Why you call yourselves americans?
Answer:
Americans got to choose their name since they are the dominant, successful, more powerful, and prosperous country on the continent.
Such privilege comes with winning. The losers get what's left.
It's survival of the fittest.
There is no such thing as a Mexican.
Today's Mexicans are only Aztec, Mayans, or Indians that were conquered by white Spaniards. They were very good at being conquered throughout history.
They were assimilated into Spain's Kingdom.
The Spaniards took the native women and bred Spanish speaking descendants of white Spanish bloodlines. There were no other women around. There is no pure Mexican blood.
The language is Spanish. It is a European language. There is no language called "Mexican".
There is no original or unique Mexican language, bloodline, or culture. Everything was influenced by Spain.
The architecture is from Spain. The alphabet is from Spain.
There would be no modern advancement, technological or financial achievements or success without the white influence of Spain. Even the popular Catholic religion of Mexico is European.
Mexico is older than the United States, yet is still underdeveloped and third-world. They don't win wars, they lose them.
People flee from Mexico and it's lifestyle and risk deportation, arrest, death, and loss in order to cross the border and live in "AMERICA".
Millions of descendants of the Spanish-conquered and controlled people of Mexico have crossed over into the beautiful and prosperous United States of America!
There is no reason to stay in Mexico.
Millions of people testify to that truth.
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Well, we are the only country with America in the name. But, you are correct. Anyone living in the Americas can claim to be American. Just like a German can call himself a European or an Iraqi can call himself a Middle Easterner.
Then call what???ijf you can come up with a better name, then say it....if not just shut up
what a lousy question, I read it a few times but.....
are you trying to make some kind of statement?
United States of America?
Agentina, Canada, Mexico, cuba have not elected to use the Name America in the name of their country. Unlike the United State of America. That' why we can call ourselves Americans. No identity crisis. However I do think the Mexican are having an identity crisis because of it. The keep coming over the boarder and working here without papers. Maybe they think it's because it's all part of the American contient therefore it's has to belong to Mexico, can't be because they are lawbreakers!!
Between you and me Bubus ........ because we let them.
Like the guy that answered before me said....nobody else wanted the name and they couldn't come up with anything else original.
The only real Americans are the native people. The rest of them are the result of the English and the French going over there an conquering the real Americans.
They really can't call themselves just The United States because they might be mistaken for The United States of Mexico so they call themselves Americans.
Kind of confusing for the rest of the world but at least they know where they belong.
We call ourselves the United States of America. We are on the North American continent and that is why we use the name Americans. You must live in the United States to be a citizen, not in the other countries in North (Canada) or South America.
Of course we have an identity and we are a sovereign nation.
Why do we get this question?
America are Americans. Mexicans are Mexican! Because we share the Continent of the Americas does not make other countries Americans!
the united states is full of every ethnicity. its not full of just africans or mexicans or cubans or anything else. its a bunch put together. in Mexico for ex. there are mainly mexicans there. so you would call someone from mexico a mexican not an american. I understand what you mean and it can be put that way. pretty much who ever lives on thisside of the world is an american. but its all because the US is a big melting pot.
Because we got the bomb!
We are Americans!
We are not Mexicans, As they are not Americans,
etc...etc...etc...
Besides i don't think they even want to be associated with America right now anyway, just opens them up for attack.
Besides that they are proud of their own heritage!
What are you talking about...we're americans we're citizens of america......we live here ...and we're not canadians...nor argentianians...or mexicans but we are americans...what's your point here?
Your question says it all. YOU just called US AMERICANS...
Apparently we're not the only ones laboring under a delusion if you are guilty of the same thing...
That's like saying why do you Germans call yourselves Germans when Austrians and parts of Switzerland and Belgium speak German also...
That is one of the worst questions I've ever read here.....
There is no identity problem. If the continent where a person resides is called North America wouldn't it make sense that the people who reside in it be called Americans? I have heard people being referred to and classified by the continents in which they live in such as Africans, Australians, Asians,etc. Even though there is North and South America, if a country within these areas were not part of the colonized states, which is considered the United States of America, that country's citizens is not United States citizens.
We call oursleves American because we are citizens of the greatest country on Earth. The United States of America.
We do have an identity and that is why we call ourselves Americans. Cubans call themselves Cubans. Brazilians call themelves Brazilians.
The name "American" is not about the geographical region that one is claiming. It is about the person's nationality that they are claiming. Two different things.
We call ourselves Americans because the title of our country is "The United States of America." It's just easier to say "American" than say..."US citizen". Canadians are called Canadians, Mexicans are called Mexicans. It's just that the word is used in the name of the country, so therefor we are that.
BTW, Cuba is an island, not even part of the North America, and Argentina is in South America.
America isn't from Argentina to Canada. There are two continents, North America and South America. The only "America" is the "United States of America" as the United States of Mexico is Mexico and the United States of Brazil is Brazil.
If your country's name was the United States of America, what would you call yourselves?
In any event, whatever you call yourself, it doesn't change immigration or citizenship requirements of our sovereign country (whatever you call that.)
Let me make this simple for you:
People from Canada call themselves Canadians
People from Argentina call themselves Argentinians
People from Brazil call themselves Brazilians
People from Mexico call themselves Mexicans
Get the point???
No one from Canada, or South America has called themselves Americans. They are separate countries and are not Americans!!
The 50 states in the US are one country!! And we are Americans!! Case closed!!!
yea, you are right, they are united stetians, but they are ashamed of the name of their country and they rather prefer to use the name of our continent, which put us Americans down.
goddamn gringos.
It's just a shortened version of the title of our country. No one calls us UnitedStatesians. No other country in North America or South American would want to call themselves Americans.
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