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2012-12-23 07:51 7381996 Anonymous (depositphotos_2996302-USA-flag.jpg 1024x791 192kB)
What about people of the USA being called americans ? America is composed by lots of countries, not only the USA. People from the USE are called northamericans, not americans ! German: Nordamerikaner Portuguese: norte-americano Dutch: noord-amerikaanse Swedish: nordamerikanska

2 min later 7382042 Anonymous
norte-americano = americano = USA

4 min later 7382061 Anonymous (USA-Pride-39033723925.jpg 2250x2250 501kB)
Nothing to do with *pic attached* of course !

5 min later 7382075 Anonymous (ohboyherewego.jpg 490x769 91kB)


5 min later 7382084 Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_countries As in "not only the USA"

6 min later 7382095 Anonymous
North America also includes Mexico, Canada and Greenland.

7 min later 7382112 Anonymous (1352640082109.jpg 373x359 20kB)
We're called Usonians you indignant asshole. How would you like it if I called you Iberian, even though you're from Spain? You know, that's just like Europe -- to assume that because we live on this continent, we don't eve have a country -- well, guess what! IT'S THE UNITED STATES, INHABITED BY USONIANS, NOT AMERICANS! Fucking disrespectful to the Canadians and Mexicans that live in North America, too. Typical.

7 min later 7382117 Anonymous
Deal with it OP, American means citizen of USA

7 min later 7382120 Anonymous (1346375943775.jpg 492x641 41kB)
In English we call people from the US Americans, it's been that way since the British and Americans decided on it back in the 18th Century, deal with it.

8 min later 7382135 Anonymous
Deal with it butthurt beaner scum

9 min later 7382150 Anonymous (dealwithitunchained.gif 500x211 631kB)
The proper demonym for people from the United States is American.

10 min later 7382154 Anonymous
In French we call them Etats-Uniens (United-Statians).

10 min later 7382160 Anonymous
Kingdom of the Netherlands = Netherlands Kingdom of Morocco = Morocco United States of America = America

11 min later 7382180 Anonymous
as in everything, USA remains the self-proclaimed center of the world. May as well call yourself the Universians.

12 min later 7382193 Anonymous
>>7382160 South Africa = Africa

13 min later 7382201 Anonymous (spurdo amerika.jpg 246x205 12kB)
>the official English word for a citizen of the United States of America is "American" -every possible source Just like the people from the United Kindom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are called "British" or "Briton". It just is like that, deal with it.

14 min later 7382213 Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGbdq7Jj3lY

14 min later 7382215 Anonymous
>>7381996 USAians are the correct term. (nordamerikaner, not nordamerikanska)

14 min later 7382217 Anonymous
>>7382193 >Republic of South Africa >South African

16 min later 7382234 Anonymous
united states of america = yhdysvallat in finnish (united states) american = yhdysvaltalainen (united statian)

17 min later 7382261 Anonymous
>>7382213 Classic. >Which countries should we invade next? >Russia, China, Indonesia, Brazil, Canada!

18 min later 7382270 Anonymous
>>7381996 actually we call it "US-Amerikaner" here. No one says "Nordamerikaner"

19 min later 7382291 Anonymous
>>7381996 >south America South Americans >Mexico Mexicans >Canada Canadians >United States of America Americans. What else would is be Unitedians? Statesians? You don't call people from the UK/Great britain Greatians.

23 min later 7382365 Anonymous
>>7382234 And Jenkki means any USA:n citizen, because we do not really separate between south and north USA.

32 min later 7382490 Anonymous
>>7382291 >Americans. What else would is be Unitedians? Jänkare.

35 min later 7382539 Anonymous
>tfw american

36 min later 7382549 Anonymous
>>7382234 >implying every other news or schoolbook doesn't use the word "amerikkalainen"

36 min later 7382551 Anonymous
>Waaah! America is actually 2 whole continents, not just the US! http://www.flickr.com/photos/yire_shalom3000/107679049/ Soon....

58 min later 7382945 Anonymous
>>7382154 No, you don't. Only politically-corrected faggots like you do.

59 min later 7382959 Anonymous
>>7382180 >self proclaimed but everybody around the world calls us 'Americans' or refers to USA as 'america'

59 min later 7382964 Anonymous
>>7382154 >In French we call them Etats-Uniens (United-Statians). Yes, but if you use it people will tell you that you hate America, see >>7382945

1 hours later 7382974 Anonymous
>let me tell you how you should call yourself and what words you should be using in English

1 hours later 7382985 Anonymous
>>7382964 My Spanish teacher said Etats-Uniens.

1 hours later 7382994 Anonymous
>>7382959 >but everybody around the world calls us 'Americans' >estadounidense

1 hours later 7383022 Anonymous (laughing_mourinho.jpg 630x400 53kB)
brazilians say estadunidenses

1 hours later 7383028 Anonymous
>>7382994 Refer to >>7382217 and >>7382160

1 hours later 7383069 Anonymous
>Etats-Uniens All these exonyms of American look retarded and third world.

1 hours later 7383080 Anonymous
I say we go back to naming ourselves by the state we're from. It is how we did it before our civil war.

1 hours later 7383112 Anonymous
>>7381996 Y los canadienses que son? Los norteamericanos son todos los de Norte América. Los de EEUU son estadounidenses.

1 hours later 7383121 Anonymous
>>7383080 How about just "Citizen of the World"

1 hours later 7383126 Anonymous
>>7381996 German: Federal Republicers, since Germania includes countries that are not part of the Federal Republic of Germany. Calling Germans Germans is worse than Hitler. Portuguese: you mean Porto-occupied Western Iberia? Imperialist pig. Dutch: eymologically means 'German', which is wrong. Should be called Netherkingdomonians. Swedish: racist against Jamtlanders, not to mention imperialist. East Scandinavian is the proper term.

1 hours later 7383154 Anonymous
>America is composed by lots of countries, not only the USA Nah, only one you silly beaner.

1 hours later 7383191 Anonymous
Show some mercy, Spain. USAians cannot even into normal country name. (USA! USA! USA!)

1 hours later 7383207 Anonymous
The technical term is United Statian, but that sounds fucking stupid and pretentious. In North America, we refer to the continents as North and South America, and the entire landmass as the Americas. When you here/say Americans, it is understood that it means citizens of the United States of America.

1 hours later 7383215 Anonymous
>>7382985 Spaniards and spanish speakers are retarded gonzalos.

1 hours later 7383233 Anonymous
>>7383207 >United Statian It's not the technical term if it doesn't exist and has never been used in any official sense.

1 hours later 7383235 Anonymous
>>7383207 >The technical term is United Statian, [citation needed]

1 hours later 7383271 still not OP
Non-North Americans never seem to understand why Americans are called Americans. >Hurr durr everyone in NA is an american i know this because of my stage 5 autism cancer

1 hours later 7383296 Anonymous (dates_established.png 1210x630 90kB)
>what is history >what is convention OP confirmed for extremely autistic. Pic related.

1 hours later 7383311 Gilipollas Integral Número 874409
Estadounidenses or Retrasados Mentales.

1 hours later 7383369 Anonymous (13509332275.jpg 400x302 28kB)
Why do Hispanics feel compelled to share their every trivial and brown thoughts? It's as if they think anyone gives a fuck.

1 hours later 7383445 Anonymous (1343920059232.jpg 396x594 28kB)
>>7383311 I call them niggers.

1 hours later 7383524 Anonymous
>>7381996 >>7382270 >>actually we call it "US-Amerikaner" here. No one says "Nordamerikaner" Actually, I have rarely heard anybody call them "US-Amerikaner" most of the time we call them "Amis" or Americans. When we talk about Canadians we say "Kanadier" and when we talk about Mexicans we call them "Mexicaner". If anybody says Americans everybody thinks of US-Americans anyway. So, calling the people of the USA Americans is ok from my perspective.

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