when i say asian i am referring to chinese, japanese, taiwanese and korean people
i realize that india is part of asia
but i don’t refer to indians as asians
i am sorry if this devastates any of you beyond comprehension
but you’re wrong tho. it’s not that hard to be a little politically correct.
when i say American i am referring to people from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois,Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
i realize that Texas is part of The United States
but i don’t refer to Texans as Americans
i am sorry if this devastates any of you beyond comprehension
People from Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, The Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, The Virgin Islands, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, oh and not to mention Texas would like you to go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
Hence why I said “part of the United States” and not North/South America. If you’d like to coin a term for people from the US that ends in ‘an’, ‘ian’ or ‘ish’ be my guest. Let me save you some time though because United Statesian isn’t going to happen, Gretchen Wieners.
How about “citizen of the United States,” or the nomenclature for the state in which that citizen resides? Since that doesn’t erase the majority of residents of the Americas, and Vespucci was referring to what’s now Brazil. Estadounidense is actually a word in the language of the majority of residents of the Americas. Which, I’m sorry to break to you, James Monroe, isn’t the one we’re using.
For real, though. The assumption that this country is the only or principal one in the entire Western hemisphere contributes to the fact that the United States government has invaded and/or otherwise toppled the governments of much of the above list. It contributes to the prosecution of Spanish speakers in this country. This entire hemisphere does not belong to English speakers of European descent. We don’t have to right to delimitate “Americanness” any more than Palin did in the ‘08 election.
Most Texans would be okay with that actually. We are a whole ‘nother country.
Actually, can’t we just all be humans?
