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Posted April 09, 2015
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JudasIscariot: 'Murricans. I should know, I lived there :P

In PL speak - jankes :P
I stopped answering to "'Murrican" after "Dubya" was out of office (c. 2009) :-)
Posted April 09, 2015
Moonwalkers?
Posted April 09, 2015
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Darvond: You call us per state, but 'US Citizen' if you want to be boring.
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Mrstarker: Which one? There are two United States in North America.
Not any more. The Confederates lost...
Posted April 09, 2015
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budejovice: the best word is "American."
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vicklemos: Glad to see this didn't spread out there.
There are South Africans and even Central Africans (yep, there's the Central African Republic, remember?) who don't need to name themselves Africans only. Afterall, it's a whole continent.
Proud african here. Whoops :)
I believe your problem with actual usage should be addressed to Europeans that lived hundreds of years before any of us were born.
Posted April 09, 2015
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awalterj: Moonwalkers?
*Kubrick flies away*.... :D
Posted April 09, 2015
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Mrstarker: Which one? There are two United States in North America.
The English Speaking one that isn't actually technically part of Britain.
Posted April 09, 2015
Just speaking from experience here; but most of the American TV shows I've watched and American news I've seen seem to convey that America is a platform for humans to display themselves; a country without a culture. Whats with that?

Anyhow; how about United Citizens of The Federation of States lying north of Mexico and south of Beib.....Canada?
Posted April 09, 2015
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Shadowstalker16: Just speaking from experience here; but most of the American TV shows I've watched and American news I've seen seem to convey that America is a platform for humans to display themselves; a country without a culture. Whats with that?

Anyhow; how about United Citizens of The Federation of States lying north of Mexico and south of Beib.....Canada?
Whats wrong with displaying oneself? Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. :P
Posted April 09, 2015
What are inhabitants of the United States called?

Americans. Just as inhabitants of the EU are called Europeans.
Posted April 09, 2015
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Romanul: What are inhabitants of the United States called?

Americans. Just as inhabitants of the EU are called Europeans.
Same problem. Switzerland is not member of the EU, but it's part of Europe and its citizens are by definition Europeans...

To make things worse, French Guiana is a part of France but lies in South America. As such it is part of the EU but not exactly what one would think of as "European".
Post edited April 09, 2015 by Randalator
Posted April 09, 2015
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Shadowstalker16: Just speaking from experience here; but most of the American TV shows I've watched and American news I've seen seem to convey that America is a platform for humans to display themselves; a country without a culture. Whats with that?

Anyhow; how about United Citizens of The Federation of States lying north of Mexico and south of Beib.....Canada?
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tinyE: Whats wrong with displaying oneself? Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. :P
Nothing ofc. But to most of the outside world; the US seems like the ''normal'' that everything is measured by; taken as an uninteresting blank slate.
Posted April 09, 2015
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tinyE: Whats wrong with displaying oneself? Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. :P
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Shadowstalker16: Nothing ofc. But to most of the outside world; the US seems like the ''normal'' that everything is measured by; taken as an uninteresting blank slate.
I'm getting a headache thinking about this. :P I think I crawl back into my cave.
Posted April 09, 2015
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Shadowstalker16: Nothing ofc. But to most of the outside world; the US seems like the ''normal'' that everything is measured by; taken as an uninteresting blank slate.
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tinyE: I'm getting a headache thinking about this. :P I think I crawl back into my cave.
And for God's sake cover yourself!
Posted April 09, 2015
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Chandoraa: ..."the Americas" to refer to the American continent as a whole, rather than "America" (which they use to refer to just their country). So yeah...
But this is also kind of misleading or not unique usage then, isn't it. So there is a continent, the American continent and it is called the Americas because it consists of two parts and in the North American part there is a country which calls itself America and the inhabitants of this country are Americans but all the other inhabitants of the Americas are not Americans then, otherwise how could you distinguish them from the other Americans who live in the Americas?

From the name of the country USA the correct name should probably be US Americans, because the citizens of the US are Americans but specifically the Americans of the United States of America and not of any other State of America. But people are lazy and forget to add the US and then it becomes a bit messy. So just a laziness effect, the correct name exists.
Post edited April 09, 2015 by Trilarion
Posted April 09, 2015
Is this thing a debate?I haven't heard the citizens of US being called other than Americans..?
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