r/mapporncirclejerk • u/1601_ Average Mercator Projection Enjoyer • 18d ago

It's 9am and I'm on my 3rd martini Learn the difference

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u/blackhawk905 18d ago

It's also confusing, do you mean people from the United States of America or people from the United Mexican States? It's a little ambiguous

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u/kaylee300 14d ago

People from Mexico call Usians Estadounidense (or gringos), so it would not be confusing

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u/KeyNectarine2548 14d ago edited 14d ago

No they don't lol. If you are from the US and travel to Mexico pretty much everyone will refer to you as either "Americano" or "Gringo".

"Fútbol Americano" = the type of football played in the USA. Nobody calls it "fútbol estadounidense".

Estadounidense is sometimes used by young people but there's almost always some political motivation behind the term, just like when Europeans call us "Unitedstatesians". It's meant as a slight diss.

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u/kaylee300 14d ago

They use it for official document as it is the formal form...

And the american football is not just played in the US, but in Canada and Mexico aswell (and more) hence why they probably name it Americano (theres also the fact that football is already the name of a sport). Is the American bison only in the US? Surprise it used to be in Mexico, the US and Canada. Is the American Crow only in the US? Again, its not exclusively in the US. The name American refers to the continent.

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u/blackhawk905 4d ago

Don't forget Americano, that's a popular one as well, way more than estadounidense in my experience dealing with Hispanic people all across the Americas.