fossilesqueThat's how the world works.
StillAliveYes.
Blame Americans.
Comments like this are so ironic because this level of ignorance makes you sound like a Trump voter. You’d fit in really well here amongst the 70 million people who voted for this.
“America” is three continents. And even in the USA this regime is deeply unpopular, hence all the protests. I don’t think we’re all that great at resistance yet, but we are trying.
The wealthy elite in the USA have successfully displaced the blame by convincing the people to fight each other instead of them, and here you are blaming “Americans” instead of the people actually responsible.
When someone says American, they mean a USA resident. I don’t know anyone who would assume they mean a Canadian or Mexican, since you use those terms for them.
That was only one of the points I made. Since you ignored the rest of my comment, and mentioned my username, it really doesn’t seem like you’re saying this in good faith.
People assuming “American” means resident of the USA is a problem.
Why? You have North Americans and South Americans to cover the others?
What else would you need to include in the term Americans?
North America is Canada and the USA. And there’s also central America, which isn’t included in those two terms.
It’s a problem because ignorant USians think of themselves as the center of everything, and referring to them as “Americans” further entrenches this selfish world view.
In English, the correct demonym for a citizen of the United States of America is “American”. There have been others that somewhat are accepted but are not universal like “Yankee” which half the population would take great offense to.
It isn’t centering the world on us to call ourselves Americans, it’s the only thing that works in the language and is accepted by everyone it applies to. Call a Canadian an “american” and watch how quickly they correct you.
I’ve seen people propose “United statesian” but there 2 problems with that, first it does not flow well in English, second that doesn’t actually fix the problem since there’s still be ambiguity with people living in the United Mexican States.