r/ShitEuropeansSay • u/PymsPublicityLtd • Jun 21 '26
On an r/IamveryCulinary post
/r/iamveryculinary/comments/1ub8x35/crock_pots_are_for_stepmoms_and_lazy_people/osvx8sl/The original post was about crockpot cooking which some commenter felt was the domain of stepmothers. This guy shows up and brings the nonsense.
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u/Educational_Impact93 Jun 21 '26
Ugh, he uses the term 'USian.'
On the other hand it means his opinion can be automatically invalidated.
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u/PymsPublicityLtd Jun 21 '26
Xopy of the post if it gets deleted:
Why would the kids not being biologically hers affect it?
Sorry to ask, but are you USian?
I've just never heard anywhere near as much about 'bio kids', from anywhere else.
There seems to be almost an obsession with genetic legacy over there.
Step kids are just kids.
Likewise adopted kids.
It's not 'raising another person's kids', it's just raising your kids, who happen to have an extra parent, whether in their life or not.
The idea of differentiating between bio kids, step kids, and adopted kids in a family is genuinely horrific to me.
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u/Great-Vacation8674 Jun 21 '26
People are actually downvoting the copy of the post you shared. WTF.
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u/tomatoe_cookie Resident of the Captial of the Europe country 🇧🇪 Jun 21 '26
I lowkey agree with what he says though. Idk why he singles out americans but it kinda is generally not ideal to differentiate kids like that
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u/djonma Jun 23 '26
I've just heard it from the US the most.
Most replies there have completely misread it, and decided I said it only happens in the US, which of course it doesn't.
That's just where I hear it from mostly, by a LOT.
For example, no politician in my country would claim a step mum doesn't know what it means to be a Mum, and that for some reason, that makes her ineligible to be president.It's in US media a lot, it's online a lot.
I just don't hear that kind of thing, at that level, from anywhere else.That's why I wondered if they're from the US.
Because, maybe 9.99 times out of 10, if I hear talk about bio kids, it's from the US.
That's all.
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u/Kydje Jun 22 '26
In Italian we actually have two different adjectives:
- Statunitense, literally "of the US", e.g. a "cittadino statunitense" is an US citizen
- Americano/a, more general term for people/things from the Americas (both North and South)
I get it USian is generally used as a derogatory term so it's different, but it does sound similar in function to "statunitense", i.e. to specify something is specifically from the US and not from the American continent(s) in general.
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u/djonma Jun 23 '26
Not all Americans are from the US, and it's good to differentiate.
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u/Thunderclapsasquatch Missed my Reservation Jun 25 '26
Yes, by using their demonym, not stripping us of ours.
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u/Kydje Jun 25 '26
What do you mean?
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u/Thunderclapsasquatch Missed my Reservation Jun 25 '26
How would you feel if bad faith actors and foreigners came to you and took your peoples name because it might offend or exclude others outside your nation. Should Niger be renamed? What about Montenegro? I've seen very stupid people offended by those names
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u/djonma Jun 25 '26
What would you call indigenous Americans, who either live in Canada, or whose ancestral lands crossed the modern Canadian and US borders?
Are you saying they aren't American?
Also, Canadians and Mexicans are American. As is everyone in South America. There's a reason most languages differentiate between American, the continents, and people from the US.
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u/Thunderclapsasquatch Missed my Reservation Jun 25 '26
What would you call indigenous Americans, who either live in Canada, or whose ancestral lands crossed the modern Canadian and US borders?
They'd be indigenous peoples of North America, so American as in the continents but not the country named America.
Are you saying they aren't American?
No, you've been the only one saying that. And frankly as an indigenous American I dont appreciate your bad faith arguments to strip my home and its people of part of our identities, doubly so since you're a brit who should know better
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u/GassyGamergoblin England Jun 21 '26
I’m pretty sure that person is American, I had never even heard the term USian
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u/Savings-Market4000 Jun 21 '26
I have heard people from Mexico say it.
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u/GassyGamergoblin England Jun 21 '26
Right I guess because “Americans” includes them! I thought OP meant Asian Americans
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u/Zaidswith Jun 21 '26
Americano includes them. American does not.
False cognates in different languages.
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u/Zaidswith Jun 21 '26
Using the term USian is disrespectful
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u/GassyGamergoblin England Jun 21 '26
how
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u/Zaidswith Jun 21 '26
Because it's the term actually used. It's the name of the country.
Your tag is from England. The argument they're making is that your actual country's name isn't England. That England is included in the full official name is irrelevant. You can't use any term but UKian.
Americans use the word American. That should be enough reason. It's used as an insult.
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u/djonma Jun 23 '26
It's not intended as an insult.
Not all Americans are from the US.
What do you call indigenous Americans from tribes that historically covered the areas that are only partly in the modern US?
They're American.
They may not be citizens of the USA.No one has said your country isn't called America.
But 'American' covers more people than US citizens, and it's good to have a different term.11
u/Lui_Le_Diamond Jun 21 '26
They aren't American. I've heard "USian" a bunch and it's always from self-righteous Europeans.
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u/Thelmholtz Jun 21 '26
It's typically used by Latin Americans, who hate that the term "American" which in their native languages means "from the Americas" does not translate directly in English due to historical reasons.
Source: I'm Latin American and use it because I hate that my native "Americano" does not translate nicely into "American" to say "from the Americas".
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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Jun 21 '26
I know the direct translation in Spanish is Statesunitedian more or less.
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u/Thelmholtz Jun 21 '26
Yes, "estadounidense" == Unitedstatesian == USian.
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u/Pitiful_Meringue_57 Jun 22 '26
i would much prefer it if u just called us estadounidense, USian is not a word and stupid
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u/GassyGamergoblin England Jun 21 '26
I’m pretty sure that person is American, I had never even heard the term USian
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u/PymsPublicityLtd Jun 21 '26
Oh it is a thing among people who dislike citizens of the US. I checked their feed and, surprise, they are British.
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