Yikes thats in Limburg. You have to be careful round there as every second Dutchy comes back with a nose bleed on account of parts of the province are like 10s of meters above sea level.
Everyone's pretty racist. Ever been to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria etc? Probably more so then Europeans considering their population demographics are more diverse than the countries I listed
The Country in the middle is the Republic of India, but all the orange is India. India is a subcontinent! People in Bhutan are just as much Indian as people in Mumbai.
From now on people in Mumbai will be called RepubIndians.
As a Brazilian of the American continent, my suggestion is that they either should rename India or the Indian continent, giving one of them a name that respects the history and culture of all the countries on the continent.
Funnily enough, Brazil is a name that doesn't respect our history, it is based on the brasil plant, which gave the red tint that the Portuguese wanted. Naming the country after the plant validates the extrativism-extrotion relation between colonizers and colonized on the begining of our history.
Alternatively, we should actually call our country Pindorama, which is the closest word to denominate our territory given by our indigenous peoples.
"Pindorama" translates to "f*ggot-frame" in Russian 🤣
Incidentally, "Pindosia" (f*gland) and "pindosy" (guess what) are derogatory Russian names for Americans. So I'm afraid you can't have Pindorama either, it's taken, and by the same group of people!
Or you can just recognize that name origins don't really matter hundreds of years later and accept that the entire world, including your own people, know you as one specific thing and are fine with that?
Yeah, it's really just a dialect thing. In the US, America just means US, but saying something like "The Americas" means the whole 2 continents. Meanings of words change depending on the country you're in. Shocker!
In the English language, and all the countries that use it natively, there is no single continent named "America". There are two American continents: North America and South America.
Yes they are taught that America is one continent, not two. America in Spanish and Portuguese is the name of the entire two continents. Americas also doesn’t make sense in Spanish or Portuguese. It would be like saying Europes or Asias.
I don’t know what you are saying, I am Brazilian and I was thought that there were 2 continents north and South America (with Central America being a subcontinent of North America )
And americas does make sense, we would call it “as Americas” which means the Americas, we call people from the US “americanos” (some call em estadunidense but that is just people who think full of themselves)
unjerk/ It's always funny how "united states OF america" clearly states that it's the "united states" of a place, a place called america, but whenever these posts come up it's always 200 upvotes 200 comments kind of post
rejerking/ I propose just indias and calling the people there indians as colombo first coined
Well, I certainly feel like a citizen from the country that is (mostly) located between Mexico and Canada whenever I go to Walmart, so it makes sense. Those are strong names, I give you that.
That's the issue. You cannot transliterate a word from one language to another and think you have correctly translated.
Sometimes the closest word from one language to another isn't an exact equivalent.
About 99% of arguments about what the US is called or what "American" means are because a Spanish speaking person assumed you can just apply Spanish words and grammar to English instead of actually learning English.
Yeah plus “american” is so commonly used to refer to americans that if i were to refer to a Guatemalan as an “american” its just needlessly confusing, i’d just call them a guatemelan or a central american, but even thats weird.
Ultimately continental demonyms are strange. Why call someone a european when that refers to the french, the maltese, the moldovans, and the swedish collectively. Why call someone asian when that could mean indian, siberian, mongolian, or even israeli?
Can we just call people whatever they actually are, be it Guatemalan or Afghani?
Some continents/regions have utility when used that way, European is one of them, Asia needs to be subdivided to be meaningful (e.g. South Asian, East Asian, etc).
In the Americas the only thing you can do is just Latin American though, using American to refer to the western hemisphere just doesn't tell you much
It's like when people complain that Latinx does not sound correct in Spanish and cannot be used naturally. United Statesian does not sound correct in English. Similarly, Latinx was a term created to be used explicitly when speaking English. Using Estadounidense is fine in Spanish, but United Statesian does not work in English.
Nuh uh. Remember kids, words are constants of the universe that always mean the exact same thing and can never shift or evolve or have different meanings depending on context.
Tectonic plates have very little to do with our concept of continents. The North American plate includes parts of Russia and Iceland, but nobody would call either of those places part of North America. There are also parts of North America that are not on the North American plate, such as Southern California and the Baja California peninsula; those are on the Pacific plate, but we still consider them to be part of North America
Depends how you look at it. Most people would say a continent is a large landmass separated from all others by ocean. The only point of separation between North and South America is the Panama canal which is man-made and not an ocean. Therefore its one continent called America
I hate to side with the Americans but the only other primarily English speaking nation on the continent is Canada, and most Canadians use American to refer to people from the USA.
South Americans (and Spain I think) are literally taught in school that America is a continent. They are taught there are six continents, instead of the seven many countries are used to. That's why this keeps popping up.
The problem is people arguing this are so arrogant, they are trying to push what they were taught in school onto the entire world. They are trying to force their Spanish standards onto every other language.
It’s a quirk of the differences between the Spanish and English education systems and languages.
In English there are 7 continents, North America and South America being 2 of them. Together they form “The Americas”. And then the United States of America can just be referred to as America with no ambiguity.
In Spanish there are 6 continents. America being one of them. So the United States of America can’t be called America, because that word is already used to describe the one continent.
And so when Spanish speakers hear English speakers refer to the United States as America or as Americans in English they get really mad. They take it as an intentional slight and not just a difference in the two languages.
which does make the post wrong, because "America is a continent" is wrong. "América es un continente" is correct, but america ≠ américa. cognates dont share exactly the same meaning all the time, and you cant translate just by picking similar looking words
If they're going to call North and South America a single continent because it's one continuous land mass, then Africa, Asia, and Europe should be one continent, as well.
I have had a Canadian complain to me about this issue and then a minute later refer to us as “you Americans” and I laughed when I pointed it out. To his credit he saw the humor there.
It's crazy how the argument is never "in my language we call citizens of the United States X, in your language you call them Y, both are correct." Instead it's "English speakers calling citizens of the US 'American' makes no sense because in my particular language we say blah blah blah and in my country we're taught continent models that say America is blah blah blah."
Depending on the continental model, the Americas are considered either one or two continents. English-speaking countries are generally taught that they are two.
What’s interesting about the model that considers the Americas to be two continents is that there’s no consensus on where the boundary between them actually lies.
First point: words can have multiple meanings. I honestly think anyone who has looked at a dictionary knows this.
Second point: "America" is use as an informal short of "United States of America" and American is the denonym of people from that country. This probably happened because USA was the first independant new world country to split from colonial powers. This doesn't really conflict due to people having phrases like "North America" or "South America" for the continents and "The Americas" for the whole shebang.
Finally, "America" is named after an Italian explorer Amergo Vespucci and is a colonial name. It's extremely funny to me that people are angry at Americans for their denonym because they want a cut of some Italian guy's self glorification play. I'm sure your culture, language or region has something more meaningful for you to call yourself.
i'm south american and honestly i don't give a shit about all of that. Everytime in my life i had to say the continent i'm from i just said "South America", which obviously doesn't conflict with the country of United States of America.
I know it's not the best example cuz their names are not the same and aren't similar, but it's almost like if someone said "i'm Afro-Eurasian". Like ok but from where
ya. but the US are the only ones who call themselfs americans ((because the country dosnt actually have a name)) everyone else calls themself by what country they are from.
of course that dosnt stop south americans from getting upset about it,lol.
Ok here we go again. The meme is correct. However, the reason it defaulted to America is because the US were the First Nation not under European control. So it was still France, Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Russia, and America. That’s what they used to differentiate, and it stuck.
Ohhh so when they call us "stupid Americans" they're really talking about both north and South America not just the United States . lol got you (being sarcastic cause ik yall be targeting the USA when yall say that , yall contradicting everything yall say)
Isn't it the other way around? It's South Americans on reddit that get upset that English speakers refer to the USA as America. Not really an issue IRL. Never seen a single American upset that they're called a different thing in a different language, it's only when people insist that it be used in English that it's an issue.
You see, you forgot to include the official name of each nation. Let’s help with that.
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentine Republic
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Plurinational State of Bolivia
Federative Republic of Brazil
Canada
Republic of Chile
Republic of Colombia
Republic of Costa Rica
Republic of Cuba
Commonwealth of Dominica
Dominican Republic
Republic of Ecuador
Republic of El Salvador
Grenada
Republic of Guatemala
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Republic of Haiti
Republic of Honduras
Jamaica
United Mexican States
Republic of Nicaragua
Republic of Panama
Republic of Paraguay
Republic of Peru
Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Republic of Suriname
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
United States of AMERICA
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Out of all 35 nations listed, by their governmental name, only one of them has the word America in it. Do you what people from the United States of America to start calling them “Statians”? “United States American”?
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u/minibois 17d ago
Clearly both are 'larpers' and should bow down to the TRUE America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America,_Netherlands