From Spain here, when we want to speak about USA people we use the term “yankee” or “gringo” rather than “american” cause our americans arent from USA, that terms are correct or mean other things?
From Spain here, when we want to speak about USA people we use the term “yankee” or “gringo” rather than “american” cause our americans arent from USA, that terms are correct or mean other things?
IDGAF about what leaders called it/us. That’s almost irrelevant.
But other people in the world absolutely were using the term American to refer to citizens of the US before the 1900s.
I’m also not sure why you insist on staying on this tangent when the conversation was about current usage.
Getting you to read is impossible. Stop white-supremacist vibing and actually read about its historical usage. I even linked you an article, which I know you didn’t read.
It’s so frustrating to read books about the long history of these things and then have confidently wrong children try to correct you with a vibes-based analysis.
Dude, stop with the ad hominem bullshit.