Americans when people from other countries come to theirs : “These people need to speak English”
Americans when they visit other people’s countries : “Why don’t these people speak English???”
Americans when people from other countries come to theirs : “These people need to speak English”
Americans when they visit other people’s countries : “Why don’t these people speak English???”
I think you need to research what the words “vast majority” mean lol. The vast majority of Americans definitely do not know Spanish 😂
Are you defining Americans as “people that live on the American continent and the Caribbean” or “people that live in the United States of America”?
I think OP means the former.
Nobody in the Caribbean calls themselves Americans 😂😂
I’m defining Americans as most people do, the people that fucking sing God Bless America. Nobody in Latin America calls themselves Americanos, americanos son los gringos, de los EEUU
People from and what they are called in English : Mexico - Mexicans, Canada - Canadians, Colombia - Colombians, Venezuela - Venezuelans, Panama - Panamanians, Brazil - Brazilians, Etc etc
Do you see a pattern? People from United States of America - Americans
Only on Reddit or Lemmy and places like them would you get a bunch of nerds storming in to say everybody in North, Central and South America are Americans.
On CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Voice of America etc.,etc Americans are the people of the USA.
Or when they present poll results of Americans, they polled in Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador, Canada etc etc too?
Mexicans do not call themselves Americans even knowing they are from North America.
Not even the “american continent”, that would include Canadians and they are not Americans. Los EEUU, the United States of America… And the fact that I have to explain that is irritating af, it should be obvious what “Americans” means. The Talibán does not target Colombians, Mexicans, Chileans, etc when they go after Americans
Mexicans are Americans too fam.
(North Americans)
If you have Asians, Europeans, and Africans, why is it that “Americans” is assumed to be a nationality instead of a continental/racial designation?
Because thats how the word has been used in English since at least the 18th century. This weird little hangup people have with it all the sudden is just people looking for a reason to hate on Americans. The folks trying to change the usage don’t even have good alternative word which shows that it isn’t an argument in good faith. The only alternative I’ve seen is “united statsians” which is nonsensical in English and cumbersome. Even the whiner from the original comment didn’t spell it out.
I think you need to reevaluate what the word American means. It includes the southern continent. So of the 35 countries that are over here 3 speak English, 1 Portuguese, 1 French and 30 Spanish. So yes, the vast majority of Americans speak Spanish.
In the common vernacular of today ‘American’ refers to people from the USA, or something of or related to the USA. That is one of the dictionary definitions of American, and quite frankly the most common usage in today’s world. Anyway, to make it clearer for people like you I edited post above to specify
You live in an alternate reality, use some common sense, when people say Americans it refers to people from the USA