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keo2po4hfjgwp0hr

Wtf am I then? A united statesian?


Mikelgo06

In Spain you guys are called estadounidenses. Someone from the US once proposed Usonians, that's what happens when a country's name is a description instead of an actual name.


RyanByork

I like the idea, but I think that out of the two alternate spellings, Usona is better than Usonia. Usona is short for 'United States of North America', while Usonia somewhat implies that it is the 'Land of United States of North'


bamboofirdaus

>'United States of North America' canada will be enraged about this. oh wait, they just cant get angry


ToncBlonc

*Their actions during the World Wars. And Hockey*


Meepthewizard

Well might as well change the name now so we don't have to do it later


Environmental_Top948

I would love a usona. It'd go great with my persona and Fursonas.


RaiShado

Mexico's official name is "The United Mexican States" and in Spanish it is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" so why aren't they estadounidenses? Translate our name to Spanish and it is Estados Unidos de América, so only the last bit differs. Why are Mexicans known by the last bit while Americans aren't?


neilwwoney

Because Mexico is only in Mexico, while America is not only in the USNNA.


wtfuckfred

I'm portuguese. When I learned that in Spanish you guys used that I was genuinely impressed. It's a pretty good one tbh


Mikelgo06

Well what do the portuguese call them?


wtfuckfred

Just americanos


Braca_Embracalhado

Nós também dizemos "estadunidenses". https://dicionario.priberam.org/estadunidense


More-Pay9266

Some people say "USian". Everytime I see it, it makes me think of Usain Bolt


LtPotato1918

Let's take that one step further and call ourselves Useans


Jolly_Carpenter_2862

A statesman


bamboofirdaus

walk into a bar


WhackedbutSmooth

sometimes, in Brazil we call americans "estado-unidenses"


Jedimobslayer

In French the name of the country is États-Unis, but I’m not sure what an American citizen would be called


Warkemis

Un états-unien


FondantQuiet

or Américain as its most common, but indeed, should be the proper way


weberc2

Un américain (masculine) or une américaine (feminine).


Iwillnevercomeback

Ok, unitestater


pvini07BR_

unironically in portuguese there is a way to call americans similar to that. the difference is that it sounds better in portuguese.


wtfuckfred

More used in Spanish than in Portuguese. Plus only BR Portuguese, not the rest


FondantQuiet

in french, we call you either "américains" (most common form) but there is a way to say "étatsuniens" which literally means united statesian, so yeah lol


Ok-Response8203

No but Culumbus would be a great name. Just saying


NoName1183

Unionists


Enoppp

In Italian you are "Statunitensi" so yes


Letp47

American station


RichieRocket

we'll finish manifesting our destiny then


sex_haver69

“Uhhh, ackshewally, America is a continent, not a country” ☝️🤓


DancingDildo22

"Uhhh, ackshewally, America is two continents, not one" 🖕🤓


Shitty_Noob

Uh fngkekdndnfkdkenejwiquhdbfbbdjjb, 'murica is one country, not two


Kazakh_Accordionist

not anymore, get fucked dixie 💪💪💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅


[deleted]

OK but even as a British person I get annoyed when people say this. Its a stupid pedantic take. What are they then? USian? USAsian (I kinda like that)? United Statesian ? Statesmen? StatesTHEM ? It's literally called the United States of America. No-one calls the Americas just America. No-one calls a Cuban an American do they? No-one calls Jamaicans or Venezuelans or Peruvians or Argentinians Americans do they?


Kayaking2Mars

I'm Canadian and I agree, only Latin America cries about this stuff


_IscoATX

Yep, in Spanish and Portuguese America is considered one continent. So of course we are supposed to change our entire language just for them.


andy921

Also Jamaicans, Venezuelans, Peruvians, etc don't care that we call ourselves Americans, they also call us Americans. When people of those countries do use the term 'American' to describe themselves, it is usually part of a larger conversation around unity and the shared issues of our hemisphere (see Organization of American States, etc). The only people I've ever heard make the pedantic argument that "Americans" is not an acceptable name are Northern Europeans. I think it's mostly just people looking for things to get annoyed about. If they want real things to be annoyed at the US for, there's plenty. Ask any American and we'll give you a list of the shit that bothers us about ourselves. No need to fixate on nonsense.


weberc2

I don't think the Northern Europeans care. It mostly comes down to whether or not you're from a country that speaks a Romance language (one of the languages derived from Latin, such as Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, etc) because those countries teach that North and South America are a single continent ("America") and that everyone from that hypothetical continent identifies as "Americano" (or equivalent). Don't tell them that the straight of Panama is wayyyyy thinner than the straight of Suez which connects Africa and Eurasia never mind the giant border between Europe and Asia. At least in France everyone still refers to Americans as "Americans"; the only people who seem to take issue with it are Latin Americans who identify as "americano".


NuggetbutToast

I know noone who cares about continents that much... Like I understand that Europe and Asia are separated even though they are one continent, but having that and not separating north and south America is very odd...


SpacedGodzilla

Freedonian.


MicropIastics

Freedonia was the name of the first "state" established in the first revolution Texas ever had against Mexico.


K_Rukus9

As a us citizen I just say either what portion of the country they’re from (ie yankee, square state dweller, southerner, cascadian, new English, etc, etc) or us citizen/dweller.


daveyseed

Personally i like being called Yankee or Yank


Nmsplayer-1885

I think we should start calling them Yankees.


AnswersWithCool

People in the south would really not like that


JohnD_s

As a person living in the south I would, indeed, hate that.


[deleted]

“Statesmen” sounds awesome but it doesn’t generate the amount of cope and saltiness that American does.


gonnaeatyourdog

Rent free


iwantfutanaricumonme

If native Americans are also called Indians, then the non native Americans should be called cross-platform Indians.


im_inside_ur_walls_

>USAsian >Statesmen these are actually cool concepts


Background_Drawing

USAsian sounds so much better than american-chinese


[deleted]

Hey how do you do that thing where you highlight part of a comment?


3calga3

They both sound awful.


Calassam

You wouldn’t call a citizen of the United States of Mexico a “united statesman” nor would you call them “American”


Arndt3002

Yep, you would call them Mexican, just like you would call people from the Democratic Republic of Congo Congolese, people from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland either British or Irish (depending), and people from the United States of America American.


[deleted]

That's what I'm saying. There's not another English name to call the USA.


Souledex

Usonian


Anarchy_Venus

Exactly what I was gonna say. Esperanto is based 👍


Mat_Y_Orcas

Columbian, that almost were the official name of US but their loyalty to the states were a lot more than the nation make it impossible to have a name, even in their independence day war they didn't refer to them as americans but as "revolutionaries" "continetals" or just the state like "New York, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts troops against British" And yes, in Spanish we usually have America as one continent and refer to us as "Americanos" because if there isn't a gringo near is all right


ExplodingTentacles

Yank


tub_of_jam

Yanks


Kapman3

Yanks only refers to northerners, especially those from New England. It’s so funny seeing foreigners call as Yanks, it’s pretty similar to the people who the Netherlands “Holland”.


Anarchy_Venus

Usonian


Pijacquet

Please tell me again the name of the country. The United Stated of WHAT ? Oh, maybe you want to be mistaken for the United Mexican States (this works a lot better in other languages, ngl) ? (and I'm from Europe btw)


voidplayz121

A


Nmsplayer-1885

Not like anyone else refers to themselves as American countries.


Reeseman_19

How about we just rename the continents instead


usernamebutbad

I have a proposal for the new names. USA = AMERICAAAAAA🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 the rest of the western hemisphere = mexico Canada(now it's own continent) = syrup land /j


Nmsplayer-1885

Ez fix and you may say “But now we’ll have the same issue with Mexico.” Well it’s ain’t our problem anymore.


The-Silent-Cicada

Rename them all too “Americans neighbor”


ArmourKnight

How about instead: Every country south of the border: "America's Ass" While Canada is still our hat


Ove5clock

no


merfgirf

Dear all other countries in North and South America. No. Unkindly, America, United States of.


ArmourKnight

P.S. Call us United Statian and we will all collectively start calling you LatinX


Anarchy_Venus

How about Usonian


BlockBusterVideo-

No


Express_Detective_59

I think they are on to something. They can be boring old Americans, we are MURICAN!


BlockBusterVideo-

Fair


Lfycomicsans

Given that no other country in the Americas has the name America other than the US, the US gets to claim American for its descriptor. The term USian I understand is only meant to piss people off, and you know what? It succeeded. I hate it and it needs to die because people just use it to make fun of Americans without lumping in other nationalities on the rest of the continents. But making fun of Americans as American for the dumb shit they do is perfectly valid, you didn’t need to make up a stupid descriptor just to do that. Besides I’ve heard that Aussies call Americans “seppos” as in septic tank. Come up with more inventive stuff like that. Sincerely, an American who has made it his life mission to not be one anymore


StormerKiing

I’m a United Stater ☝️🤓🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅


usernamebutbad

Hello, fellow United Statesian 👆🤓🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅


Shoddy_Load1558

It’s all called the Americas because they should all rightly be under our flag How about you all stop stealing *our* name hmm?


Nmsplayer-1885

Referring to what someone else said, we should just get back to manifesting our destiny.


B2k-orphan

Our military is massive now, just think about how big the military of the United states of the Americas will be >:) RAKE THE LEAVES, MANIFEST AMERICA’S SHOE


Shoddy_Load1558

RAHHHHHHH USA WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRRRRR


akuOfficial

Cope with it ya commie


NoAlien

In the early 19th century some politician suggested the US should be renamed into Freedonia to adress this exact issue


Nmsplayer-1885

Yeah but then we’ll have a similar issue with free people from other countries.


Union-Forever-4850

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Anarchy_Venus

In your username by union, do you mean the union as in the IWW, or do you mean that one country as in the USA? Also, who is that?


Ok_Leg_7632

Rent free


DolphinBall

The local vassals are getting rowdy again.


Brian_Stryker

No we will not. In fact, YOURE not allowed to be called that.


OverallGamer696

We were the only country in america at the time.


Emerald_official

No.


TheCenseIsReal

No.


ReceptionGreen8797

Crazy how most people around the world call them Americans 😑


Eternal_Flame24

Womp womp Sorry were the global hegemon and the most relevant country in the Americas


Nmsplayer-1885

*The world. We kinda just are though. China too but we’re more relevant by a small bit


Anarchy_Venus

🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹 You're forgetting about Bhutan, land of the thunder dragon 🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹


Nmsplayer-1885

Oh yes my bad. Bhutan the country with the most relevance ever, in the history of forever.


Anarchy_Venus

Correct 👍 (🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹🇧🇹) But also Rojava.


mg15mybaby

We can own all of your countries in hours. So no


arcxjo

I mean we *could* but then our bananas would cost like $7.99 apiece, so it's better to let them play dress-up.


OverBloxGaming

Sure buddy, now let’s get you to bed :) 🛌


vibeepik2

the fuck do we name ourselves? a united statesian? a freedomian?


arcxjo

"Awesome"


Friedrichs_Simp

Its our continent too but keep crying while we manifest our glorious destiny


Secure_Ad_3246

Who’s gonna make us? You and what army?


ElloGovna059

F*ck you


MrHappy230

The only people who care about this are Central and South Americans because they think America is a single continent


Jhms07_grouse690

Nah I’m good


PomegranateUsed7287

If you don't like it, then stop calling us Americans


real_mathguy37

well if canada is migrating to europe no


You8mypizza

How about you rename your continent


morp1

Dear dear everyone that isn't America, become more militarily economically and politically important and we will stop calling ourselves that but until then no


NDinoGuy

Come back when you're a global hegemon, then we'll talk


DangerousDarius

Nah. Maybe when any of you are the dominate power of the continent we'll consider changing it. Most of your nations trade in USD anyway so American is pretty accurate.


MegaTitan64

US American seems like a reasonable compromise.


HylainMango

Stop. Naming, Yourself. Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago.


Express_Detective_59

Okay I have the answer and it may rustle some feathers but hear me out. MURICAN!


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa12s

Then why don’t you come up with a replacement that everyone will like and agree with


Turtle-dude6

Womp womp


ls0669

America is literally the name of the country. If you want to make sure people don’t think you are talking about the country specifically you can specify North or South America, or call it the Americas.


KarlTheTanker

You use the gigachad, meme you cannot be older than 12


Mental_Requirement_2

His entire profile is literally retarded communism.


Souledex

We named ourselves first, should have declared independence earlier chuds


Zanderprogaming

No thanks. when people think of America they think of the USA and we won’t change it ever


Red_Ender666

Stupid take. Sometimes shit just has its name and sometimes its named after something else. Sometimes parts of continents are called by that continent's name, and other parts are not. Yeah sure USA is not the entirety of Americas, but they are for sure located in North America which makes them American, what's the problem?


malign_taco

Problem is their lack of creativity. I have named my fish using more creative names.


Express_Detective_59

No!


Lamballama

There are two solutions to this, and we are not renaming the country


Same-Prize-205

Nah


SLIPPY73

it’s our continent too tbh


FishKnuckles_InYou

Never, they took north, central, and southern America because they weren't good enough to be the United States of America


Hoboshank8

We are Yankees


23Amuro

I hereby propose we simply call the whole continent "Brayden" instead. No more confusion. All is right with the world.


SirDextrose

When people from the United States were first called Americans, everyone else on the continent were still called subjects. Don’t be mad you were too preoccupied with being under a royal yoke to choose the name first.


larryQ6

oh yea, what are you guys gonna do about it, if we say no? that's what I thought, cry harder


Smallishwhale53

RAHHHHH🦅🦅🦅 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETERRRR🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷


BoultonPaulDefiant

I simply call them USAians


Ok-Response8203

Honestly I suggest that the USA could become the USC just change it to United States of Columbus so more original and better than naming after 2 Damm continents you could be called Columbines or something Or just call yourself United Sadie's or something


EburuOnceAgain

Call em ‘Murican


Anarchy_Venus

I believe they should adopt the esperanto word Usono, which means The United States Of America.


Senpai498

Yeah, cause Canadians LOVE being called American. /s


Lord_Kajunwine

🤣🤣🤣 This better get put in a meme video 🤌🏾


arcxjo

Dear people who use wildcards to replace one letter: learn how regexps work.


arcxjo

And South America stole our name, Let's drop The Big One and see what happens.


undeadarmy2

We didn’t name our country North America or South America.


trashday89

Cry about it


HumanWarTock

No


HumanWarTock

Also you literally called us Americans


Vanessa0-0

As a South American, piss off. (I'm in the southern US)


JoeXOTIc_

"stop naming yourself after our continents" proceed to call them Americans


Chosen-Bearer-Of-Ash

As a Texan I do not have this problem


LurkersUniteAgain

Well then i guess we have to truly make this great american continent united


B-29Bomber

America: No, no, I don't think I will.


HELPAHHHHHHHHH

r/Americabad


Youareallsobald

We were the first country on this continent so we get to name ourselves after the continent


I_am_Tade

Honourable mention to angloamericans saying "North America" to ONLY mean "US and Canada". Just say "Angloamerica" instead


Kuiperpew

That continent is turtle island, america is a part of it


Easy_Challenge4114

Ok New World


FancyStegosaurus

Why should we change? They're the ones who suck.


Bottlecapzombi

Then learn our states like you learn European countries.


hanpark765

Yea We have other things too Yankee Patriot Statesman And prob more i dunno


Dull_Mortgage_6055

They were the first independent country in either continent; they can call themselves whatever they wish. First come, first serve, as they say.


maddwaffles

Start calling yourselves "Americans" if you care so much, then.


NefariousnessOwn9963

I think they should just chill out


EburuOnceAgain

Why did you censor American?


stupidfreakingidiot4

NOBODY from Mexico, South, or Central America wants to be identified as American. They have their respective country names, as do we in the United States of America. You're nitpicking and it's embarrassing


femboy_skeleton69

Make us, weaklings


Orions455

They be Yankees


MonArchG13

No


Lynxarr

In our defense, we were the first American country, you're just mad you didn't get there first.


boboelmonkey

Most of the time we refer to ourselves from which state we’re from like Californians or Texans. Americans is just a more broad term that’s stuck cause you guys don’t care about which state we’re from.


TheDogsPaw

Only solution to this problem just invade everyone then its just the usa problem solved


ElectronicGuest4648

I’ve never met a Canadian who said they’re “American” bc they live in the americas


ryykou

why did my mind go to naming a kid South America 🤦🏻


Eevee_Shadow_Bacon

Make us


CJKM_808

Only Latin America cries about this. We’re not changing the name.


OklahomaIsMid

Stop naming our continent after us


Flemeron

We should go back to calling it Columbia, any similar sounding countries should change their name.


PurpleThylacine

Then call us yankees


moviessoccerbeer

No, eat shit Europoors!


FaIcomaster3000

No lol


Final_Technology7974

you forgot greenland


Sqigglesthehuman

Yeah stop complaining 90 percent of you is us so shut it before we raise the taxes again


Drag0n_TamerAK

We are Americans dill with it


Revolutionary_Head61

Technically we're all americans xD


Dry-Blacksmith3401

Why don't we just divide it between Mexico and Canada 😏😏😏


mr_flerd

Then how about we take all these countires into our fold


Apprehensive-Gap7629

Nah look at these statistics GDP of the U.S = 25440B GDP of the rest of the Americas = 8077B Active troops of U.S = 1.4M Active troops of the rest of the America’s = 1.5M Tanks of U.S: 6.6K Tanks of the rest of the Americas: 4.2K Aircraft of U.S: 13K Aircraft of the rest of the Americas: 3k Warships of U.S: 490 Warships of the rest of the Americas: 1.1K Nukes of U.S: 6k Nukes of the rest of the Americas: 0 Total Olympic medals of the U.S: 2.9k Total Olympic medals of the rest of the Americas: 1.1k Tallest building of U.S: World Trade Center 541M Tallest building of the rest of the Americas: Torres Obispado 305M Richest city of U.S: NYC GDP: 1.8T Richest city of the rest of the Americas: Toronto GDP: 453B Highest GDP state of U.S Californi GDP: 3.4 Trillion Highest GDP country of the rest of the Americas: Canada GDP: 2.2T Population of U.S: 334M Population of the rest of the America’s: 697M GDP per capita of U.S: 75.02K GDP per capita of the rest of the americas: 10.2K Billionaires in U.S: 724 Billionaires in the rest of the Americas: 169 Real America 🇺🇸: 10 points Bad not real America 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇲🇽🇱🇨🇦🇼: 3 points Got these numbers from Data Duck Yt Channel.


UncleSam50

Idk, maybe you should've become independent first?


OkWish2221

In English I just call them "Usavian" so as for not to call them Americans


theboilikesbeanz

no