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Only in a Spanish speaking sense: In English American means citizen of the United States of America, unlike the Spanish Estado Unidense being different than Ame
by crowbahr 4y ago
Only in a Spanish speaking sense: In English American means citizen of the United States of America, unlike the Spanish Estado Unidense being different than Americano.
Canadians aren't American in English. Mexicans aren't American in English. Both of them can become American by immegration and naturalization into the United States. It's a quirk of the language.
- xyzzyz 4y agoNot just of (American) English either. In Polish, for example, citizens of United Stated are “Amerykanie”, but Canadians or Mexicans arę not.
- xeromal 4y agoSame in at least Iraqi arabic. My friends call me an "Amreekie" or some form of that.
- blululu 4y agoIt's mostly just in Latin American varieties of Spanish and Portuguese. In conversational European Spanish/Portuguese (and pretty much every other language on Earth) American is the standard demonym for people of the United States. But most importantly, this is a discussion in English about Canada, and Canadians (both English and French speaking) would object to being called Americans.
- luis8 4y agoTechnically Mexicans are "Estado Unidenses" too. The official name of Mexico is "United States of Mexico"