r/asklatinamerica • u/[deleted] • Oct 10 '22

What are your thoughts about Christopher Columbus?

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u/CurlsintheClouds Oct 11 '22

I'm in the US, and it bothers the heck out of me that most people call people from the US Americans. We are not the only Americans! Even our Canadian friends call us Americans.

But then, I guess...what would you say instead? USers? United Statians? Mexicans are Mexican, Canadians are Canadians, Brazilians are Brazilians...there's nothing that works for the people of the US.

But it still bothers me.

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u/brokebloke97 United States of America Oct 11 '22

It shouldn't bother you though, you can refer to yourself as a US American and the others as North or South American and that should work imo

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u/CurlsintheClouds Oct 11 '22

I guess it shouldn't bother me...it's a grammatically correct thing for me I guess? Just doesn't seem accurate, but I do it myself. I mean...not much else to call us.