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3mo ago

I don't think translation is necessary...

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Everyone in the Americas who isn’t in the USA has given up trying to explain to them. They aren’t capable.
- Nobody in Canada wants to be called American.
  This is a language and continent model issue, the lack of understanding is not in the side of the Americans or the rest of the anglosphere.
- And what if they decided to start calling themselves Earthlings and use it to describe only themselves specifically?

Confusingly, Mexico's official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. You could accurately describe a Mexican as Estadounidense, if you wanted to be a pedant.
- There's no continent named Mexico, so I think things will be ok for now
  
  But there's a Gulf! Oh wait nvm.
  
  There's no continent named America either, so that is not confusing.
  Those on the continent of North America are north Americans, those on the continent of South America are south Americans, only those from the USA are just American.
  The Americas are two completely different continents, with two distinct continental plates, connected by an isthmus.

I was expecting a cup of coffee
- No, guapo uwu

I think a little translation is necessary. I don't speak it.
- Unitedstatesian.
  Northamerican.
  American.

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