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2013-01-09 07:52 7703045 Anonymous (yankee.jpg 1500x1500 214kB)
Why do non-Americans seem to think we're all yankees? Is there a reason for it?

9 min later 7703139 Anonymous
Ignorance.

9 min later 7703149 Anonymous
"I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut -- anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees" - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain Americans are 'Yankees' to foreigners New Englanders are 'Yankees' to Americans Blue blood Mayflower decendant types are 'Yankees' to New Englanders And so it goes

10 min later 7703157 Anonymous (1351500382691.png 919x737 167kB)
lol fukn rekt faggs

12 min later 7703179 Anonymous
>>7703139 XDDD

20 min later 7703247 Anonymous
It happens in all countries I think; I've heard the Swiss tend to call Germans "Saxons".

25 min later 7703292 Anonymous
They just don't realize how insulting it is.

27 min later 7703317 Anonymous
>>7703045 Yank is a name, just like canuk or aussie, it's a way of calling you, we don't think you're all really yanks. Unless they are like >>7703139 said.

27 min later 7703322 Anonymous
>>7703292 Speak for yourself, buddy. Are you a Southerner?

30 min later 7703350 Anonymous
>>7703292 It's not insulting. The only people who get insulted are faggot Dixies. Everyone else knows that foreigners just aren't aware of the difference.

32 min later 7703371 Anonymous
Because we learned this way.

33 min later 7703380 Anonymous
well if you would have a shorter name and not something like a northamerican we would call you by it... but "north american" is fucking long so we need a shorter version. But we are actually used to use the word "gringo" more than yankee

33 min later 7703381 Anonymous
if you don't call me a yank, I will be offended. I am a yankee. I was raised a yankee. I am a yankee's fan.

34 min later 7703396 Anonymous
>>7703045 I don't know. Why does everyone think Aussies mate with spiders?

34 min later 7703400 Anonymous
>>7703396 I've seen those pictures. You can't lie to me, Australia.

36 min later 7703414 Anonymous
>>7703380 >But we are actually used to use the word "gringo" more than yankee Even for people who are not white?

37 min later 7703425 Anonymous
>>7703381 That's fine. Enjoy your deli sandwiches and shitty sport. But don't expect the rest of us to want to be lumped in with you.

37 min later 7703427 Anonymous
>>7703380 1.does every spanish speaking country use word gringo? 2. does every outsider is gringo or just yankees?

40 min later 7703452 Anonymous
>>7703414 gringo started when your army invaded latin america at 50-70s, and people started wrtittng in the walls "green go home", then they used just the term "gringo" and forgot why it was created... Actually I saw some people calling gringos to european people and asian people. Its used to refer U.S or random foreigner people on the streets

40 min later 7703456 Anonymous
Because Yankees are the american master race that dominates the country. They were the original freedom makers. Based Lincoln *claps*

41 min later 7703461 Anonymous
>>7703425 look at this dixie scum. i bet he wasn't one of the original 13 colonies faggot. we took pride in that name in the revolution.

41 min later 7703466 Anonymous
>>7703425 It's ironic that Boston is more culturally yankee than New York.

42 min later 7703478 Anonymous
>>7703456 Yankees are shit race whose only only redeeming feature is they're not quite as big an economic drain as the South.

44 min later 7703493 Anonymous (ImustbeinArgentina.jpg 225x224 5kB)
>Foreigners call all Americans yankees as a perjorative term >Actual yankees don't give a fuck. Southern US butthurt. >>7703380 >African America goes down to bolivia >"Sup gringo" >hfw

45 min later 7703497 Anonymous
>>7703478 >New England and New York >an economic drain at all >not funding the whole fucking thing

45 min later 7703499 Anonymous
>>7703414 Yes because the USA isn't a full white country. Every american is called gringo except mexicans americans we call them chicanos

49 min later 7703549 Anonymous
>>7703497 >implying it's not on the backs of hard-working westerners

50 min later 7703555 Anonymous
Is there a word for people in the west like there's yankees and dixies in the east?

52 min later 7703576 Anonymous
>>7703549 whatthefuckdoesthatevenmean?

52 min later 7703582 Anonymous
>>7703549 it isn't. NY and NE literally carry this country with Texas

53 min later 7703593 Anonymous
>>7703555 Queers

55 min later 7703612 Anonymous
>>7703555 yeah, faggots

56 min later 7703622 Anonymous
Ni är alla jänkare.

57 min later 7703626 Anonymous (jenkki_yankee.jpg 800x533 27kB)
Blame your own media and advertisement industry for narrowly focusing on being Yankee as a key feature of the American lifestyle when the West was starting to rise and receive influence from the US. Dallas, Dynasty etc. Hell, the most popular bubble gum in Finland is still Jenkki (Yankee), since 1951 of its introduction a year before Coca-Cola landed here, then advertised with Texan guys and girls all over the pleace, now having no "yankee" relation in its brand vision at all.

58 min later 7703644 Anonymous
>>7703626 Texas isn't a Yankee state bro. If anything they're Dixie, but they're usually just called Texan.

59 min later 7703653 Anonymous
>Southerners >Real human beans

1 hours later 7703700 Anonymous
>>7703644 Then the oil rich cowboy was the epitome of the wealthy American and a Yankee was a recognizable name to identify an American, and it has stuck.

1 hours later 7703731 Anonymous (holland.gif 550x618 43kB)
Same reason people think Holland is the same as the Netherlands.

1 hours later 7703758 Anonymous
>>7703731 or some reason people some people think german is called dutch

1 hours later 7703772 Anonymous (6states of the usa.png 1749x1740 250kB)
same reason nobody knows your states. their is just no reason to know the other side.

1 hours later 7703778 Anonymous
>>7703758 >implying it's not Dutchland in your language

1 hours later 7703781 Anonymous
>>7703758 I'd like to confuse foreigners when they start that shit. Call Germany DEUTSCHLAND and the Netherlands DUTCHLAND. See >>7703778

1 hours later 7703806 Anonymous
>>7703778 Well, its not.

1 hours later 7703809 Anonymous
>>7703772 We had to learn all 50 states in high school + all of the state capitals. I got 50/50 on both! Now I can't even remember the 50 states every time... Moral of the story, drink less.

1 hours later 7703843 Anonymous
>>7703809 why so ameriboo finland? >>7703731 It's because Holland is the only relevant one.

1 hours later 7703849 Anonymous
Sometimes we in Poland call Germans 'Swabian'. It's offensive of course. We are also used to call Russians 'Moscowian'.

1 hours later 7703856 Anonymous
>>7703849 >Moscowian Shouldn't that be "Muscovite"?

1 hours later 7703865 Anonymous
>>7703809 Fuck, we don't even learn the capitals here any more. Hardly any of them matter.

1 hours later 7703868 Anonymous
>>7703849 Why is swabian offensive? Any reason?

1 hours later 7703900 Anonymous
>>7703843 I don't know, it was just a test we had one day to prepare for and then a few random states and capitals in the final test of that course thrown in. Mind you, we also had to learn all capitals and countries of the world on the next course.

1 hours later 7703949 Anonymous
>>7703868 It compares you to a person from Swabia.

1 hours later 7703953 Anonymous
>>7703849 Don't you call them "kacapai (kacapy)" as we do?

5 hours later 7706483 Anonymous
>>7703045 You are all yanks. Te term was used to describe Americans a decade before the revolution. You were yanks before America as a country existed.

5 hours later 7706637 Anonymous
>>7703427 >1.does every spanish speaking country use word gringo? It varies, for example here we use it for blond people. In Mexico is for any non-hispanic citizen from USA and perhaps Canada. 2. does every outsider is gringo or just yankees? No, just people from USA. Yankee is a derogative, the friendly/neutral version is "Estadounidense" (United Statian) or "Norteamericano" (North American.

5 hours later 7706650 Anonymous
>>7703949 I'd rather be called a Swabian than anything from Preußen

14 hours later 7714778 Anonymous
Damn Yankees get all the attention.

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