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WHY THE WORD ‘UNITEDSTATESIAN’ OR SYNONYMS LIKE ‘UNITEDSTATIAN’ AND ‘US CITIZEN’ SHOULD BE NORMALIZED?
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tw: classism , xenophobia (?)
first things first, i know education systems vary from country to country so i’m not blaming anyone. i also know the term ‘american’ ~
a thread.
tw: classism , xenophobia (?)
first things first, i know education systems vary from country to country so i’m not blaming anyone. i also know the term ‘american’ ~
~ has been very normalized around the globe so i’m also not attacking anyone for using it. i understand where you guys come from, but i also want to ask you to understand where we, the rest of the people that live in the american continent, come from.
in essence, it shouldn’t ~
in essence, it shouldn’t ~
~ matter if you were taught that there are five, six or seven continents depending where you live.
whether you see america as a continent or whether you were taught its subdivisions (north, central & south america, although people wrongly leave out central america), in the ~
whether you see america as a continent or whether you were taught its subdivisions (north, central & south america, although people wrongly leave out central america), in the ~
~ end ... we’re all americans. canadians, mexicans, guatemalans, hondurans, brazilians, argentinians & the rest of the 33+ countries that are in the american continent(s) are.. in the end, american.
so when people from the US refer themselves as americans, it sort of feels ~
so when people from the US refer themselves as americans, it sort of feels ~
~ like they’re leaving the rest of the american countries’ identities out. as if they wanted to appropriate the whole continent(s) and pretend the rest of the 30+ countries that are in the same piece of land don’t exist. i get it can be difficult because in the end the word ~
~ ‘America’ is also part of the US’ name, but there are way more americans than the ones in the US... we’re all americans, because we’re here. we exist too. appropriating that name sort of erases us from the map, even when that’s not your intention at all.
that’s why i believe ~
that’s why i believe ~
~ it would be better to normalize another term for people from the US, so they can have their own identity and essence as a country, and without erasing the rest of us, as americans.
whether it is united-statesian, united-statian, US citizen or any other, that’s up to you. ~
whether it is united-statesian, united-statian, US citizen or any other, that’s up to you. ~
~ it’s your name to choose, your identity to represent.
i just feel that since we’re in 2020, and we’re all willing to understand and learn aside from what we were taught in school, and we all are willing to deconstruct ourselves from ideologies that hurt others, then i had ~
i just feel that since we’re in 2020, and we’re all willing to understand and learn aside from what we were taught in school, and we all are willing to deconstruct ourselves from ideologies that hurt others, then i had ~
~ to voice out something that makes me and some of my fellow latines uncomfortable.
so please consider this, and if you agree & want to take our feelings in consideration, make a change & stop using the term ‘american’ to refer to the people from the US.
so please consider this, and if you agree & want to take our feelings in consideration, make a change & stop using the term ‘american’ to refer to the people from the US.
