▲ 783 ▼ 6 in 10 Canadians say they can never trust Americans the same way again (globalnews.ca) submitted 11 months ago by NightOwl@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca 179 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 child) The first. I don’t even know what the second thing is. 🤷 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 11 months ago (2 children) Ah, Threads and some other lower quality social media are full of people making snarky comments to users from the States, saying something to the effect of “we are also in the Americas, so we’re Americans, you’re a US-ian”. It all basically stems from the fact that in Spanish, the demonym for people from the US is “estadounidense” (United-Statesian) whereas “America” is used to refer to all of North and South America as a regions. People are too dumb to realise “America” has a different connotation in the two languages and it devolves into flame wars. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago Ah gotcha. Not sure why that would devolve into flame wars. I would want to distance myself as far as possible from anything related to the US as possible if I had a choice. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 child) This is almost 100% a latin american thing. They're taught that the americas are a single continent. For some reason they're really stuck on this point as if it's some kind of gotcha (it isn't). Everyone (including them) are aware of what nation is being discussed when we say america/americans. They should just get over it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 point 11 months ago I’m a fan of pointing out that we aren’t even the only United States in North America. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 11 months ago (2 children) Ah, Threads and some other lower quality social media are full of people making snarky comments to users from the States, saying something to the effect of “we are also in the Americas, so we’re Americans, you’re a US-ian”. It all basically stems from the fact that in Spanish, the demonym for people from the US is “estadounidense” (United-Statesian) whereas “America” is used to refer to all of North and South America as a regions. People are too dumb to realise “America” has a different connotation in the two languages and it devolves into flame wars. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago Ah gotcha. Not sure why that would devolve into flame wars. I would want to distance myself as far as possible from anything related to the US as possible if I had a choice. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 child) This is almost 100% a latin american thing. They're taught that the americas are a single continent. For some reason they're really stuck on this point as if it's some kind of gotcha (it isn't). Everyone (including them) are aware of what nation is being discussed when we say america/americans. They should just get over it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 point 11 months ago I’m a fan of pointing out that we aren’t even the only United States in North America. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago Ah gotcha. Not sure why that would devolve into flame wars. I would want to distance myself as far as possible from anything related to the US as possible if I had a choice. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 child) This is almost 100% a latin american thing. They're taught that the americas are a single continent. For some reason they're really stuck on this point as if it's some kind of gotcha (it isn't). Everyone (including them) are aware of what nation is being discussed when we say america/americans. They should just get over it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 point 11 months ago I’m a fan of pointing out that we aren’t even the only United States in North America. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 point 11 months ago I’m a fan of pointing out that we aren’t even the only United States in North America. permalink fedilink source parent