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>to my fellow local USsians. I think you illustrated why the concept exists. USA actually has "America" in its name, unlike others - hence 'Americans' and not

>to my fellow local USsians. I think you illustrated why the concept exists. USA actually has "America" in its name, unlike others - hence 'Americans' and not 'USsians'.

zimmund 1y ago
Well, in that case could we call them Statians or Unitians?
- jer0me 1y ago
  Or perhaps Usonians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia
  - xeonmc 1y ago
    Muricans.
layer8 1y ago
There are languages in which the equivalent of "US American" isn't uncommon.
smnrg 1y ago
While Americans can mean "from the US", the term "statunitensi" is how people from the US are commonly called in Italy. And in other countries. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and calling Americans for people from the US is just a figure of speech called synecdoche.
ralgozino 1y ago
that is not completely correct, see: The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1818) that began with the May Revolution in 1810. It originally comprised rebellious territories of the former Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata dependencies and had Buenos Aires as its capital. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Provinces_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Provinces_of_the_R%C3%A...
DanielVZ 1y ago
But then it clashes with the naming of other people that live in America. We south americans also call ourselves Americans because we live in América – taught as a single continent with two subcontinents. We call people from the US Estadounidenses because “Americans” wouldn’t make any sense for us.

>to my fellow local USsians. I think you illustrated why the concept exists. USA actually has "America" in its name, unlike others - hence 'Americans' and not 'USsians'.

zimmund 1y ago

Well, in that case could we call them Statians or Unitians?

jer0me 1y ago
Or perhaps Usonians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia
- xeonmc 1y ago
  Muricans.

layer8 1y ago

There are languages in which the equivalent of "US American" isn't uncommon.

smnrg 1y ago

While Americans can mean "from the US", the term "statunitensi" is how people from the US are commonly called in Italy. And in other countries. The two things are not mutually exclusive, and calling Americans for people from the US is just a figure of speech called synecdoche.

ralgozino 1y ago

that is not completely correct, see: The United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata), earlier known as the United Provinces of South America (Spanish: Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica), was a name adopted in 1816 by the Congress of Tucumán for the region of South America that declared independence in 1816, with the Sovereign Congress taking place in 1813, during the Argentine War of Independence (1810–1818) that began with the May Revolution in 1810. It originally comprised rebellious territories of the former Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata dependencies and had Buenos Aires as its capital. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Provinces_of_the_R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Provinces_of_the_R%C3%A...

DanielVZ 1y ago

But then it clashes with the naming of other people that live in America. We south americans also call ourselves Americans because we live in América – taught as a single continent with two subcontinents. We call people from the US Estadounidenses because “Americans” wouldn’t make any sense for us.