![]() Is simply untrue: "American" is by far the most common American demonym in all dialects of English and specification of any other use must be made in all of them. They generally have other terms specific to US nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American. E.g.,Įnglish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to US nationals. Second and more importantly, the article makes numerous specific claims that "American" is only or primarily used as a synonym for "citizen of the United States of America" by speakers of American English. HaŋaRoa ( talk) 20:15, (UTC) Reply Page needs some cleanup: 'American POV' claims ![]() There are parts of the world where the term American is viewed very negatively due to political or other conflict.- MoebiusFlip ( talk) 20:24, 22 March 2010 (UTC) Reply See Real Academia's gringo definition to realize that usage varies from country to country. Even when used negatively, it doesn't rise to the level of a curse. LtDoc ( talk) 14:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC) Reply My understanding is that the term can be used in an affectionate way. LlywelynII ( talk) 23:41, 15 February 2010 (UTC) Reply Is there a consistent or absolute way of saying something is pejorative or not? To most latins I know the terms yanque and gringo are not at all pejoratives. First (and less importantly) yanqui and gringo are not simple synonyms for norteamericanos (and, I'm just curious here, do Canadian Hispanophones get in such a huff over that usage?) but are pejoratives, albeit sometimes used lovingly or jokingly. While pointing out the origin of the 'controversy' in misapplication of foreign (particularly Spanish) usage to English, the article still has several flaws aside from the general need for cleanup and formatting. This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. Caribbean Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean Template:WikiProject Caribbean Caribbean articles If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page to become familiar with the guidelines. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Caribbean, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the countries of the Caribbean on Wikipedia. Photo : See Wikipedia requested photographs of places.Notability : See Geography articles with topics of unclear notability. ![]() Infobox : See Geography articles needing infoboxes.Geographical coordinates : See Articles missing geocoordinate data by country.Deletion sorting : Listed at Geographic related deletion discussions.Cleanup : See Geography articles needing attention.To help assess the quality and importance of geography articles, please see: Unassessed geography articles and Unknown-importance geography articles. ![]()
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