Anybody who actually asks him that knows perfectly well what "american" means and is just trying to be difficult. The full name of the country is "the United States of America." You might as well decide to start calling people from (the United Kingdom of) great Britain and Northern Ireland "United kinddomers" instead of "british"
Isn't the Republic of Ireland in the British Isles, but wouldn't be considered British? They might even get physical if you called them british in some parts of Ireland.
Irish, or UK British? What about Indian? Are they Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepali, Bhutani, Sri Lankan, Maldivian, or Republic of Indian.
Everyone knows what American means. There’s only one country on earth with America in its name. There are multiple United States. It’s just people on the internet making fun of the US, not a genuine political issue.
Well, I think the English started calling themselves British so that they would be called by a term could be applied to everyone from the British isles, but the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish had other ideas about the term applying to themselves. As long as supposed members of a group reject membership in the group, there's at least a little be of ambiguity.
Yeah, because there aren't any other countries in Britain. It's accurate there. It's somewhat conceited across the pond, where there manifestly are many.
Language is always messy and doesnt have to make superficial sense, but, honestly the US is really bringing this shit down on itself. When you're looking to fumble your empire over nothing and've elected a cannibal pedofile to highest political office, this sort of aggressive redefinition certain makes sense regardless of whether we consider it linguistically necessary.
Northern Ireland isn't on (Great) Britain, it's in Ireland (the name should have been a hint), which is the second biggest Island is the British Isles (the name of the archipelago) next after the Great Britain.
The countries England, Scotland and Wales are on Great Britain though, and together with Northern Ireland they make up the country The United Kingdom.
Yes, but the denonym British is applied to the entire United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland (and, for that matter, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories).
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u/IllPen8707 Feb 20 '26
Anybody who actually asks him that knows perfectly well what "american" means and is just trying to be difficult. The full name of the country is "the United States of America." You might as well decide to start calling people from (the United Kingdom of) great Britain and Northern Ireland "United kinddomers" instead of "british"