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I think there indeed is national pride from the French Tech. I don't think USA is totally immune from it. How many non USA services do US people use ? Of course

I think there indeed is national pride from the French Tech. I don't think USA is totally immune from it. How many non USA services do US people use ? Of course many were invented here but some were not and were reimplememted.

digi_owl 9y ago
There is also a big "buy American" push in general, as best i can tell.
- nradov 9y ago
  "Buy American" mostly only applies to the federal government. Everywhere else it's mostly just talk.
  - dghughes 9y ago
    I'm not from the USA but I do live in the Americas so technically buy American means anywhere in this region ;)
    - briandear 9y ago
      Actually technically it doesn’t. America is the short name of the United States of America. North America is a continent. South America is a continent. There is no such place as “America” unless you are referring to the United States. “Americans” refers to the nationality of one from the United States. It’s the adjective describing “something from the United States.” I have never heard anyone in Brazil refer to themselves as American. That’s just nonsense and no product from Paraguay is stamped with Hecho en America. Interestingly, people from the US or Canada are referred to as North Americans by Mexicans – despite Mexico being in North America.
      - digi_owl 9y ago
        Note the use of America_s_. The s there is something i have seen often used to encompass all the nations of the American continent.
        dghughes 9y ago
        Yes. Africa = Africans Europe = Europeans Asian = Asians Americas = ?
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        aninhumer 9y ago
        Netherlands -> Dutch. Language often has idiosyncrasies, and "American" meaning from the US rather than the Americas is one of them.
      - ornel 9y ago
        It's a never ending source of confusion and bad translations. We (I'm from Panama) definitely consider ourselves "americanos" and the continent is for sure called América. It is clearly geographically a continent. Nobody in normal speech talks about "las Américas". So "American" is translated as "estadounidense" (United Statesian).
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  Isn't "buy American" actually "buy in America something made in China" ? Walmart is such an example.
toturro 9y ago
keurig pods anyone?

digi_owl 9y ago

There is also a big "buy American" push in general, as best i can tell.

nradov 9y ago
"Buy American" mostly only applies to the federal government. Everywhere else it's mostly just talk.
- dghughes 9y ago
  I'm not from the USA but I do live in the Americas so technically buy American means anywhere in this region ;)
  - briandear 9y ago
    Actually technically it doesn’t. America is the short name of the United States of America. North America is a continent. South America is a continent. There is no such place as “America” unless you are referring to the United States. “Americans” refers to the nationality of one from the United States. It’s the adjective describing “something from the United States.” I have never heard anyone in Brazil refer to themselves as American. That’s just nonsense and no product from Paraguay is stamped with Hecho en America. Interestingly, people from the US or Canada are referred to as North Americans by Mexicans – despite Mexico being in North America.
    - digi_owl 9y ago
      Note the use of America_s_. The s there is something i have seen often used to encompass all the nations of the American continent.
      - dghughes 9y ago
        Yes. Africa = Africans Europe = Europeans Asian = Asians Americas = ?
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        aninhumer 9y ago
        Netherlands -> Dutch. Language often has idiosyncrasies, and "American" meaning from the US rather than the Americas is one of them.
    - ornel 9y ago
      It's a never ending source of confusion and bad translations. We (I'm from Panama) definitely consider ourselves "americanos" and the continent is for sure called América. It is clearly geographically a continent. Nobody in normal speech talks about "las Américas". So "American" is translated as "estadounidense" (United Statesian).
bigbugbag 9y ago
Isn't "buy American" actually "buy in America something made in China" ? Walmart is such an example.

toturro 9y ago

keurig pods anyone?