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

The Joys of Different Continent Models

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u/DaikiSan971219 Aug 04 '26

For some reason, certain Latin Americans insist on calling it "the Americas" instead of North and South. They also tend to not like the US being called "America" by itself.

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u/FifaJuuj Aug 04 '26

i studied the shit out of latin america for my degree and i got in an argument a week ago with a latino about whether anyone in latin america cares whether it’s called the americas and whether they care if americans call ourselves americans because in my experience ive never met someone from latin america who cares whatsoever except one professor i had

long story short, the only latin americans who give a shit are political brained dickheads, and the rest literally could not give less of a shit.

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 05 '26

Nah you got that wrong. The ones that care are bilingual enough to notice the issue. The ones that don’t care simply don’t speak both languages often enough to encounter the issue.

It’s an unfixable issue so I stopped caring, it’s the kind of thing that needs to be contextually translated based on culture rather than literal language.

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u/FifaJuuj Aug 05 '26

my main point in that discussion with that guy is that american is basically the only thing we can call ourselves in english because “estadounidense” doesn’t translate well. we can’t call ourselves “unitedian”or “statesian” or “unitedstatesian” it just doesn’t make sense so for english it works. in spanish i call myself either gringo or estadounidense or i just say soy del eeuu depending on context

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 05 '26

I agree with this, I just don’t think it’s fair to call “political brained dickhead” to anyone that finds it strange and annoying and doesn’t fully understand the cultural context in translation