I don’t really know. If you just said “Americans” no one would know you’re referring to a specific group. I’ve heard the term “First Americans.” It hasn’t really caught on yet but it seems to be the most accurate way to describe us.
Which country are you from? I’m not sure if you’ve revealed that or if it’s private but I’m just curious.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, I was just being facetious - I find it funny that the official term for the original inhabitants of the country (continent for that matter) has to involve a hyphen.
But then again, I’m a linguistic freak that’s equally mystified by the origin of the term Asian-American (Israel, Yemen and Tajikistan are for example all countries in Asia) and the weird story behind the peculiarly US concept of the “Hispanic race”.
I live 30 minutes away from a quaint little town with a steel mill whose only claim to fame is a onetime pudgy college dropout with a penchant for older men who lied about her nonexistent architecture degree and supposed mastery of five languages, despite only speaking halting English with an unusually thick accent.
You do know that those rights are limited and you are happy that they are. I mean, if someone’s religion says it’s OK to shoot you for not wearing a mask in public, you wouldn’t expect them to be able to hide behind the Bill of Rights.
Why aren’t Americans simply called Americans? It’s because we love to label and categorize people in ways that make us see them as different.
Technically, anyone from anywhere in the Americas is “American”. It’s not a very descriptive term. That’s South America and Central America as well as North America.
In Spanish it’s not a technicality but a reality. Many Southern Americans lose their shit when they hear the term “Americans” being used to refer to Los Estadounidenses.
Kind of my point. I live in Nicaragua. (Not Nicaraguan, extrañero)
Ah, the focus of all football (soccer) addicts at the moment (besides Belarus)
24k a year per kid in NY vs 12k in TN. My state’s spends double the money and the kids are just as dumb.
Then move to Massachusetts.
I’m talking about how we refer to ourselves. And if they want to be called Americans, they should learn to speak American.
Yeah let me get on that.
The only state worth a damn up here is NH. Thats my backup plan if i can’t go south.
Then you will live in an area that’s subsidized by those states that aren’t worth a damn. Plus you’ll now have access to shittier health care! But you will be able to see the Confederate flag more often and that has to count for something.
On the plus side college football will be much better.
You know what’s funny about that, I see way more confederate flags being flown in upstate NY than I do when I visit the south. I’ve never quite understood it.
Racism knows no bounds!
Better schools than anywhere in the South, if that’s a priority.
It’s simple if you think about it. You don’t think someone down south is looking out of his window at his neighbor’s toilet lawn chair and thinking he needs to get the hell out of there?
Ze, are you a Masshole?
Nope. I’m a good driver.
But I have to accept the fact that MA schools can be compared to Finland and Florida schools can be compared to Somalia.
Not necessarily. If there is a “no crowds above 10 people” rule based on enforcing social distancing, etc., and it is being neutrally applied (e.g., protestors not being singled out), the rule isn’t unconstitutional. States have “police powers” and always have.
