View Full Version : Where have all the United Statesians gone?
Maedhros
08-22-2002, 12:52 AM
Yesterday, I was having a conversation with an international lobster of mystery. I told her that I found odd that the people from the US refer themselves as americans, but that title should hold for any person that was born on the continent of America.
The red lobster told me that while theoretically it was true, in practice it would be inpractical to call themselves United Statesians.
Che pensi tu?
Rangerdave
08-22-2002, 02:46 AM
Well.......
Since the name of the country is the United States of America, the American moniker is correct.
Much easier to say as well.
RD
PS, didn't Eddie Murphy boil Larry the international Lobster of Mystery back in the early eighties?
If you remember the Save Larry the Lobster sketch, then consider yourself aged.
D
Maedhros
08-22-2002, 03:09 AM
Isn't America the name of the WHOLE continent and not just the US?
Elbereth
08-22-2002, 06:26 AM
Yes Maedhros, America does refer to the WHOLE continent and not just the US...acutally it encompasses both North and South America. However, we "Americans" are just born rebels...we don't follow the rules...and we are arrogant and bold enough to claim the term for ourselves....:D
(Although I think RD's reasoning is much better...;) )
PS...I am happy to report that the International Lobster of mystery is no longer red anymore...although she is returning to the beach this weekend...so there is a good posibility that her red hue will return. :p
Gamil Zirak
08-22-2002, 03:30 PM
Techincaly any one from North America should be called a North American and any one from South America should be called a South American. I think the Europeans named us Americans anyway. Bloody stupid American sounds like something they would say. Plus, they called the land they settled the Americas and since we weren't collonist anymore, the term stuck.
Parrot
08-22-2002, 04:34 PM
Maedhros, the way we "Americans" seem to all be wearing both figurative and literal cross-hairs on our backs, I don't think any other countries are exactly clamoring to borrow that handle anyway.
DGoeij
08-25-2002, 07:55 PM
What would you prefer? Americans or Yankees?
United Statesians doesn't sound all that great when you are yelling it in front of an embassy.;)
Gamil Zirak
08-26-2002, 05:09 AM
I'll stick with being a Texan.
Rangerdave
08-26-2002, 07:22 AM
Boy howdy!
We Texicans aways show our pride with goofy hats and belt buckles the size of hubcaps...
Actually we don't. But I have found that whenever I travel abroad, I am more apt to refer to myself as a Texan than as an American. Something in the Lone Star psyche I guess.
That is of course if I am traveling in friendly territory. When in the more hostile regions of the world I told people that I was Canadian. Everybody loves the Canuks.
:p
RD
Grond
08-26-2002, 04:49 PM
Most people call me a.... well I can't really type on this family forum what most people call me, but I refer to myself as a Sout Lousiana Cajun or "Coon-ass" if you like. And I hate the term Yankee. :)
DGoeij
08-26-2002, 05:03 PM
Lacking the full knowledge about the origin of the term Yankee, I just remembered the signs used here during the Vietnam-War. ;)
Wasn't Yankee the name the southerners gave to people from the northern states, during your civil war and afterwards?
Grond
08-26-2002, 05:07 PM
DGoeij, that would be correct. Don't get me wrong... I don't dislike Yankees in general... just the term in particular. :);)
DGoeij
08-26-2002, 05:21 PM
Well, I can imagine that. It was meant as bad language, right?
Anyway, my dad once said it had something to do with the first names of the northeners, a lot of them being called Jan and Kees.
But since those are strictly dutch names, I didn't know if I should believe him. :)
Grond
08-26-2002, 05:42 PM
He was pulling your leg. :)
Yep- definately should be United Statesians.
A Brazilian or Canadian could also be called an American.
It's the same as how the Chinese and Japanese are called Asians- it groups them from what continent they came from.
People from the USA should get their own name :D
Or maybe they should rename their country?
Hmmm...
I wonder what they'd call it?
'Bushland'?
'Clintonia'?
;)
Elbereth
08-06-2003, 04:12 AM
If the United States renames itself Bushland...I will be forced to move to New Zealand! :rolleyes:
New Zealand????
Why would you want to move there???? ;)
lol, maybe Dubyabushland then ;)
We could call you all Dubyans :D
Snaga
08-06-2003, 10:21 PM
I believe that the term 'American' was a label adopted by people who didnt want to be British any more, being unhappy with stuff like taxation and tea-parties and so forth.
So if American really implies a dislike of the British, you too can be an American, Aule!:D
Ack! What an insult! :eek:
And I don't dislike the British: I just enjoy watching them being defeated in cricket ;)
Chymaera
08-10-2003, 01:32 AM
United Stateians never existed. They commendered the name American and no one has come along with a big enough stick to take it away from them. :D
Back then Canadians were British and French, and Mexicans were Spainish along with most of Centeral and South America. Of course Brazil was Portuguese ;)
So the Americans being the first independent country in the new world could call themselves anything they wanted to.
Chymaera
08-10-2003, 01:32 AM
United Stateians never existed. They commendered the name American and no one has come along with a big enough stick to take it away from them. :D
Back then Canadians were British and French, and Mexicans were Spainish along with most of Centeral and South America. Of course Brazil was Portuguese ;)
So the Americans being the first independent country in the new world could call themselves anything they wanted to.
Jesse
08-27-2003, 01:42 PM
Uh...you double-posted.:rolleyes:
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