> That's a USofAian "suburb" .
Better to just say 'American', FYI. It's much clearer and the ambiguity you are trying to avoid doesn't exist.
Better to just say 'American', FYI. It's much clearer and the ambiguity you are trying to avoid doesn't exist.
It's generally white people thinking they are solving a problem, honestly. Even if some people don't like that 'America' tends to refer to the US rather than something general to the continent or one or both of the continents, it doesn't really matter - there is never any ambiguity. The contexts talking about something the US is doing vs the continents are pretty much always crystal clear.
Oh but you can basically guarantee there's an inner eye roll everytime you call yourself Americano. Estadounidense works, as Estados Unidos Mexicanos is largely not in use, and Mexicano(a) is the prefered term.
It's not a different mental model, it's just a mis translation. In Spanish saying "soy Americano" translates to 'I am from the Americas'. That's why the preference is to just use Estadounidense. It effectively means that US people are wrong if they say 'soy Americano' in Spanish, and Latin Americans are wrong for saying 'I am American' is wrong in english.
I'm even entirely open to gentle, friendly correction. I've gotten this in France; it was said with a smile, not a snarl, so I appreciated it.
Like I said, nobody got in my face about it.