1. El Origen y la Controversia del Término 'Usian'.
El término 'Usian' (derivado de U.S.A. + -ian) es un neologismo utilizado principalmente en internet para diferenciar a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos del resto de habitantes del continente americano. Aunque algunos lo adoptan por precisión o para reducir el conteo de caracteres, muchos estadounidenses lo consideran irritante, peyorativo o simplemente "tonto".
- Is that a term people use to try and irritate people? ive only seen it used in the context of trying to avoid using american for people from the usa specifically, since, you know, north and south america is much bigger than the usa.
- I autoblock people who call americans usians in english. Its indicative of all kinds of other terrible opinions and stupidity.
- Dweebs on the internet, is who they are. Nobody actually says usian out loud, its a term used exclusively on the internet by a mixture of americans and europeans who hate the us.
- I use usians entirely for the purpose of reducing character counts where there are limits and ive assumed thats why anybody would.
2. La Defensa Histórica del Gentilicio 'American'.
Muchos ciudadanos de EE. UU. y defensores del uso tradicional argumentan que el término 'American' para referirse a ellos tiene siglos de antigüedad, incluso anterior a la fundación del país. Sostienen que es el demonym establecido y que la demanda de cambiarlo es presuntuosa o inútil, ya que la palabra es universalmente entendida en contexto.
- The thing is that people from the u.s. And people from everywhere else have been using the term american to refer to people from the u.s. For 100s of hundreds of years, and demanding everyone stop doing that also feels pretty damn presumptuous.
- The dumbest part of this is that the usage of american to refer to people living in what is now the united states predates the country by more than 100 years. British colonists were referred to as the american! usian is a break from a 400 year old lexical tradition.
- Youre welcome to argue this all day long but no amount of logic is going to change the fact that the people of this nation and most of the planet has used americans for 250 years and will never change it.
- I dont see the ambiguity, to be honest. People from the united states are americans. People from other countries on these continents are also americans, kinda.
3. Implicaciones Geopolíticas y la Perspectiva Latinoamericana.
Una de las principales fuentes de conflicto es la percepción de que el uso exclusivo de 'American' por parte de EE. UU. es un acto de arrogancia o imperialismo lingüístico, ignorando a los demás habitantes de los continentes americanos. Las personas de América del Sur y Central a menudo se sienten ofendidas por esta apropiación y prefieren términos más específicos.
- On the other hand, americans we dont live in the usa get quite miffed by people of the usa laying exclusive claim to the word.
- Thats the point. No one on this continent wants to be called americans except people from the united states.
- Calling yourselves americans is the most imperialistic thing you can think of how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
- The gripe stems from people from the us calling themselves americans when every inhabitant of the americas could be considered american in a different sense 12.
- This is honestly more confusing in countries south of the us border, where americano has some different valences. They solved this, incidentally, by calling people usian - in spanish, estadounidense.
4. Alternativas y la Búsqueda de Claridad Lingüística.
Existen alternativas para referirse a los ciudadanos de EE. UU. sin ambigüedad, como 'estadounidense' en español o simplemente 'people from the us' en inglés. Sin embargo, la discusión a menudo se centra en si es necesario o si la claridad contextual ya es suficiente, lo que lleva a un debate interminable sobre la etiqueta y el respeto.
- I would gladly call usians or north americans or americans, or the people of the estados unidos de américa whatever they want if they only agreed to to centre themselves less in any conversation, either started by them or not.
- I dont think ive personally used the term usian much, but i have definitely said thinks like im from the usaetc instead of im american. I know it probably doesnt make much difference for most, but at least some people outside the usa but in the americas appreciate it.
- I actually like to use usian in character-limited environs for a variety of reasons, but i also understand that the american denonym has been in use for quite a long time now, and this is one in a long list of pointless internet debates that will never do anything but annoy people.
- I feel like people from countries on the american continents dont refer to themselves as americans. If theyre from brazil, they say theyre brazilian. If theyre from canada, they say canadian. I dont understand where the usian push is even coming from.