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Old 02-18-2010, 05:28 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Semantics View Post
What do the people of England call us if not American?

Citizens of the United States of America?

If not Americans, what should we call ourselves?
My friends in London say "from the US" or "Yanks" or Yankees which outside the US tends to mean all people from the US, not Southerners.

What should Argentines call themselves, or Mexicans, or Canadians, or Chileans? They are all Americans too.
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