• Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I’m Canadian, and I get super offended when foreigners assume I’m from America.

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        10 months ago

        You forgot to insert the obligatory national sentence ender: “Sorry”.

        You’ll have to be sent off for mandatory re-Caneducation training. Please be sure to arrive wearing your standard issue plaid shirt, and toque. Tim Hortons coffee will be served and there is a 3 three drink minimum.

        Sorry.

        Edit: grammer/clarification.

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        10 months ago

        As a Vermonter, I also get offended when people think I’m from America.
        They are correct and I’m not happy about that fact.

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          Yeah, that’s how we feel, until we actually go to America and interact with Americans. There is a stark difference between the cultures that isn’t actually apparent until it’s met face to face.

          Americans are a unique combination of arrogant, loud, and stupid. Not all of them of course, but it’s a large enough amount that you notice a difference when you cross the border.

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              10 months ago

              Depends on the culture, some consider America as a single entity. North Americans seem to prefer to consider themselves as a whole continent.

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                “America” as a single entity, devoid of qualifiers, is the entirety of North and South America. A massive and diverse swath of Earth with very little in common. I don’t see how that’s a useful definition, and most English-speakers have agreed so “America” instead is shorthand for the giant country with “America” in its name.

                We use descriptors because they help. “The Americas” is the whole thing, “North America” is everything from Panama to Canada plus some distant colony islands because this is politics not tectonics.

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                  10 months ago

                  That’s the common use in Latin cultures. That’s why I wanted to provide this different point of view.

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                10 months ago

                There is only one country in the Americas that has America in the title. Everyone is aware of the continents, but only pompous douchers bring up the “technically, Canada and Mexico are American too” nonsense.

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                  10 months ago

                  What if instead of the others being pompous douchers, some people are too self-centred (or nationalists, or imperialists ?) to realize that others may not understand or appreciate how some country-men are monopolizing the demonym of their continent. It seems South Africans are succeeding in not doing that just fine.

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                    Yep that all sounds super douchey. 99% of people who know the United States and the American continents, will know exactly where you are talking about if you say America. Sorry that displeased you in all your eccentricities and fancy words, but thems the breaks.

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      I tell them I’m an American when asked.

      People are fundamentally the same regardless of where they live, and anyone that judges anyone else based on their nationality is being an ignorant jackass. I handle it as such with the appropriate tact for the situation – most people are cool.

      The ones that aren’t are morons and not worth wasting time on.