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okay i will try that... thanks


um... i canna speak for anyone else but i am not a big fan of the term usian or its variations... especially since it is coined and used by nonamericans.... and without my permission... there are south americans and north americans and maybe thats the way it will go someday but right now i and my countrypeople are Americans.

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sure, Yanks it is and I refuse to use American as I have Canadian, and Yank relatives and the Canadian's don't like it as they're Americans but they don't come from the US. Also I was introduced to the term USian by a Floridian.

were the floridian a republican or a democrat?

and canadians are not americans they are canadians you used the term canadian to define them and canadian they are.

so what word or words do you use to describe your nationality?

It depends on my mood, it can be British, Mercian, Scottish or, occasionally, English, if is counted as a nationality, rather than an ethnicity I'd mostly say Nordic. During international sporting events like the Rugby World Cup or Six Nations I'm a Scot and p!$$ on the English!

And I'm sorry but Canadians are from America which makes them American.

that's silly






and if it is not silly then it is disrespectful.

which bit?

the part where you decide what i and my countrypersons should call ourselves

But America is not a country, it's several land masses. Insisting that only people from the US are Americans is like saying only people from South Africa are Africans. We could use Meiguroren, which is what the Chinese use to refer to people from the US. As it is I have no problem with not using USian, but unless I'm referring to all peoples from America then it would be rude and highly disrespectful to use the term American.

Couldn't you call them 'US Americans'?
That'd be an excellent name for them.

i guess it would depend on whether you were referring to 'us americans' or 'you americans.'

so i, being an american, would say 'us americans' and you, being nonamerican, would say 'you americans?'

right

i'm confused.

How to un-confuse or de-confuse you?
I know! With dots: U.S. Americans.

I still like the Chinese Meiguroren

Meiguoren is good.
Then I'm a Yingguoren.

wo shi yige Yingguoren ... ... too,

Us hero country persons should stick together

We're hero-country-people, and U.S.Americans are...?

Lovely-country-people

Zhe shi hen hao.

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I think it's:
wo ye shi yige Yingguoren

wo ye shi yige Meiguroren?



wo ye shi yige Meiguroren!