This. I’ve gotten some pushback on it, but I believe the US shouldn’t own the term “American”. I say that as a US American.
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?
why not just use the one that literally billions of people already use every day
Estadounidense?
Because we don’t agree with the US’s imperialist co-option of that term to exclude the majority of americans.
