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[quote=Anonymous]The reality is that everyone around the world readily accepts that Americans refers to people from USA. There is no confusion. If you think back to the history, sure, a mapmaker in the early 1500s used the term very broadly across a continent, but early on the powers that be used the word American to refer to people living in what we know as the USA. This is a nonissue. But I have heard two people raise this in professional settings. In both instances, the people were seeking to correct someone for using the word Americans for its commonly accepted purpose. And both times the people in the room collectively rolled their eyes at the person making an issue out of nothing. (One was Canadian, and the other was American; both are the kinds of people that seem to pride themselves on being ahead of the woke curve in terms of identifying new ways to create “gotcha” moments where they can educate the group on how they suck and need to evolve. Exhausting.)[/quote]
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