The United States literally borders another country called the United States, but nobody says "EUMian"
New Guinea is on the Australian continent, but nobody says "CAian"
There are fully THREE countries in Italy. Nobody says "RIano"
They're called IRISH.
Oops there's also a capitalist China, so "Chinese" is cancelled
Micronesia consists of Guam, Saipan, Marshall Islands, Palau, etc, but the Federated States of Micronesia just says "Micronesian"
Wait maybe you can use a US state name! Whoops lol, maybe, but 10% of those are ethnicities maybe that's not the best idea
Oh also the State of California is only part of California, so fuck you
North America and South America are continents.
Rest of the world, you can have the name America, you really can. All you have to do is get one other country to put the word "America" in its name. Do it. Until then, I'm gonna have a demonym ok literally everyone else has one
EDIT: ALSO: None of these Canadians or Brazillians actually fucking use it! It's like this aspirational thing or something... like they just want to reserve it so they know it's there. If they want to use it, they will be calling themselves Americans, which would also include the US, so what makes them balk at [persons presiding in USA] if it's supposed to also apply to [persons presiding in USA]???
None of these Canadians or Brazillians actually fucking use it!
There's just not much need to ever refer to everyone living in North and South America collectively. It's way more useful to break the hemisphere down into regions or countries based on linguistic/cultural/historical differences, or a difference like imperial core/imperial periphery, etc. Even broad classifiers like "Latin America" or "Iberoamerica" have notable gaps.
I don't mind it.
The United States literally borders another country called the United States, but nobody says "EUMian"
New Guinea is on the Australian continent, but nobody says "CAian"
There are fully THREE countries in Italy. Nobody says "RIano"
They're called IRISH.
Oops there's also a capitalist China, so "Chinese" is cancelled
Micronesia consists of Guam, Saipan, Marshall Islands, Palau, etc, but the Federated States of Micronesia just says "Micronesian"
Wait maybe you can use a US state name! Whoops lol, maybe, but 10% of those are ethnicities maybe that's not the best idea
Oh also the State of California is only part of California, so fuck you
North America and South America are continents.
Rest of the world, you can have the name America, you really can. All you have to do is get one other country to put the word "America" in its name. Do it. Until then, I'm gonna have a demonym ok literally everyone else has one
EDIT: ALSO: None of these Canadians or Brazillians actually fucking use it! It's like this aspirational thing or something... like they just want to reserve it so they know it's there. If they want to use it, they will be calling themselves Americans, which would also include the US, so what makes them balk at [persons presiding in USA] if it's supposed to also apply to [persons presiding in USA]???
There's just not much need to ever refer to everyone living in North and South America collectively. It's way more useful to break the hemisphere down into regions or countries based on linguistic/cultural/historical differences, or a difference like imperial core/imperial periphery, etc. Even broad classifiers like "Latin America" or "Iberoamerica" have notable gaps.
Yeah, it's almost as dumb as "Eurasian"