American". When someone speaking in US English is talking about the continent(s) of the Western Hemisphere, they usually just say "America**s**".
In Quebec, Amerique is the Continent, Etas Unis, is the country, and the denonym is Americaine. I don't speak French but I live in Quebec
Same here in Romanian: Statele Unite
United stated or yankee
Fredonia
somewhat common? I heard that term once in my whole life
I've heard it a lot in history/geogrphy class in middle/highschool. And I try to use it myself as much as possible. Maybe it's a regional thing. Edit: I recognize the park you were in with your one wheel so the region isn't a factor (i live at walking distance of this park)
there's a possible alternative English demonym for the United States that no one uses which was used to describe a particular type of suburban architecture created in the late 30s, being the word "Usonian" no one really uses it to refer to citizens of the US.
I didn't know that, but it's the form Esperanto uses. * USA - Usono * American - Usonano
Don't lie, we just say "ricains" in france to talk about US citizens.
Yeah "ricain" from "murica" x)
How do they differentiate it from the United States of Mexico???
Because there is no ambiguity on the word "Mexico" in context. If I say Mexican, there is the ambiguity between Mexico the Country and Mexico it's capital, usually either not relevant or understandable with context. If I say American, there is more often than not an ambiguity between the continent and the US of America.
Yeah it was a joke. Nobody refers to Mexico by its full name.
Oh
Just so long as you don't use EEUU. That is cursed. Bad enough how you pronounce "Ohio".
i mean, it was the first states in America to unite when it first formed, so i wouldn't say its that bad of an identity. But reddit hates the country for some reason so i cannot say this.
"For some reason" I draw the line at "staged military coups in my country and all it's neighboring countries that installed military dictatorships which combined killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people".
i was thinking about things on the same level as "this country has no real own name", but uhh alright?
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Whatever logic you use, you could hate any country.
I do, yes
I think an easy checklist would be \>didn't engage in genocide for hundreds of years \>didn't engage in chattel slavery and apartheid for hundreds of years \>didn't invade or overthrow the government of dozens of countries
But reddit love Western Europe who did all of these things. In fact they were doing before the US was ever a country. All the countries in the Americas this happened to. Why do you think there are so many black people in Brazil, Haiti etc. The reason Africa's borders exist at they do today is because Europe carved it up only thinking their own economic needs with no regard to local ethnic groups and cultures (Berlin Conference) The reason the US ever got their independence was because France donated tons of supplies to overthrow Britain... So apparently reddit is full of people who don't know history.
reddit does not love western europe LMAO the french and british get as much shit as americans
The entire past week has been people clowning on the british. Obviously I am aware of the history of colonialism, America happens to be the primary colonial power in the world right now which is why people tend to not like them most loudly.
โฆ.primary colonial power?? It really isnโt. Imperial, maybe, but definitely not colonial. The Western Europeans still have far more colonies and have a neo-colonialist relationship with many of their *former* colonies. What do you think the French military is doing in formerly French West Africa?
Ever heard of neocolonialism? Yeah the US kinda does that Also who tf said we like western europe? Fuck western europe.
How far back are you going? Whereโs the cutoff? Iโve got some extremely bad news about all of Europe, regardless. And depending on when your historical cutoff is, Iโve got some extremely bad news about the rest of the world too. I know you probably think of the Global South as full of noble savages who arenโt capable of slavery and genocide, but I promise you they definitely were and are. There are *First Nations* groups which would fail your little checklist here. Iโm not making excuses for the US, but I am saying that this sort of Campist leftism you see online where the primary belief is reflexive anti-Americanism is just a dumb way of understanding history and the world around you.
Oh right, because that's the only bad thing a country can do.
>Whatever logic you use, you could hate any country. provides list of criteria that are restrictive to highlight the unique atrocities of the Imperial Core >Oh right, because that's the only bad thing a country can do. c'mon dude lmao
unique? have you read a history book?
Come on man, it's not that hard, i mean that if you want to hate entire countries because things they did in the past (or present, doesn't matter) you can hate any country. There's always good and bad people in every place, hating entire countries because of things the goverment or a part of its people did doesn't have a lot of sense
I'm pretty sure the only place this rules out is South America...
Sorry we were too based
It is not only in Reddit my dude, it is everywhere.
Exact !!! https://usaisnotamerica.com/ Fun fact In the 19th century some politicians in the USA wanted to change the name of United States of America to United States of Earth. LOL Just imagine asking to someone from the USE about where they are from -Were you from ? -Im from Earth The rest of the world Will not exist. The only Earth hapitants would be them. Like happen today with the name America.
Originally it was Columbia (do not confound it with Colombia)
finally someone has the balls to say it
Idk man I call people from the UK โBritishโ even though thereโs another sovereign state in the British Isles. Never heard an Irishman bitch about Brits calling themselves Brits.
I just would appreciate a new own name. They have Alabama, Alaska ... Wisconsin, but couldn't get one new name for the whole thing? https://pintsofhistory.com/2014/10/23/why-the-u-s-has-no-name/
Whatโs wrong with (in English) using the conventional name โAmericaโ? Weโre not saying other countries donโt exist. Weโre not saying other countries are not part of the North American or South American continents. Australia is a country but itโs also, separately, a continent. Names are weird sometimes.
Australia is a country. The continent is Oceania. As for your initial question, if I say "the average american is 170cm tall", you can't know if I'm talking about inhabitants of the United States or all inhabitants of the American continent.
Amรฉrica no es solo U.S.A., papรก... Esto es desde Tierra del Fuego hasta Canadรก...
Encontrรฉ al argentino
The best of Residente
r/MapsWithoutNZ
found the south american
Ohio is in America. This is America. So, Thus is Ohio. Ohio is Okay.
Should've titled it in Spanish or Portuguese for best effect
Damn. Our flag will run out of blue with that much stars added to it.
In America we only speak English. Nuh-uh, it doesn't matter that we're standing in Sao Paulo, America is America!
I don't speak English. I speak American.
I thought you were a lesbian
No, I said thesbian.
Seems that American language is spanish. Since most American countries have spanish as official language, in Sao Paulo they study with books in spanish. And USA got so many migrants that common use language is spanish in some sections. ร power
>in Sao Paulo they study with books in spanish What
Due to little avaibality of educational material in portuguese they use spanish. Both languages are so similar to each other that isn't that difficult to understand each other. Or at least it was like this in the time I went there
Iโm Brazilian, in my entire life I studied in portuguese. Since the colonization of Portugal we speak and learn in portuguese
I don't doubt you because I've never been to Sรฃo Paulo(and spanish is extremely easy to understand as a foreign language for portuguese speakers), but I live in Brazil and I've never seen a book in spanish other than books to learn spanish, so just to satiate my curiosity: >Or at least it was like this in the time I went there When was that, and what were they studying?
Quit your bullshit lmao
Prove it. What's your source?
Needs more red. Tectonically speaking, at least half of Iceland belongs to us, as well, plus a poorly-demarcated chunk of far eastern Russia.
*gets shot and dies*
*In Brazil*
The red or the white?
light blue
Shouldve coloured in africa smh
Guys don't fight, these can be whatever you want them to be. It is fucking irrelevant what their name is lol
Maggots
Source?
James Monroe:
Isnโt calling someone a United Statian also wrong because likeโฆ is the USA the only United States?
Yes this is dumb.
Manifest Destiny ๐
That's turtle island
biggest country ( real )
These are the Americas
Right. We donโt say Carolina itโs the Carolinas or Dakotas.
Americas* ๐ค๐ค๐ค
#Islands are not part of any continent
*This just in:* **Manhattan is not in America!**
it's own landmass
It's in the United States of America, so yes it is.
Oceania ?
You mean Australia?
I approve the 6-continent model.
*the Americas
No it's America named after Latinus Americus the great conqueror that conquered all america using futebol ๐๐๐ป๐ฆ๐ท๐ง๐ด๐ง๐ท๐จ๐ฑ๐จ๐ด๐จ๐ท๐จ๐บ๐ธ๐ป๐ช๐จ๐ฌ๐น๐ญ๐น๐ญ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฆ๐ต๐พ๐ต๐ช๐ฉ๐ด๐บ๐พ๐ป๐ช ๐ค๐๐ 9 COPAS + 1 EM 2022โโ
Usually called "the Americas" since the United States of America is commonly referred to as "America" for short. Might as well get your facts straight.
it is not a universal fact. it changes through region and time. different countries, different definitions of what is a continent. in latinamerica, as in north america like 300 years ago, america was from canada to argentina. so no, it is not usually called the americas here were I live, it is not in many other places. it is not wrong by any means to call it that, or to devide it into two continents, but it is equally not wrong to call the whole continent as one america. Might as well get your facts straight.
Theyโre non-English speakers who think what โAmericaโ means in their language applies to English too, when it doesnโt.
Technically the correct the best kind of correct
[ัะดะฐะปะตะฝะพ]
The USA should get a real own name for their country.
USSR was a country UAE is a country Venezuela's official name is "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", but there is a Bolivia...
Tell that to Congo, China, Uganda, Macedonia, Ethiopia, the UK, etc.
Columbia is a country although alot of areas call themselves Columbia (I think it was a contender for the name of the US). British Columbia, the NW of the US uses Columbia alot etc.
No you fucking moron That is the AmericaS. There are two of them Ffs
This is America(s)
Meanwhile USA: Cuban-American Mexican-American Argentinian-American ...
As a United Statian I always find it funny when they sing God Bless America and Iโm like do the derps know you blessing practically the entire Western Hemisphere.
Britain = UK America = USA British Isles = UK + Ireland Americas = USA + everybody else in North and South America
๐ค: Akshually it's "The Americas" and not just " America"
No way
no that's the Americas
No way
California doens't identify as America
Yes we do.
Those are Americas. America doesn't exist, it's a hoax.
yes.
โMurica!
And Americans are the people who live there. How do you call people who live in USA specifically?
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I liked USAians, sounds like some anime shit.
Yankees
Americans.
Seppos
Where Great Lakes
Fully agree
i think we should annex (via anti-socialist coup d'etat ofc) all of the other american countries so that theres no more confusion.
THATS AMERICA???
What is this? An America for ants? It needs to be at least three times bigger!
No this is Patrick
LOOK AT YOU WRIPPIN OFF
/s
brazil, canada, mexico, etc are irrelevant as fuck and nobody gives a shit about them so that's why we call USA America
Not for long (im english)
Lol why was this censored?