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The Fig Economy

When I brought it up once a lady said that abroad it’s how everybody referred to people from the US, and when I asked how they pronounced it she unironically said “people from the US.”

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Siebznet

In Spanish class they insist that people are going around saying "Estadounidense" and on the street it's just "Pinche gringo"

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Dan eBoy

honestly might as well just adopt Gringo, at least it's pronounceable in both languages (but don't actually adopt Gringo, that one's ours)

The Fig Economy

Yeah most of the pushback I got was “well in Spanish they say” and like yeah but that’s a different language that this post wasn’t about, you get that right?

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EnginerdNate

Even in Spanish, in real life "Americanos" is probably waaaaay more common.

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Queen Gwenevere

People use their own local terms for other people in other countries, but it’s dumb to expect the people in those other countries to use your local term - they’re going to use THEIR local term And if you’re using a deliberately obnoxious term, of course people won’t agree to call themselves that