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is there any correct word for people living in USA?
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| St_Andrew |
so is there any correct word for people living in USA?
i mean, people in sweden are swedish, people in england are english, people in germany are germans, but people in USA are, americans? :wtf: that just make no sense, i mean there are A LOT of people living in america that doesn't live in the USA... there are even two amercas, a north, and a south....
there is no better word for it in swedish either, but i find it kinda strange, but USAies or something just don't fit :p
please tell me that there is some proper word that sounds okay :p |
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| Echo of Silence |
| They call themselves Americans and yes there are many countries in the Americas but only the people from USA are called Americans. The rest are like Canadian, Mexican, Argentinian, Cubans, etc. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Echo of Silence
They call themselves Americans and yes there are many countries in the Americas but only the people from USA are called Americans. The rest are like Canadian, Mexican, Argentinian, Cubans, etc. |
yeah i know, but i find it rather strange. it's like if people from UK would call themselves eurpeans, and everyone would assosiate an eurpean with an englishman.
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| Smeagol |
One guy from USA i meet that had been to France said that it could be substituted with "" in almost any circumstances.
Then I heard his (lack of) french and concluded that it might not have been only the nationality...
Actually the name United States of America could just as well belong to a union of Chile and Bolivia or something similar. So the problem is deeper that just the nationality. :disbelief
They should rename imho.
Maybe "Stater" would do? |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Smeagol
They should rename imho. |
yeah true, lets start a campaign.
:D |
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| Smeagol |
| what about moving this tread to the swedish section? :rolleyes: |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
so is there any correct word for people living in USA?
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A few come to mind regarding those who would rather watch William Hung and Donald Trump on TV instead of live in the real world:
"Oblivious"
"Asleep"
"Heedless"
Meanwhile, people like me who live in teh real world have seen the writing on the wall for some time now.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2...ants/index.html
Above the law
The Bush administration is arguing that it has the right to lock up U.S. citizens forever -- without evidence, witnesses, lawyers or trials. If the Supreme Court agrees, will this still be America?
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By Tim Grieve
April 28, 2004 | U.S. Supreme Court justices listened skeptically last week as Solicitor General Ted Olson argued that foreign detainees being held in U.S. military facilities in Guantánamo Bay have no right to seek relief from U.S. courts. Wednesday, Olson will be back before the court, this time arguing in two historic cases that the government has the authority to lock up U.S. citizens, too -- without charges, without a lawyer, without a trial, without any rights at all -- simply by declaring them "enemy combatants" in the administration's war on terror.
Having government agents sweep U.S. citizens off the streets and into prison cells, holding them incommunicado for as long as the government likes -- it sounds like a dark fantasy of life in a totalitarian state, the kind of thing we're supposed to be fighting against in Iraq. But this is no fantasy. In the cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi, the Bush administration is advancing a vision of governmental power that is both far-reaching and unprecedented, at least in the United States of America. And it is a vision -- like the one the administration articulated Tuesday during Supreme Court arguments on the secrecy of Vice President Cheney's energy task force -- that leaves sole discretion, sole authority, and almost unfettered power in the hands of the executive branch.
It's easy to become blasé about liberties lost in the Ashcroft era. The lines between foreign intelligence efforts and criminal investigations have been blurred; the government has more power to snoop, to search, to study your financial transactions and examine your reading habits; foreigners have been detained, immigrants deported. "There are so many things," says Elliot Mincberg, legal director for the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way.
But the administration's arguments in the Padilla and Hamdi cases have activists and analysts on both the left and the right alarmed all over again. Timothy Lynch, director of the conservative Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, says the Bush administration is advancing a "sweeping theory of executive power" that could lead to "dangerous" legal precedents. "If the administration were to prevail in Hamdi and Padilla, there would be no limit to the number of people who could be arrested here totally outside the normal criminal process, people arrested without arrest warrants, people not going before judges, people being held in solitary confinement in prison facilities right here in the United States," he said.
The Cato Institute and People for the American Way seldom see eye to eye, but they do here. If the Supreme Court accepts the Bush administration's arguments in the Padilla and Hamdi cases, Mincberg says, the executive branch of the U.S. government will have "an unlimited right to put American citizens in an indefinite Constitution-free zone."
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| DaveSZ |
There was a little ornery man who once lived in Germany.
Nobody took him seriously until it was too late. |
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| Radagast |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
"Oblivious"
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Omg that's one of my favorite TV shows. I mean favourite. |
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| Floorfiller |
you shall refer to us as...
The Persons of the United States of America |
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| Jiffy |
Are you people kidding me with this thread?
Are you trying to give me a headache?
Yes... we call ourselves Americans. Why? Because we live in the United States of AMERICA.
We also might use our state of residence to identify ourselves. I would typically refer to myself as A Texan. Because I'm from Texas.
You people are idiots.
The above statement might have been mean... but DAMN. You're makin my head hurt. |
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| Electronicmaji |
as per to the news clipping: Sometimes we have to give up certain freedoms liberties in the face of tragedy and in this case terrorism. If it is the only way to protect the nation then sometimes we must come to extremes ....this is one such time...
now for the state of americans...etc...we should just all call you Gringos :toothless |
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