"USAians" is dumb. Looks like you typoed "US Asians" and sounds like your trying to remember every vowel

I would say "stop making up terms," but they're never going to catch on.

Mexicans and Canadians do not want to be called Americans even though they are on the North American continent. And USA stands for United States of America, so American is the correct and logical term.

No one in South America identifies as an American, either.

I can't help but read it as US Asians, every time.

I somewhat see your point, but this weird word will never catch on.

What else can we call them (even though Americans is the correct word)?

I use “US-Americans” consistently, for a start I wouldn’t want to insult the Canadians. I also use “yanks” or the German “Ami” - but the latter sounds too much like the French word for “friend” so now unusable.

I agree and try to avoid 'Americans' as much as possible, but USians is awful and will never catch on.

I tend to say US folks or yanks when it flows well. It's not perfect, but it mostly works.

I'll never use USians, and most people will judge you poorly for trying to legitimize it.

I try where suitable to use the term ‘US citizens’ but USians sounds stupid.

Bottom line is, it’s locked in, we know what’s meant by ‘Americans’ and it does make both verbal and practical sense.

I strongly disagree. In all common use, American refers the 50 states and 14 terriroties of the United States of America.

Language can be powerful, but this is simply not how this word is used, and I would kindly suggest that you not give the regime any ideas. Lol.

This is like latinX all over again. No body asked for this.

It's not that bad: the US of A have been fucking up much of the entire world since 1945, yet Americans haven't taken to calling themselves Worldians have they?

on behalf of great britain you are welcome to use shermans or septics. but the derivative seppo was invented by the aussies so you'll have to ask them for the permit. they may throw in leftpondian for free, i don't think they use it much any more

edit: i was operating outside my jurisdiction, septics is australian too according to https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/brdxe6y

I do it in French and use États-unien(ne,s) but it's far more common and acceptable. In fact, there's lots of papers precisely on that subject and États-unien (or Étatsunien) is a valid term.

But in English it feels a bit pushy and pedantic to repeatedly use United Statesian or anything like that. So, I guess I should do that and get used to it myself.

Whatever

You anglophones are rather fucked with the lack of common slurs for the burgerriechians. In polish I've been using usańczycy (usanian equivalent) for quite some time, we also have hamerykanie - good, old one that underlines their hubris and vanity, but as of late I just use hitlerites. Considering The Great Satan - great meaning altough imo sounds too cool

Why come up with a stupid word when there's already Yank?

You're overlooking hyphenated American immigrant groups from the entire planet who make up the majority of the population (so, almost everybody), Native Americans (nearly everyone else), and the entire fact there are North and South American descriptors (all the rest of the people in the Americas) because those are the names of the continents we live on (all the places).

I remember learning about manifest destiny when I was in school. Kinda made me distrusting of people south of the border. I would agree with the sentiment of "language matters" and that we need to really drive home our sovereignty into the US psyche.

I said this about a month ago before the whole thing happening now and everybody in that thread wanted me dead. lol

If you'd like to be pedantic, then you'd have to use USMians or U.S. Mexicans to refer to Mexicans as they are also a collection of united States.

Agree, but we need a better word than that.. It's hard not to include 'americans' so people know what we are talking about. We likely need a prefix slur that we designate to the (mostly) scum people in the bottom of North America that supports the US Capitalist Oligarchy/globalist hegemony. 'Crapmericans' ? hm, there must be better suggestions..

I always say fuck the US americans

USAians!