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submitted 4 months ago by atro_city@fedia.io to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

Language can be powerful in shaping ideas and the US has convinced the entire world that they are the "Americans" and everybody else on the 2 continents aren't.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io -1 points 4 months ago

No one wants to be called American because the yanks appropriated the term and give it a bad name. Do you think Iranians want to be called Aryans? Technically, they are the original, and true Aryans. Same for the swastika. You think Hindus and Buddhists enjoy using them outside of Asia or in Europe?

The term American has to be reclaimed to mean anybody from North or South America, but until that is done, we should stop calling yanks "Americans".

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