Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.
Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.
Yeah. And this would make some really great topic for Sociolinguistic research - local demonyms for outsiders vs. attitude towards those outsiders. This stuff sometimes changes even within a linguistic community.