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Other meaning for USA people (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 hours ago by NahMarcas@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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From Spain here, when we want to speak about USA people we use the term "yankee" or "gringo" rather than "american" cause our americans arent from USA, that terms are correct or mean other things?

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[–] FloMo@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Hispanic here, I grew up using “gringo” specifically for people from the U.S. despite skin tone.

Canadians are “Canadiense”, English are “Ingles” but United States? “Estadounidense”? It’s sort of like saying “United Statian” but arguably more “correct/proper”

Gringo is just much faster/easier to say.

That being said this can vary a little from one Latin-American country to another.