For the sake of accuracy I have listed panchos replies in the order he wrote them judge for your self how serious he took the post.
1. I'm a Californian....if someone does not know where that is...let 'em buy a map
2. Piss off I meant.
3. And now after reading all these fine answers for a couple of days now I come up with this.
. .......who cares and what does it really matter?
4. OOOOOh....got me!
what I am interested in. if someone identified that this guy as replying 4 times how can the next one be 6?
Ya missed one yichel.....the one before "Piss off I meant". How about Unistateons (Un i stas eouns)? It rolls off the tongue easily enough?
thank you for keeping me honest
7 or 8....you all are counting beyond my capaality. You will have to help me out.
I'm messing with you all, someday I might grow up.
How about calling ourselves what the rest of the World does to distinguish us from the other Americans.
They call us the "Ugly" Americans.
......or just Ugly for short.
Hope: "I feel I am more American than the ones whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower."
*SHRUG!* My Irish ancestors were here in the early 16th Century before the Mayflower folk, too. That wasn't the first European ship that landed here (and most of the people on it weren't "pilgrims", either) but I'm not sure that makes me any more or less American than any other citizen. It's always been my impression that citizenship is conferred by birth, immediate parental citizenship or naturalization and that...in spite of the D.A.R. and similar baselessly elitist groups... there are no degrees of American-ness. Where our forbears came from and why is largely irrelevant and out of our...their descendants'...control.
Now, my supplemental question about the original one is; is anybody confused when a person says s/he's American, Mexican, Canadian, South-or-Central American? I think not, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
The citizens of the United States of America are called Americans because we are the only ones to name our nation for the continent. Canada could have been the United Provinces of America, for example. No one gets confused when you say " American". Everyone knows who we are.
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So Lakota, Apalche, Pedee, Waccamaw, Daufuskie, Kansas, or Tejas don't count?
" So Lakota, Apalche, Pedee, Waccamaw, Daufuskie, Kansas, or Tejas don't count? " Pluto
Sure, they count. They are Americans just like the rest of us.
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when in England or anywhere else you lot are refered to as Americans or Yanks (right or wrong). Native Americans as Indians or real Americans or Original peoples or according to tribe.........the rest of you are immigrants. Canadians are Canadians, Argentinians are just that ETC.........just USA are "Americans" everyone else knows that apparently Rhesus does not? thats funny. May not make sense but thats the way it is folks.
From the original message by Rhesus:
" The term "estadounidense" has recently evolved in Latin America."
Apparently, they see a need to specify, where Europeans wouldn't care.
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