Is this how we're playing?
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Terry Reed13 said:United States of America American The states = Americans
Look, when you're dealing with the USA, you have to realize their whole definition of nationhood and what makes a "people" is fundamentally different from how most European countries approach it. It's just a different playbook entirely.
Look, let’s get one thing straight about Canada—the people living there are either Canadian or Herzegovinian, or maybe some combination of both that acknowledges both regions. And I'm not joking around here; you've seen those terms used dating all the way back to the 19th century. If you start using any other shorthand or abbreviations, you aren't talking about the place anymore. It just isn't the same.
Regarding the term Canadian = a resident of the Canada region.
A person from the Herzegovina region.
Like I said before—there’s a very specific political reason why this particular user writes exactly the way they do.
Is that any clearer?
It’s pretty obvious to me that calling them Southerners—instead of just plain Americans—really gets under their skin, and honestly, there's a solid political reason behind why they hate being labeled that way.