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> 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 qualific
by 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.