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

["Miguel Farah F." <miguel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Trent Piepho [24/04/2001 21:12] dijo/said:
>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.

Sorry to contradict you, but the term "american" meaning "person from
the continent America" *IS* used.

All this is born from the (sad) fact that USA doesn't have a proper
name.

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