[Freeciv-Dev] Re: "Americans" versus "United States"

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Paul Zastoupil wrote:
> 
> I used the 'arrogant' comment, but I didn't mean to start a flame war.
> "American" is bad when refering to people from the United States.  I,
> myself, am from the United States, and rather proud, but I try not to
> be arrogant.  So it wasn't an arrogant euro bashing, however my last
> name might appear :)
> 
> It's a difficult situation, I am not sure of the best solution.  We refer
> to ourselves as 'americans' but this is clearly incorrect as there are
> many other 'americans' we mean to exclude when using that term.

I don't think peoples' normal usage of American is that pedantic.  People from
Canada call themselves Canadian, people from Mexico call themselves Mexican,
people from Brazil call themselves Brazilian.  Nobody uses the term American
to mean people from the continents of North or South America.