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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent.

I didn't know that, thanks.

Nobody should tell a people what they are allowed to call themselves in their own language

Look man, I'm not american and I didn't ask the question to create some debate about the ethics or whatsoever. I just wanted to know if there was a specific word for that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (16 children)

First off, this wasn't supposed to be an argument, just a question. My native language has a specific word for them (and some other languages have too) and I got curious if english itself had such a thing.

Latin America people got pissed off

Maybe it's because people say "America" and everybody instantly thinks of the USA, even though you're just another country in the whole continent? For these people you are stealing the word "american" and changing its meaning. People from Asia have the word "asian", people in Europe got "european", people in Africa got "african", but we? We don't have a meaningful word anymore. And I'm not saying it's your fault or even it's a fault of your founding fathers. I'm just trying to tell you why these people get mad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, basically every language has a specific word for US citizens, except english? LOL

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

AFAIK, the word "gringo" is used by latinos to refer to anyone from other countries, not specifically US citizens. But yeah, definitely gringo

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

First off, thank you for your great response.

And yeah, I kinda get that "United States" is just a title, but in my native language (portuguese) we have a specific word for americans: "estadunidense", which basically means "person born in the USA"

I was just wondering if there was a similar word in english that could be used specifically to these people, just like we have in portuguese. But again, thanks for your answer.

Also, fun fact: Brazil was actually called "United States of Brazil" for a short period, and our flag looked like a copy of yours, but in yellow and green. But then our king (thankfully) decided to go just by "Brazil"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here. Found in the article, as an hyperlink.

Page 10 contains info about the participants. Pages 12 - 33 contains the data you might be interested in. There's also some information about the methodology they used.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, sure. Totally different from having backdoors to the NSA or collecting massive amounts of personal data for targeted ads.

EDIT: You can't trust ANY company if your concern is privacy; your data is just too profitable (for them) to sit there untouched.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think its about posting actual news, but to have something they can monetise through ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Humans are the closest thing to a demon alive" - Migi

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I could tell you how to stop them, but I don't look good in orange

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And a really good song

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He's a billionaire, probably thinks he pays us peasants too much for what we deliver, and would absolutely replace us for slaves if he could

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