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[My Name is Immaterial]

It can be both, and a noun. Verb: To bone a viking. Abjective: Bones of viking descent. Noun: Skeleton viking.

[TCM]

Where is your sense of over the top nationalistic pride?

In the same place as my racism and homophobia.

...In your liver? Pancreas?

On-topic: MERICA.

[scriver]

We aren't mexicans! The fact that we were born and raised in Mexico is pure semantics.

Ummm:
1) You obviously have spanish heritage
2) You were born and raised in Mexico

Yep, that about fits the definition of "Mexican" to me.

If... they've naturalized wherever they are now, and it's not Mexico, then. Yeah, they're no longer mexican? If someone spent the first, say, five years in one country, and then then next 10-20 in the one they're in now... I'd say they're of the latter, m'self. They're from Mexico, sure, as per Tomato, but I wouldn't particularly consider 'em mexican anymore.

I can see where they're coming from, and I do imagine it's a source of great frustration for a lot of immigrants. Y'spend decades of your life in another country and they still label you as "other", despite you being one of them in basically every way but maybe skin tone and a few years back when you were a kid. Annoying, at the very least.

It strokes me the wrong way just to hear people say "I'm Swedish/Scottish/Italian/Whateverish" despite the only connection between them being that their grand-grandparents was from there and a family meatball recipy. It just seems weird that people would go to such lengths to define themselves by something they have such a thread-of-a-relation to. Like they have some sort of Great Homelessness Complex.

[Gentlefish]

I live in America. Of course I have a homelessness complex.

[Hanslanda]

Everyone in America is Welsh/Irish/Scottish/African/English/French/German/Dutch/Norweigan/Italian/Hungarian/Russian/Chinese/Spanish/Japanese/Korean/Swedish/Swiss/Polish/etc. No one goes by 'I'm an American' when speaking of ethnic descent because America is a melting pot. If you just say 'American' it's like saying 'Mutt' for a dog breed. You're going to need to narrow it down. Even Native Americans have to say NATIVE Americans to get the point across.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I've always been more than slightly amused by the thought that anyone who lives on either the American continents is technically an American. But no one except an US American would willing identify themselves as 'American'.

[Gentlefish]

I've always been more than slightly amused by the thought that anyone who lives on either the American continents is technically an American. But no one except an US American would willing identify themselves as 'American'.

Not on Bay12 anyway. But they do exist.

[Sheb]

Actually I know an Argentine that makes a point of introducing himself as an American everytime he meet someone from the US.

[Dutchling]

I hardly ever see America used as a continent. It's either the Americas or just South and North America.

That might just be Dutch though . No confusion here.

[i2amroy]

Bone viking. Is it an adjective or a verb? CAN IT NOT BE BOTH‽

All I can think of when looking at this post is this:

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[miauw62]

Actually I know an Argentine that makes a point of introducing himself as an American everytime he meet someone from the US.

Yeah, and my friends and I often like to point out that it's a continent, not a country, when we meet someone from the U.S.A

"Hello, I'm a United-states-of-American."
You're basically saying that people from the UK should introduce themselves as "united-kingdom-of-great-brittain-and-northern-irelandish"
Although that'd be hilarious.

[Sheb]

Except Britain only contain on country, so British is pretty clear. We'll get to annoy them once (if) Scotland gain independence.

[My Name is Immaterial]

So, uh, why can't we identify as American?

This is probably the ignorant USAn shining through, but I don't know how many people want to associate themselves with the US. It's always been my impression that no one likes us.

[Graknorke]

Except Britain only contain on country, so British is pretty clear. We'll get to annoy them once (if) Scotland gain independence.

Define: Country
Because depending on how you define it the UK has 4. Though really they're more like meta-counties.
Also Great Britain doesn't include NI, which is a part of the UK.

[tahujdt]

So, uh, why can't we identify as American?

This is probably the ignorant USAn shining through, but I don't know how many people want to associate themselves with the US. It's always been my impression that no one likes us.

That's generally been my impression too. Which is funny, because taken on average, America is a lot better than the rest of the world in terms of rights, diversity, aid provided to the rest of the world, independence, and others. On the other hand, being the nation that spawned Miley Cyrus and helped bring about Justin Bieber's rise to infamy probably balanced some of that out.