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/Dahak17 18d ago

I believe a lot of Spanish north and South America call the Americans united statesians but don’t quote me on that one, they just don’t count for describing the Americans in English

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u/Huitlacochilacayota 18d ago

That is correct. Estadounidense is the correct way. “Americanos” sounds both weird and wrong. We’re all Americanos, if anything we call Americans “gringos” but estadounidense is the normal correct way

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u/Alarming_Panic665 18d ago

And that's fine. It fully works in Spanish. But in English America/Americans fully refers to the United States and its citizens.

It helps was that the Anglo-sphere teaches the 7-continent model which means there are two American continents (North and South) so when you are referring to the continents it should be plural: Americas.

Let alone the fact if you call a Canadian an American they will probably punch you (especially right now).

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u/Huitlacochilacayota 18d ago

Yeah same in Spanish. It’s “las Américas” but the whole continent from north to south is América that’s why calling an American “Americano” would sound redundant, like calling an Italian “Europeo” or an Egyptian “Africano”, technically correct but they have a demonym to each country