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    10 hours ago

    American is slang for something or somebody from the US. I live near the canadian border.

    Canadians, Mexicans and everyone in South America all are technically “americans” and refer to themselves as such occasionally, often because its a necessary descriptor for people from particular continents in the same way “eurasian” is used to describe a multicontinental land mass.

    Personally, I’d encourage people to re-adopt the word “Yankees” for US people, its a way funnier word.

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        I think its funnier to upset them by calling them yankees.

        If you specifically want to call them something dumb it doesn’t hurt to call them something new: S’ankees, Sou’r krauts, corn krauts, texmex, texish, etc.