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when Americans talk about "Europe", they're generally talking about Western Europe, not Eastern, and are excluding the UK too. They almost certainly aren't incl
by edj 14y ago
when Americans talk about "Europe", they're generally talking about Western Europe, not Eastern, and are excluding the UK too. They almost certainly aren't including Russia.
Likewise, most people across the world seem to use "American" and "U.S. citizen" interchangeably, even though Canada and Brazil, for example, are in the Americas, making Canadians and Brazilians American, as well.
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- okal 14y agoThe exclusion of Indians from "Asians" isn't a people thing. It's a very American thing, I suspect. EDIT: Formatting
- w1ntermute 14y agoIt is different in the details. But in the general sense, this is true in other countries. For example, in the UK, "Asian" means "Indian" and what Americans would call "Asians" are just referred to by their nationality. This is because in the UK, Indians are the largest nationality from Asia. But in the US, where East Asians are more common, they got the blanket term "Asian".
- okal 14y agoTo be fair that's true for my country, Kenya, as well. Asian here refers to subcontinentals. The Chinese are just that, the Chinese.
- w1ntermute 14y agoMakes sense, the usage is probably common in the language of countries with recent colonial ties to the UK.
- SheriffFatman 14y ago> but just like people don't consider India to be "Asian" American people, maybe: in the UK, the word "Asian", referring to a person and without other qualification, will usually be interpreted as Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi. > it sees unlikely that the world will suddenly include Brazil when they are talking about "Americans". I'm fairly sure that, in at least some Spanish-speaking countries, "americano" means South or Latin American, with "nordeamericano" or "estadounidense" used for people from the U.S. "People" != U.S citizens; "the world" != the Anglosphere.
- tcgv 14y agoIn Brazil we use "americano" (it is Portuguese noun too) to refer to someone that was actually born in the USA. I recall when I was a kid at school that a teacher once said even though we don't regard our selves as americans, it wouldn't be wrong to do so since we are born in south america. Then she'd say that we should refer to people born in the USA as "estadunidenses", but no one here does that, and if you do people will find it funny.
- matiaslaporte 14y agoThis comment here is quite important, as Martin Varsavsky isn't "American" in the way most of the people use it, but from Argentine.