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  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlWe are not all the same
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    4 months ago

    How about we call them “Union Members” seeing as they’re part of “the Union” as decreed by their founding fathers? Instead of bulldozing over all of the other “United States” in America and the world by replacing the imperialist “American” with the… Somehow less imperialist “United States Ian”?



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    I hate this argument. The term America has been used to refer to the US for so long now that it’s colloquially the same.

    The term “USian” is just as bad as “American” if you really give a fuck about the names of countries because the USA is not the only “United States” they could be part of either. If you’re gonna try to find a word that is instantly recognizable as “citizen of the United States of America” why not just use the one that literally billions of people already use every day?



  • I bitch about this constantly. My partner and I love to walk around town, and people will stop let us cross at weird points in the street. My partner is always happy about this and I correct them every time that “I’d prefer if they were predictable. What if someone behind them got annoyed and didn’t see us and decided to go around and hit us?”