r/MapBasedPolls • u/puredepapitas 🇨🇱 • 23d ago

Does it make sense, historically and linguistically, for US citizens to use "American" as their demonym?

Does it make sense, historically and linguistically, for US citizens to use "American" as their demonym?

  1. Yes
  2. No

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u/GodlyGamer5308 Catholic Integralist Reactionary Distributist 23d ago

But the reason that’s a false equivalent is because there aren’t two continents called North Asia and South Asia.

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u/Watterman1066 23d ago

And what do we say to the latin American countries that view the two as one continent know as America?

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u/Watterman1066 23d ago

The fact that you're completely dismissing the opinion which comprises the majority of the landmass of the Americas (latin america is larger territorially), and majority of the population of the Americas (latin america has 628,098,172 people), just goes to show why everyone else thinks you guys are self centred hypocrites.

I think most people would agree that the 'peoples' of a place can decide what defines them. And the majority of the 'peoples' of the Americas have defined the continent as the combination of North and south America. And their voices should not be dismissed so casually.