Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?
Edit: Thanks for all your answers, especially the wholesome ones and those patient enough to explain it thoroughly. Since we (South Americans) and you (North Americans) use different models/conventions of continent boundaries, it makes sense for you to go by “Americans”, while it doesn’t for us.
It’s always been funny to me when latin Americans get pissy at the term American being used to describe the country who’s president is Biden ( said with love as mx) . They always try to correct Americans to “estados unidenses” United Statean. Which in my opinion doesn’t work for 3 reasons. First name recognition most of the world associate Americans with 'merica. 2nd it’s a difficult set of words for Anglo speakers especially vs Americano. Thirdly there are actually 2 countries thats proper name include “United States” those are united states of American and United States of Mexico, who colloquially are known as America and Mexico respectively.
Normally just say American, but if it matters I’ll say USAan
USAlien
Only one country on those countries has the word “America” in its name.
It’s commonly understood by all but the most pedantic that “americans” refers exclusively to inhabitants of the USA.
So they should call them American Americans, or Americericans for short; like I talk about English English because calling it British English implies Scots talk the same way.
;-)
Lowkey solid answer
Why not England’s English?
They could call themselves “States of America”
Are you suggesting that “united states” implies something like the triple point of water?
I’ve never had to differentiate before like I have in this conversation. I think I would say “US Americans” since it seems to adopt other languages calling us something like United Statesans without creating an odd word like Statesans.
I think I would say “US Americans”
And I will reply YOU Americans
USAdian
To add a bit of context, it isn’t arrogance or something that drives us to use “American” as a demonym, it’s just the linguistic norm. I don’t find any of the other names offensive (except seppo, but that one is meant to offend me), but most of us would probably do a double take at the term “USican” or “USian.” Virtually all of us would accept Yankee.
Further reading: the full name of Mexico is the United Mexican States. If we wanted to be pedantic, we could say that using the reference to the US would be ambiguous, as they too are technically a US.
Wasn’t Yankee historical origin as a derogatory term?
Treasonous Colonial
Stinky Gringo
I was born in Missouri in the USA.
I am human.
This nonsense is a source of human conflict. Knock it off.
“someone born in the US”
This is one of the reasons Americans will often identify themselves as a citizen of their state or even city. They say they’re Texan or a New Yorker, for example.
It can come off as conceited, as it’s not reasonable to expect non-Americans to have a perfect knowledge of US geography, but it helps the sentences flow and is more accurate/specific than just ‘American.’
I have never heard anyone refer to themselves as American the way people refer to themselves as European. It’s really not a thing so there is literally zero confusion when you call a citizen of the USA an American.
While technically correct, I’ve never heard a Brazilian refer to themselves as “American” when they intended to mean South American. Linguistically, when you say “American” you’re talking about a citizen of the United States, not just any person from the western hemisphere. And if you’re talking about a specific continent (North America, Central America, South America) you’re going to be specific about it. A Brazilian would say “I’m South American” when referring to their continent.
Yank
Judging from playing video games in EU lobbies, “Hamburger”?
In spanish its estadounidense
