Correct name for the country between Canada and Mexico

[Phlegmak]

Your blood is a part of you, whether you have the knowledge of it or not.

And your ethnic background is meaningless whether YOU accept it or not.

 

[Zarn]

And your ethnic background is meaningless whether YOU accept it or not.

Not to anyone who knows anything about the social sciences. It doesn't define you, but it does define your past.

 

[Bugfatty300]

What's the point of having everyone labeled American?

Because American is a nationality. Etnicity doesn't play into it at all.

So someone who's great great grandparents came to the US from Ireland during the famine should be called Irish instead of American?

Not to anyone who knows anything about the social sciences. It doesn't define you, but it does define your past.

My past stops at 1986.

 

[Zarn]

Because American is a nationality. Etnicity doesn't play into it at all.

So someone who's great great grandparents came to the US from Ireland during the famine should be called Irish instead of American?

My past stops at 1986.

So your ethnicity still wouldn't be American. If you are Irish-American, then you are ethnically Irish and nationally American. I consider myself American but not ethnically American (as in the US).

Your family's past is your past.

 

[Veritass]

"America" should actually be spelled "AMERICA", since it an acronym for "Amalgamation of Mexicans, Europeans, Relocated Indians, and Captured Africans."

This name has gone out of favor recently, and those that remember that it is an acronym, usually parody this as "Arrogant Materialists Exporting Racist, Ignorant, Capitalist Aggression".

 

[amaterasu]

Its the USA, but folks call it america for short, but its real name is the USA.

This leads to me to a girl in my science class, who is really confused by thw calling of the USA america, and there being american continents. her geography scares me badly.

 

[bhsup]

By the way, I prefer "These United States of America" over "The United States Of America." Try to remember that we are 50 sovereign entities bound together for common purpose under the Constitution. Much like what the EU seems to be evolving towards rather slowly.

Republic of France
These United States Of America

Both commonly known and called by the last word of their conventional long form name. No other nation in the Americas has that word in its name, so why not use it to refer to us in the States?

 

[JohnRM]

Sidewalk, dog crap, etc....

 

[Atropos]

The full name is United States of America. Either US or America fulfill the only functions expected of any proper noun, which is to identify that to which it refers.

For those who like to get prissy over the fact that "America" is a continent, but think that US is fine, please bear in mind that there is also a United States of Mexico, a United States of Brazil...

 

[EquinoxOmega]

the US, but somehow America is correct too, because the US are a part of it and so you can call the land America ...

 

[Warman17]

So your ethnicity still wouldn't be American. If you are Irish-American, then you are ethnically Irish and nationally American. I consider myself American but not ethnically American (as in the US).

Your family's past is your past.

For the sake of argument what if my great great granddad was from ireland, but my great great grandma was from France, then their great grandad married some Russian lady while their child, my grandmother had some Arabian lover. You see where I'm going with this: where does the line of what ethnicity become so mixed and convoluted where you cant say you're any ethnicity at all, or if someone asked me I would have to sepcify :"well 1/128 irish, 1/128 French, 1/128 Russian, etc"

In 455, Vandals came, sacked Rome and went. By 462, their possessions in Italy were Sicily and Sardinia. (edit: they lasted some 80 years).

In short, I'd love to see a reference for your data.

So I exagerated. The point was that there is no such thing as a pure ethnicity. Whats considered italian ethnicity today wouldn't be considered Italian ethnicity 1000 years ago. The question remains, how long must one live in America to be ethniclly American? After all it wasnt overnight that what we consider the modern Italian ethnicity was formed, nor has it been a constant.

 

[ParkCungHee]

The purpose is to track the ethnicity of the people, before their ancestors or themselves became a part of the country or the region which became a part of the country. What's the point of having everyone labeled American?

Then again, why is Native American or English on the poll? Shouldn't you just put down "Mongolian" or "German" instead?

 

[Zarn]

Who says ethnicity had to be pure?

Park: Native American and English would be predecessors to American like Germanic would precede Austrian.

 

[azzaman333]

Replace USA or America with Gun-wielding Fag-hating Christian Super Fantastic Land.

 

[Swedishguy]

Replace USA or America with Gun-wielding Fag-hating Christian Super Fantastic Land.

Or, more simply; "The NOT biggest democracy!"

 

[Tee Kay]

I usually use the United States of America, but maybe we should come up with a new name. So far I got...

Columbia (Christopher Columbus discovered America! Never mind there's already people living there and that he never actually set foot in modern USA!)
Washingtonia
America, by Grace of God, the Great Democracy Libertyland
World Police Station
New Atlantis
The Empire
Earth Central
The Great (degratory terms)
-insert country name here-
Capitalistan
Bushland
Taillenia
et cetera...