• Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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    8 hours ago

    Mexicans and Canadians have those demonyms, so no need to worry for them.

    Frankly, I think most Canadians would probably feel insulted if you addressed them as Canada Americans. They don’t want to be tainted by association with us.

    I’ve seen Canadians being okay with being called “North Americans”, when discussing something impacting both Canada and the USA, so it seems in this situations it’s fine by team. Canada Americans would indeed be strange.

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      7 hours ago

      North American yes, but it would be unusual for a Canadian to call themselves just American. Same for Mexico, though obviously Spanish has its own demonyms that don’t have this problem.

      For a European equivalent, should we say “UK British” when referring to people living in the UK? The UK is the only country to commonly use British to refer to its citizens, but they are not the only country on the British Isles.

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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        2 hours ago

        The UK British example is interesting.

        Not British, so hopefully I’m not butchering this up.

        UK is Great Britain (so Scotland, England, Wales) + Northern Ireland.

        UK British in opposition to UK Northern Irish makes limited sense because both demonyms are enough to see who’s who (British vs Northern Irish). And if you want to go deeper, you can use Scottish, English, Welsh.

        To have a situation similar to America would be to have the English using British to only qualify themselves, disregarding Scottish and Welsh people.