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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre Canadians supposedly Americans?
Americans who wandered too far north?
This sounds like Putin's view of Ukrainians.
Ukrainians are Russians who wandered off and adopted a mistaken identity.
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Are Canadians supposedly Americans? (Original Post)
Frasier Balzov
Mar 2025
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Americans are US Citizens. In Canada we call you Americans. We are Canadians.
applegrove
Mar 2025
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cyclonefence
(5,161 posts)1. Of course they are
as are Mexicans, all inhabitants of the continent of North America.
If Russia were a continent, then Ukraine (and I guess China) would be Russian.
H2O Man
(79,122 posts)3. As well as
those in Central and South America.
applegrove
(132,582 posts)5. Americans are US Citizens. In Canada we call you Americans. We are Canadians.
There is no other name for your people.
SARose
(1,831 posts)2. We are all Americans; we are all the New World
When we lived in Venezuela folks would ask us where we were from. We always said we were Americans.
The response was we are all Americans. We are all the New World.
Whoa! Never thought about it like that!
Finally started answering Im a Texan. 😉
Wonder Why
(7,130 posts)4. when you said you were a Texan, is that when they brought out the nooses?
Texans came to Venezuela in the 1930s.
There's a cowboy in the jungle
And he looks so out of place
With his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots
And his skin as white as paste
And he looks so out of place
With his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots
And his skin as white as paste
Cowboy in the Jungle - Jimmy Buffet
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usonian
(25,862 posts)6. North and South Americans are.
America was named for Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer.