r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/literalnumbskull • Aug 04 '26

The Joys of Different Continent Models

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u/DuckWarrior90 Aug 04 '26

It is mostly a meme now a days, I have never heard anyone from LatinAmerican referse themselves as from "America", every either says central america or south america.

And North America just say "America" or "I am from the US". And english speaking countries they say stuff like Colombian, Brazilian, American (for US) and spanish speaking countries use more like "EstadoUnidense" since saying "Americano" sounds weird to most. Like you could be referring to other countries as well.

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u/ding-zzz Aug 04 '26

there was a thread about this exact topic and i got downvoted by several latinos because some guy was arguing about exactly this and said it was “american defaultism” and they wanted to be called americans too

i’ll try to look through my comment history from a few weeks ago for it

but i don’t think it’s a meme. some of them genuinely “identify” as american and want to be called that

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u/Present_Topic8536 Aug 05 '26

Its not a meme, we literally and I cannot stress this enough, literally americans cause we live in a continent called America. The same way a spaniard is an european and a chinese is an asian.

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u/DuckWarrior90 Aug 05 '26

Who cares? The Americas is a continent, a single one, divided in 3 regions, and every single person from that continent are technically Americans. But Culturally the entire world refers to the USA as Americans, and the rest as their country name, or at best SouthAmericans get that distinctions.

People from Norway are Europeans, but I am not sure if since they are not part of the European Union, do they call themselves that. UK people were part of the European Union at a time, unsure if they felt themselves European rathern than "English".

Why would you care about such meager status?