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**IoninnyHaro** · 12-02-2009, 04:34 PM

Ditto for Japanese people. アメリカ always means the United States of America and thusly アメリカ人 always means "a person from the United States of America".

I hate this "American means anyone from one of the continents containing the word 'America' in its name" trend. I especially hate the (in my opinion) asinine fad of calling Americans "Usians".

I wouldn't expected more with that "trend" stuff. But I can't say much since many Yankees have also an idea of how a Latin American and MExican looks like or should be.. Just recalling a Texan girl who I coudln't make her believe me that I'm Mexican because,a s she said "No, you're not Mexican because I know Mexicans".

In official documents in Japan they add the other two kanjis that means "United States". I can't rememebr how to read them though. Also those kanjis are after the "Mekishiko" part of the name. I wouldn't trust much of them (not meaning to offend, but sometimes there is a lack of education in some points) with the easy way to make them to believe that Czsech Republic is an island near Hokkaido and also in Japan, in some official sites you can find that Mexico is in Central America, but in general, Japanese pple doesn't know much about America in general, and that's why is the association with the Yankees.
As for my personal opinion, Mexico wouldn't have to be called Mexicans United States, since that name was inspired form the first United States in America (yeah, I mean the continent, and yeah, I mean also the name of your country), and was suggested by one of our ex presidents that was a Mason and got in many relations with teh Masons of the USA.

Lemme quote someone: "And there will be not distinction between each AMERICAN except for the vice and virtue".. No, that wasn't said by one Yankee, it was said by one Novohispanic (Mexican) during the independence war of Nueva España against Spain around the 1810's decade.
What I'm trying to show hre is teh identity of being AMERICAN, also before the United States of America were spread a lot the usage of American as a synonim of Yankee.

American was the way of calling the pple that was living or born in the continent called America, and sometimes refeered to the indians (Amerindian pple). Not necesarilly a lie said 100 times become a true, and for mentioning now how proud is the United States of their pluricultural heritage, they should know that by using in general "Latin America" for the rest of us is discriminative and even racist..

And well, in Spanish we have "Estadounidense (UnitedStatian)", and Gringo (no,it is NOT an insult, as many Yankees think). But what about the well known and spread "Yankee"? So there are real words to call the pple from USA.

Just for clarify, I do not hate and I'm not an anti Yankee idealistic. I have many friends form teh United States and I know that goverment issues has nothing to do with what the pple really are and think. And please Atgm, I apologize if you think or if I said something that would offend you.

12-02-2009, 04:34 PM	#37
IoninnyHaro Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 377 Senior Member	Ditto for Japanese people. アメリカ always means the United States of America and thusly アメリカ人 always means "a person from the United States of America". I hate this "American means anyone from one of the continents containing the word 'America' in its name" trend. I especially hate the (in my opinion) asinine fad of calling Americans "Usians". I wouldn't expected more with that "trend" stuff. But I can't say much since many Yankees have also an idea of how a Latin American and MExican looks like or should be.. Just recalling a Texan girl who I coudln't make her believe me that I'm Mexican because,a s she said "No, you're not Mexican because I know Mexicans". In official documents in Japan they add the other two kanjis that means "United States". I can't rememebr how to read them though. Also those kanjis are after the "Mekishiko" part of the name. I wouldn't trust much of them (not meaning to offend, but sometimes there is a lack of education in some points) with the easy way to make them to believe that Czsech Republic is an island near Hokkaido and also in Japan, in some official sites you can find that Mexico is in Central America, but in general, Japanese pple doesn't know much about America in general, and that's why is the association with the Yankees. As for my personal opinion, Mexico wouldn't have to be called Mexicans United States, since that name was inspired form the first United States in America (yeah, I mean the continent, and yeah, I mean also the name of your country), and was suggested by one of our ex presidents that was a Mason and got in many relations with teh Masons of the USA. Lemme quote someone: "And there will be not distinction between each AMERICAN except for the vice and virtue".. No, that wasn't said by one Yankee, it was said by one Novohispanic (Mexican) during the independence war of Nueva España against Spain around the 1810's decade. What I'm trying to show hre is teh identity of being AMERICAN, also before the United States of America were spread a lot the usage of American as a synonim of Yankee. American was the way of calling the pple that was living or born in the continent called America, and sometimes refeered to the indians (Amerindian pple). Not necesarilly a lie said 100 times become a true, and for mentioning now how proud is the United States of their pluricultural heritage, they should know that by using in general "Latin America" for the rest of us is discriminative and even racist.. And well, in Spanish we have "Estadounidense (UnitedStatian)", and Gringo (no,it is NOT an insult, as many Yankees think). But what about the well known and spread "Yankee"? So there are real words to call the pple from USA. Just for clarify, I do not hate and I'm not an anti Yankee idealistic. I have many friends form teh United States and I know that goverment issues has nothing to do with what the pple really are and think. And please Atgm, I apologize if you think or if I said something that would offend you.
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