Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, toxicity and dog-whistling are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !uspolitics@lemmy.world
7) No Hit-and-Run questions.
Please don't delete your post for no apparent reason. If you plan on deleting a question later, say so in the post, or if you feel that you have a good reason to remove it, message a mod beforehand. It's not fair to the ones who took their time to answer, and it's not in the spirit of the community.
8) No Bots.
Posts or comments from bots, LLM's, AIs, Neural Networks, Transformers, or Marvin the Paranoid Android are not welcome in AskLemmy. Real humans only please.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
Not as a nationality but as a continental identity (yes, just one). USians changed the number of official continental regions and their names, but you can trace the history of that and it is very recent. Many historical documents of real Americans (from America, the continent) talk about themselves as both their nationality (Cubans, Mexicans, etc.) and Americans. Just as a French is both a French and a European. That's why that's still the continental model of some countries. I think it makes sense to call USians a name that's not stolen from other regions or peoples, even in English.
What exactly is a continental identity? People have a cultural and a national identity, sometimes a regional identity, no one has a continental identity
Europeans kind of do, but it's nowhere close to the continent of Europe, is it? The continent was named after a group of countries with a close history and a large concentration of colonial powers. The term refers to people of a region, it has nothing to do with continents no matter what taxonomy you want to use
More importantly, how is this at all useful? What concerns do you think North and South Americans share? How do you talk about the people on that half of the planet in a way that doesn't minimize the interests of the majority of countries there? Time zones?
At the end of the day, it's offensive to project a label and identity on other people. It's infantilizing