My father used to go around talking about this to basically anyone where the topic came up in conversation with the general idea that, "No one really adresses this that much." Then I had him listen to this song. He loved it.
Now, all of you at home may be asking yourselves "What's a Canada?" I may be wrong, but I believe "Canada" is an old, old wooden ship from the Civil War-era.
Nope, Canada's name was derived from Kanata, an Indigenous word for a village or settlement. It dates from before the first European settlement , about 1600.
"North, North Americans." LOL. I'm Scottish and lived in Canada for a couple of years 4 decades ago and loved it: Nice climate, nice folk, hardly any shopping mall massacres. Like Patton, I shall return.
Good lord, 16 years….. I remember watching this in high school on revver because it was the only video site not blocked on our school issued MacBooks(the school wasn’t as great as that implies). So glad that LRR is still going strong.
Oh, and one other thing: As a lover of language, the fact that the Arrogant Worms wrote a three minute song about the lexicological inconvenience of living in a country that is technically in 'America' warms my heart.
I used to date an American for 3 years (I'm British) , have a friend that's Canadian and sent me the song The War of 1812. I found it hilarious the American didn't. Funny that :-)
This is exactly how I feel. Although I am from the Netherlands in Europe, I've always hated the name "Americans" being standardly used for people from the USA. But it is indeed hard to find a suitable other name that pronounces as easily. But I will keep writing "USAmericans" though, because that is doable. I love this song!
+HolandaChiquita Most people I know will either call themselves Canadians or if we're talking about the continent, North American. No one I know call themselves American.
from greenland to patagonia. greenland is the northernmost part of the american continent. greenland is geographically part of america,but denmark is the boss there.
@@teamawesomeness7137 that’s true but I will say “Greenland is the northernmost territory of the American continent” while on the other hand “Canada is the northernmost country of the American continent”!
1. That's why I like the idea of North and South America. At least it fucking makes sense. 2. Seriously, we didn't think naming ourselves through enough. What ENGLAND had discovered was what we saw as "America". We weren't aware it was going to be a continent at the time. 3. We're the United States (name) of America (place). Like the United Kingdom (name) of Great Britain (place).
Err... England did not discover America. (Neither did Great Britain, for nitpickers) The Norwegian viking chief Leif Eriksson was first by a lot, not counting the natives. Then, long after the Viking settlements were for some reason abandoned, came Christopher Columbus, whose journey was funded by Portugal, which was followed by several raids by Spain on mainly South American native civilisations. Great Britain merely colonized North Nmerica. They did none of the exploring.
+Nighthawkifikation The America's were named such 300 years before the US took the name, named for Amerigo Vespucci who explored South America, and first concluded that the "New world" was not Asia, but a new continent, a north part first discovered by the vikings(and later the Italian Columbus sent by spain/portugal), and a south part. So...yeah.
Addressing point 3, the UK actually has the same problem: what do you call them? UKers? The best you can do is "people from the UK", which is matched by "people from the US". The main difference is that is is easy and comfortable to say "Welsh comedian" or "Scottish singer" worldwide, while "Alabaman" or "Indianan" are adjectives really only used within the USA, and even seem weird there. So for the USA, there's no good name for us collectively, and no good geographically specific names either. British has the same problem as American applied to Hawaii or Guam: there are territories that are part of the UK, and whose people are UK citizens, that are not in the British Isles, so they aren't British. And Ireland is part of the British Isles, but most of it is a country that isn't part of the UK. Maybe we should just call everyone from the USA "New Yorkers", in the same spirit as calling everyone from the UK "English".
because america is a continent,not a country. and people from the US aren't the only americans. also,if you look up continents on wikipedia in english and spanish,they report different things. english wikipedia calls australia a continent,leaving many countries either not part of any continent or part of asia. spanish wikipedia calls oceania a continent,leaving no country out of a continent.
@@teamawesomeness7137you’re being pedantic lmfao. most of the world is talking about people from the united states when they say “americans”. it’s just the way it goes.
Any country with a definitive article has a problem with this issue. The Netherlands (Lowlands) are called Dutch for example, not Lowlanders. The United States was to be like the European Union. A state is a country, not a province. They were so concerned with being different from the British, still are, that they didn't put a lot of throught into names. In actuality the irony is that the term "American" was used by the British long before the United States became independent!
@@javierluissantosrubio6603 Some people might say “Ireland” is part of the British isles, so I don’t think “British” is correct, because Irish people are not British and Northern Irish people are truly Irish by logic, not just “UK residents” by country. *I believe that Northern Ireland residents do want to reunite with the country of Ireland however!*
+Cletus Biggum Because it's a shortened form of "United States American." Not hard to figure out. Since every other country pretty much has adopted the term, it's annoying when some people argue semantics over it. I think one of the Spanish dialects the term for USAers actually sounds fine but it doesn't translate to English as nicely.
+Cletus Biggum Once upon a time in the 1400's everyone who lived on the land mass of the Americas was called an American. But then 13 colonies, all of whom considered themselves independent countries, or states as they are often referred, decided to band together to throw out the British Monarchy. They then chose to name their new combined country in such a way as to respect the worth of each individual part, therefore becoming the United States of America. Just before the turn of the 19 century the members of this country started referring to themselves, and only themselves, as Americans. And the rest of the world sort of went with it so they'd not cause a ruckus, because most of the world couldn't care less anyway.
Because they were the first independent country in the "Americas" So all other parts of the Americas were part of Britain or Spain or Portugal. So Brazil was Portuguese, Mexico was Spanish, Canada was British and The United States was American.
Usonians? Well, it’s too bad that USA’s official name doesn’t have “Usonia” in its complete name “United States of America”. So therefore … the demonym “United Statesian” is derived from the name “United States” and the demonym “Usonian” is derived from the name “Usonia”. United Statesians? Yah, because USA calls itself United States for short officially! 👍 *Good thing that United Mexican States* (or any other country) *doesn’t call itself “United States” for short like that other than Mexico,* etc. if they also contain their own group of united states as well, other than USA itself! 🙂
Tell you what: you can describe your nationality by using the appropriate demonym, and I'll use the demonym for my state (e.g Virginian). Using the demonym "American" is needlessly vague in most cases.
techmage89 well if only most americans where not stupid ignorant would be GREAT, OF COURSE i use my country's name first, example: I am from Ecuador. but then since they dont know shit about other countries they will say "oh where is that at??" ME: "its in south america" american: "wait...in the south? which state" HOW THE FUCK u answer to that???
don't you consider yourself american,too,blueoonlightdreams? then calling most americans ignorant would be hypocritical of someone who considers themselves american.
One of my biggest pet peeves as an United States citizen is when people call United States citizens Americans like it is something special because technically everyone in North and South America is American (that's 35 countries). J/s.
By the way, following your example, which is correct, I must also add that technically … - everyone in North and South Dakota is Dakotan (that’s 2 states within USA of North America). - everyone in North and South Carolina is Carolinian (that’s 2 states within USA of North America). - everyone in North and South Korea is Korean (that’s 2 countries located in Asia). - everyone in Sudan and South Sudan is Sudanese (that’s 2 countries located in Africa). - everyone in Micronesia is Micronesian, not just the country of FSM (that’s 5 countries located in Micronesia of Oceania). - everyone in West Virginia and Virginia is Virginian (that’s 2 states within USA of North America). - everyone in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea is Guinean (that’s 3 countries located in Africa and 1 country of Oceania). - everyone in Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo is Congolese (that’s 2 countries located in Africa). - everyone in Ireland and Northern Ireland is Irish (that’s 1 country and 1 UK territory located in Europe). - everyone in North Macedonia, as well as Western, Central and Eastern Macedonia is Macedonian (that’s 1 country and 3 Greece regions located in Europe). - everyone in Georgia, South Georgia SSI and Georgia is Georgian (that’s 1 state located within USA of North America, 1 territory located within South America and 1 country located in Asia). - everyone in Samoa and American Samoa is Samoan (that’s 1 country and 1 U.S. territory located in Oceania). And finally, being as 13 is considered an unlucky number … - everyone in United Kingdom Virgin Islands 🇻🇬 and United States Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 is a Virgin Islander (that’s 2 territories located in North America). 🙂
@@Physics_of_the_Universe exactly, you got it! On the other hand however, I do not like the term “West Indies” to mean “The Caribbean”. So I prefer to call the Caribbean section of America as “Caribbean America” or “Insular America”! ➡️ I’m really saying that either of those choices works for me only! 🙂
To Americans though that name only ever applied to people in the north half of their east coast states, most modern usage in the states is a reference to the New England & New York areas (a tiny percentage of the country). Some from the former Confederate states (which had a war against the Yankees) will quickly correct anyone calling them that, though most will just go with it since they know what the intent was.
+SnowmanTF2 To the world, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is from the Northeast. To Northeasterners, a Yankee is from New England. To New Englanders, a Yankee is from Vermont. To Vermonters, a Yankee is someone who eats pie at breakfast.
Nice! The idea of this video is very good and the images are funny. I'm brazilian and we have the same question about the loose of the right of calling ourselves Americans. In fact, it is an old debate in Latin america. All the best, Eduardo
@andrewm153351 lots of the cast and crew were not American however - Sam Worthington included (he's an Aussie). And without a director (or plot and script), there is no movie so... without James Cameron, no Avatar. And btw, it was filmed in New Zealand as well, not just the US. And the studio was in New Zealand.
@nayr3195 the current line-up for Arrogant worms are Trevor Strong Mike McCormick Chris Patterson Past members have been John Whytock Steve Wood so unless these people are in LRR these groups are NOT the same
Lol, but everyone at that point will have to remember that South Canada is factually “The South part of Canada”! 🙂 So South Canada cannot be the same thing as United States of America, although it is the country that is south of Canada’s border.
Bullshit. I'm a proud Canadian, born and raised in Canada and Canadian right down to my red and white snowshoes, and still I say bullshit. With authority. The USA is not Canada, but it really is one of the finest and friendliest countries in the world. They treat foreign visitors (including my humble self) as honoured guests and go out of their way to do so, even at great expense to themselves, and that is the very definition of class. If other countries were even half as cool as the USA and Canada, the world really would be a better place.
I can relate to Canada, I really appreciate Canadians, you guys are really cool and polite, but, my experience with most Americans were disappointing. I still have some American friends but most people from the US say stupid shit about me or my country, when I don't say a single thing against them. I totally agree with you about Canada, but not about the US.
MagazinePhil "most people from the US". How much is most? 50% of the 300+ million of the citizens? 75%? I'm amazed you have first hand experience with that many people.
Not all citizens of the States are bad, but a lot of them are. I won't apologize for them on their behalf (even though I'm a US citizen myself) because they won't learn anything from someone else apologizing for them and I'd spend every moment of the rest of my life doing that. I'd rather spend it reading or talking to people that I can actually have a civil conversation with (which sadly doesn't include many people around where I live).
Sentinel, rest assured that Canadians are fully aware of that. Prejudice is simply judging a whole group by the actions of a few- it is generalizing in a stupid way. EVERY group has the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly among them.
Goes to show what happens when you take a very long name. You wind up being known by your nickname. We're just lazy is all. USers, USAers. Or just Yewess would do as well, but it's rather too late now. "God Bless America" doesn't include Costa Rica. "Proud to be an American" doesn't include Bolivians. Native Americans, African Americans or Asian Americans are not citizens of any other country but the US of A.
+hackman669 thanks so much for that reply. Exactly what i have been saying for years now. America is America...not just USA. I call my USA friends USians (You-shians, or Awe-shians). I guess it is an inside joke we have between ourselves now.
"US Citizen" would work as well since before the United States became a melting pot of cultures saying "I am X" generally meant your culture/ethnicity was X. Back when William the Conqueror became King of England, you had the Anglo-Saxons who made up most of the population and the Normans (themselves a mix of French and Norse culture and ethnicity) who made up the nobility. While England existed before this, it wasn't until at least a generation after that the idea of an "English" culture first appeared. Before this mix of Anglo-Saxon, French, and Norse cultures, saying "I am English" actually meant "I'm from England." The US is basically the same since the only thing making someone "American" in the regard many people use it is that you're a citizen of the US. "US Citizen" says it just as easily without obligating tacking on "x cultural/ethnic group term" onto it (which kind of goes against the idea of being a nation where cultural and ethnic differences shouldn't really matter), therefore reducing the number of syllables required, while being less presumptuous.
+linkmaxwell By "asking" you mean trying to kill us and steal land? Because that's what happened. And we were all British back then (excluding the Natives, French, Dutch, etc of course), including both sides of your Revolution. Besides, no one in Canada regrets the decision to not become "American". Just sayin'. :P
It should perhaps really be called Vespuccia, but think about it: "My fellow Vespuccians" and "God Bless Vespuccia" "Vespuccian Graffiti" etc, etc. Who would take them seriously with a name like that?
Actually I think we can consider this one of the examples where the Founding Fathers lacked foresight into exactly WHAT they were doing. They hoped that they would be the first of the European colonies in the Americas to become a sovereign nation and hoped other nations in the future would embrace the ideals that they were trying to revive and strengthen by creating a republic, but apparently failed to account for the possibility that just about every other colony in the Americas would, at some point or another, become a republic after gaining their independence. If not that, they either picked the name "United States of America" to proudly declare to the world exactly what kind of government they had chosen to become or because they had a hope that the other colonies would join us in a single state spanning two whole continents at some point.
Hi Oilerman. It is true that Canadians don't call ourselves Americans. But, my country of origin is Argentina. Whenever I speak Spanish, I may well define me as "Americano", in the sense the song suggests. If I refer to people born in the States, I will call them "estadounidenses". I guess that is something that happens in the suthernmost "American" countries. I have no idea when the US decided to call the country as it it were the continent.
@Otox No It's like the example in the song , what if France decided to call itself Europe. I think a lot of other European countries would think that a bit.....arrogant..
@mirx3007 I think its worth noting that US citizens have been referred to almost exclusively as Americans since arguably the mid 1600s. We also didn't invent the term, Britain did. They say "where were we when the US went and took the name American away?" the answer is that they didn't exist yet, or were actually included in the name "American" as Canadians excluding the French were "American colonists" until the Revolution split us.
The history says in 1507 the name of america is for our continent. 200 years before usa's independence. The name of continents are historical or cultural names not geological.
@Exlaxcookies As an American, I wouldn't say there's no cultural difference between Canada and the U.S. I would, however say that because Canadian and U.S. culture varies greatly from province to province or state to state, that the level of difference varies greatly. I'm from the pacific northwest of the U.S., and when I go to Vancouver most people can't tell I'm not Canadian unless they've seen my I.D., but when I went to Calgary I was clearly not local.
If it helps, I will gladly accept you as American, my Canadian brothers. Ohhh Canada your home and native land. True Patriot love...Man I love that song XD
@Noroxi thats because you have a sense of humour (not wrong spelling for humor but the British spelling the the English Oxford dictionary) lol and thats an international language ... (I am not trying to say Canada and U.S speak two different languages... well some of us speak french... but yeah)
In 11th grade my law teacher told us at the start of every class some realy cool facts like: if the U.S tried to invade Canada which would be a repeat of the war of 1812 we get back the part we gave the States which is like a good chunk of the north-west US because of the 90 degree treaty. :)
Unitedstatesian is neither a name, nor spelt in 1 word. The demonym is 2 words UNITED STATESIAN and is called a DEMONYM! Therefore, you should send your comment the correct way next time: United Statesian is the best demonym and is what I have been using since I watched this video!
@zoomzoom5008 Canada were very heavy in the merachant navy that kept the UK with suplies during the blockade; and with the merchant navy being the most deadly job you could have during the war; they lost a ton of people. Just because they didn't send in a huge army into the war doesn't make their effort any less important to the outcome
Hawaii is actually closer to the mainland of America than it is towards the mainland of Oceania. Thus it is in North America, which is one of the 4 regions of America! *It is not in Polynesia of Oceania.*
I said the bulk of the English speaking population of Canada was originally transplanted from America. At the end of the American revolution, roughly 50,000 Loyalists moved to Canada, and founded modern day Ontario and New Brunswick. In fact, Toronto was founded by American settlers. A few maritime provinces had already existed, but even they got a lot of new settlers from the US (Nova Scotia for instance).
Plenty of out of work people here to make furniture and enter the logging industry, plenty of coal here to make electricity, plenty of oil here if we actually drilled for it, plenty of space here for tree farms.
my father works on an army base still and knows a lot about the current canadian military. we don't use old tech we are up to date with the tech. and the seaking has been gotten rid of. i suppose they were tired of using the helicopters as bombing ordinance. plus my uncle worked in JTF2 and was one of the worlds foremost bomb experts. its kind of hard to post some stuff ya know.
Traditionally the major western powers, primarily France and Britain, had had huge colonial empires, and were always quick to check any sort of spread of radical or reactionary ideologies. With the collapse of both of their empires during the war, it left them not only vulnerable to invasion in Europe after the war, but powerless to stop their former possessions from embracing these ideologies.
There was some Portugese sailor if I remember correctly. Also, the Romans and Vikings were there at an earlier point. Forget what happened to the Romans, but the Vikings somehow wound up thoroughly convinced the Native Americans (Canadians specifically) were magical and not to be angered, lest they vaporize the instigators.
i like it when people from canada say "i'm not an American " and people from the USA say that they are the only americans! they are both Americans Canada+USA = America !! America is the name of the continent ..that can be divided into 2 continents South and North America..and they become a subcontinent of the continent America America is the name given to the new world which was discovered by columbus after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci! America from Canada to Argentina
Guys lets stop with speculation. Both militaries have pros and cons. All militaries and nations have their own short comings. And its not like we can prove anything for even when something seems impossible to do people still accomplish it, plus were all allies and should try remaining allies agreed?
I am a proud Canadian from Nova Scotia............one of the friendliest provinces. We are VERY easy going and don't take insults personally. Oh yeah, I make my own beer!!!....lol
@kiege no its not. arrogant worms is just the pseudo name they used. go to loadingreadyrun com the main guy is Paul, the guy with the america hat is Graham. they started the site together but now they are pretty big with about 12 people and also very popular, theyr on the escapist now. on their website you will find this song, uploaded before this was (or possibly the same time cuz if you look at the channel, its theirs)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL OK 08/19/2021!!! My 35yr old son heard me listening to this,( just found it today, thank you The Longest Johns), and he starts singing... 'Merica! Fuck Ya!!!!! I was dying, rotflmao, so it's to late for Canada to kill me.
@NotTheLaw When did they say the Virgin Islands were in the Pacific? They said they were in "the ocean". Last time I checked, the Virgin Islands indeed are in an ocean. And if you want to get pedantic, all the oceans are connected anyway.
I come here every year to watch this video on canada day.
absolutely.
My father used to go around talking about this to basically anyone where the topic came up in conversation with the general idea that, "No one really adresses this that much." Then I had him listen to this song. He loved it.
Now, all of you at home may be asking yourselves "What's a Canada?"
I may be wrong, but I believe "Canada" is an old, old wooden ship from the Civil War-era.
That's a Candiru.
Canada's that prog-metal band with jazz and rap elements.
Nope, Canada's name was derived from Kanata, an Indigenous word for a village or settlement. It dates from before the first European settlement , about 1600.
"North, North Americans." LOL. I'm Scottish and lived in Canada for a couple of years 4 decades ago and loved it: Nice climate, nice folk, hardly any shopping mall massacres. Like Patton, I shall return.
Och that was MacArthur.
“Northern North Americans.” (But Alaska’s North-ER! Curse them! We’re surrounded by Americans.)
I am from the south. That means I'm southern. But I am also from north America..... Does that I am a northward southern?
No.
hell yeah
A southern northerner... I think
Diktator Alexander I'm from Colombia that is the country in the top of the continent of South America so I'm a northern southern American?
No, northern South American.
Good lord, 16 years…..
I remember watching this in high school on revver because it was the only video site not blocked on our school issued MacBooks(the school wasn’t as great as that implies). So glad that LRR is still going strong.
The oldest comments on this video are so insane lol. 3 people arguing with each other and some mysterious 3rd who vanished
13 years ago and somehow UA-cam still knew I would love this video.
My favourite thing about this song is how they add extra syllables to everything so it fits. Cracks me up.
Still one of my favourites after all these years. Just popped into my mind a few days ago and I had to look for it. lol
So true.
Oh, and one other thing: As a lover of language, the fact that the Arrogant Worms wrote a three minute song about the lexicological inconvenience of living in a country that is technically in 'America' warms my heart.
I'm going to sing this even though im from ireland XD
Why not? You're not American, either! :p ;)
mysterycheez :3
+Ita Corcoran Just change the words to I'm European or simply play thing song on the 4th of July to pock fun of the Yankees.
@@hackman669 today is the 4th of July, so today is the day Ita Corcoran sings this
Ya same
I absolutely agree. I am proud to be an American (from Canada) :)
9 years ago... :(
+Paderick Monahan 10.
+Gary Service not 10 until June 30th
+Paderick Monahan The true UA-cam pioneers
Yep and that sentiment has been stewing ever since they first put a voice to it.
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I used to date an American for 3 years (I'm British) , have a friend that's Canadian and sent me the song The War of 1812. I found it hilarious the American didn't. Funny that :-)
This is exactly how I feel. Although I am from the Netherlands in Europe, I've always hated the name "Americans" being standardly used for people from the USA. But it is indeed hard to find a suitable other name that pronounces as easily. But I will keep writing "USAmericans" though, because that is doable.
I love this song!
+HolandaChiquita I consistently use USAers.
Ma La Ah that is a good one as well. But do all people understand that one? Well, if they don't they should learn to read of course :P
+Ma La That sounds awful in English though.
Kaniner Flagg Yeah it does...:P
+HolandaChiquita Most people I know will either call themselves Canadians or if we're talking about the continent, North American. No one I know call themselves American.
America is all the continent, from Canada to Argentina , all the people are Americans, because we live in the same continent
from greenland to patagonia. greenland is the northernmost part of the american continent. greenland is geographically part of america,but denmark is the boss there.
@@teamawesomeness7137 that’s true but I will say “Greenland is the northernmost territory of the American continent” while on the other hand “Canada is the northernmost country of the American continent”!
1. That's why I like the idea of North and South America. At least it fucking makes sense.
2. Seriously, we didn't think naming ourselves through enough. What ENGLAND had discovered was what we saw as "America". We weren't aware it was going to be a continent at the time.
3. We're the United States (name) of America (place). Like the United Kingdom (name) of Great Britain (place).
Err... England did not discover America. (Neither did Great Britain, for nitpickers) The Norwegian viking chief Leif Eriksson was first by a lot, not counting the natives. Then, long after the Viking settlements were for some reason abandoned, came Christopher Columbus, whose journey was funded by Portugal, which was followed by several raids by Spain on mainly South American native civilisations. Great Britain merely colonized North Nmerica. They did none of the exploring.
Tengila North América was conquisted by Spanish Empire, and with the creation of the underkingdom (Virreinato) of Nueva España.
+Nighthawkifikation The America's were named such 300 years before the US took the name, named for Amerigo Vespucci who explored South America, and first concluded that the "New world" was not Asia, but a new continent, a north part first discovered by the vikings(and later the Italian Columbus sent by spain/portugal), and a south part. So...yeah.
Addressing point 3, the UK actually has the same problem: what do you call them? UKers? The best you can do is "people from the UK", which is matched by "people from the US". The main difference is that is is easy and comfortable to say "Welsh comedian" or "Scottish singer" worldwide, while "Alabaman" or "Indianan" are adjectives really only used within the USA, and even seem weird there.
So for the USA, there's no good name for us collectively, and no good geographically specific names either.
British has the same problem as American applied to Hawaii or Guam: there are territories that are part of the UK, and whose people are UK citizens, that are not in the British Isles, so they aren't British. And Ireland is part of the British Isles, but most of it is a country that isn't part of the UK.
Maybe we should just call everyone from the USA "New Yorkers", in the same spirit as calling everyone from the UK "English".
this got recommended to me today. had a double take at the "15 Years Ago" date!
how am I just finding this now? this is amazing
THIS IS #SORELATABLE!
because america is a continent,not a country. and people from the US aren't the only americans. also,if you look up continents on wikipedia in english and spanish,they report different things. english wikipedia calls australia a continent,leaving many countries either not part of any continent or part of asia. spanish wikipedia calls oceania a continent,leaving no country out of a continent.
@@teamawesomeness7137you’re being pedantic lmfao. most of the world is talking about people from the united states when they say “americans”. it’s just the way it goes.
Any country with a definitive article has a problem with this issue.
The Netherlands (Lowlands) are called Dutch for example, not Lowlanders.
The United States was to be like the European Union. A state is a country, not a province. They were so concerned with being different from the British, still are, that they didn't put a lot of throught into names.
In actuality the irony is that the term "American" was used by the British long before the United States became independent!
they are sometimes called netherlanders.
Amusingly, the UK has the same problem. English? Nope, Scotland. British? Nope, Northern Ireland. UKian?
@@gaelansteele9224 United Kingdomese
@@gaelansteele9224 british isles so… british is the correct
@@javierluissantosrubio6603 Some people might say “Ireland” is part of the British isles, so I don’t think “British” is correct, because Irish people are not British and Northern Irish people are truly Irish by logic, not just “UK residents” by country. *I believe that Northern Ireland residents do want to reunite with the country of Ireland however!*
Happy Canada Day
Lol old comment I still do watch this on Canada day or when it suddenly comes to mind like today
Canada? Oh you mean North USA! I love you guys!
I'm not complaining, but why was this recommended to me 14 years after release?
AS SOMEONE FROM THE US I HAVE OFFTEN WONDERED WHY ONLY THE US IS CALLED AMERICAN
+Cletus Biggum Because it's a shortened form of "United States American." Not hard to figure out.
Since every other country pretty much has adopted the term, it's annoying when some people argue semantics over it.
I think one of the Spanish dialects the term for USAers actually sounds fine but it doesn't translate to English as nicely.
+Cletus Biggum Once upon a time in the 1400's everyone who lived on the land mass of the Americas was called an American. But then 13 colonies, all of whom considered themselves independent countries, or states as they are often referred, decided to band together to throw out the British Monarchy. They then chose to name their new combined country in such a way as to respect the worth of each individual part, therefore becoming the United States of America. Just before the turn of the 19 century the members of this country started referring to themselves, and only themselves, as Americans. And the rest of the world sort of went with it so they'd not cause a ruckus, because most of the world couldn't care less anyway.
Yeah, someone from the US is just estadounidense, yet Unitedstatesish sounds odd. Just how it is, I guess.
TanyasDusk best comment.
Because they were the first independent country in the "Americas" So all other parts of the Americas were part of Britain or Spain or Portugal. So Brazil was Portuguese, Mexico was Spanish, Canada was British and The United States was American.
@MWD:
'Ya'll need to start doing like me and calling them "United Statians" '
F2F?
United Statesians sounds more better to call them versus United Statians though!
This is probably the oldest LRR I've watched
Doesn't get old. :-)
This is literally two of my favorite things LRR and the Arrogant Worms. Why did I not know this existed!?
Really makes me sad about our loss of the name "America". We are as American as those United Statesians
United Statesians? nah, How about Usonians?
Usonians? Well, it’s too bad that USA’s official name doesn’t have “Usonia” in its complete name “United States of America”.
So therefore … the demonym “United Statesian” is derived from the name “United States” and the demonym “Usonian” is derived from the name “Usonia”.
United Statesians? Yah, because USA calls itself United States for short officially! 👍
*Good thing that United Mexican States* (or any other country) *doesn’t call itself “United States” for short like that other than Mexico,* etc. if they also contain their own group of united states as well, other than USA itself! 🙂
My understanding is that you sent that perfect comment as a Canadian! 🙂
i am American, SOUTH AMERICAN, when i say this to some people they think i am from souther US states...thats why ppl hate "Americans" hahahaha
+BlueMoonLightDreams I feel your pain, Europeans love to call us Americans without making the distinction of NORTH American. :P
Tell you what: you can describe your nationality by using the appropriate demonym, and I'll use the demonym for my state (e.g Virginian). Using the demonym "American" is needlessly vague in most cases.
techmage89
well if only most americans where not stupid ignorant would be GREAT, OF COURSE i use my country's name first, example: I am from Ecuador. but then since they dont know shit about other countries they will say "oh where is that at??" ME: "its in south america" american: "wait...in the south? which state"
HOW THE FUCK u answer to that???
don't you consider yourself american,too,blueoonlightdreams? then calling most americans ignorant would be hypocritical of someone who considers themselves american.
I'm mexican, i'm american :)
you should ally with felipe contreras. felipe contreras is mexican and not offended to be called american.
I’m Canadian, I’m American :)
Not gonna lie I had to watch this for part of a class, but I love your guys work and watch alot of your stuff already haha.
what class was that?
how did i not found this out later lol this is a masterpiece
don't know why this was recommended to me in 2022, but ok!
One of my biggest pet peeves as an United States citizen is when people call United States citizens Americans like it is something special because technically everyone in North and South America is American (that's 35 countries). J/s.
plus territorries belonging to many countries,since
I love your comment, but I have no idea what “J/s” is supposed to mean.
By the way, following your example, which is correct, I must also add that technically …
- everyone in North and South Dakota is Dakotan (that’s 2 states within USA of North America).
- everyone in North and South Carolina is Carolinian (that’s 2 states within USA of North America).
- everyone in North and South Korea is Korean (that’s 2 countries located in Asia).
- everyone in Sudan and South Sudan is Sudanese (that’s 2 countries located in Africa).
- everyone in Micronesia is Micronesian, not just the country of FSM (that’s 5 countries located in Micronesia of Oceania).
- everyone in West Virginia and Virginia is Virginian (that’s 2 states within USA of North America).
- everyone in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea and Papua New Guinea is Guinean (that’s 3 countries located in Africa and 1 country of Oceania).
- everyone in Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo is Congolese (that’s 2 countries located in Africa).
- everyone in Ireland and Northern Ireland is Irish (that’s 1 country and 1 UK territory located in Europe).
- everyone in North Macedonia, as well as Western, Central and Eastern Macedonia is Macedonian (that’s 1 country and 3 Greece regions located in Europe).
- everyone in Georgia, South Georgia SSI and Georgia is Georgian (that’s 1 state located within USA of North America, 1 territory located within South America and 1 country located in Asia).
- everyone in Samoa and American Samoa is Samoan (that’s 1 country and 1 U.S. territory located in Oceania). And finally, being as 13 is considered an unlucky number …
- everyone in United Kingdom Virgin Islands 🇻🇬 and United States Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 is a Virgin Islander (that’s 2 territories located in North America). 🙂
@@craiglungren8703 Then, if we follow your logic, a West Indian is an Indian!
- A West Indian is from the West Indies.
- An Indian is from India.
@@Physics_of_the_Universe exactly, you got it!
On the other hand however, I do not like the term “West Indies” to mean “The Caribbean”.
So I prefer to call the Caribbean section of America as “Caribbean America” or “Insular America”! ➡️ I’m really saying that either of those choices works for me only! 🙂
Hence why I call them yankees.
To Americans though that name only ever applied to people in the north half of their east coast states, most modern usage in the states is a reference to the New England & New York areas (a tiny percentage of the country). Some from the former Confederate states (which had a war against the Yankees) will quickly correct anyone calling them that, though most will just go with it since they know what the intent was.
+SnowmanTF2 To the world, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is from the Northeast. To Northeasterners, a Yankee is from New England. To New Englanders, a Yankee is from Vermont. To Vermonters, a Yankee is someone who eats pie at breakfast.
+ScottishChristian I like the term Yankee and I'm from the states!.
because americans are not just people from the US. Soy estadounidense. Io sono statunitense.
Hence
It's been 14 years since I first saw this and I still think My Name Is Jonas is my favorite song off this album.
Nice! The idea of this video is very good and the images are funny. I'm brazilian and we have the same question about the loose of the right of calling ourselves Americans. In fact, it is an old debate in Latin america.
All the best,
Eduardo
ok algorithm, i'll watch a 16 year old video
2019???
2020
More like American't.
+Hammdog Porkington Or Obama Can't! Or Amera failed!!!!
@andrewm153351 lots of the cast and crew were not American however - Sam Worthington included (he's an Aussie). And without a director (or plot and script), there is no movie so... without James Cameron, no Avatar. And btw, it was filmed in New Zealand as well, not just the US. And the studio was in New Zealand.
@nayr3195 the current line-up for Arrogant worms are
Trevor Strong
Mike McCormick
Chris Patterson
Past members have been
John Whytock
Steve Wood
so unless these people are in LRR these groups are NOT the same
United States of America? More like South Canada!
Lol, but everyone at that point will have to remember that South Canada is factually “The South part of Canada”! 🙂 So South Canada cannot be the same thing as United States of America, although it is the country that is south of Canada’s border.
Happy tenth anniversary of this...this...thing.
July 2nd, 2 days late.
I'm a U.S.AIYAN
Usonian? Unisian? Usanian?
I admit American sounds better than Unitedstatesian.
This was done with serious skill! i love it! ^^
@DarkFetishYaoi
the classification title which accurately extends to two continents.
Bullshit. I'm a proud Canadian, born and raised in Canada and Canadian right down to my red and white snowshoes, and still I say bullshit. With authority.
The USA is not Canada, but it really is one of the finest and friendliest countries in the world. They treat foreign visitors (including my humble self) as honoured guests and go out of their way to do so, even at great expense to themselves, and that is the very definition of class.
If other countries were even half as cool as the USA and Canada, the world really would be a better place.
I can relate to Canada, I really appreciate Canadians, you guys are really cool and polite, but, my experience with most Americans were disappointing. I still have some American friends but most people from the US say stupid shit about me or my country, when I don't say a single thing against them. I totally agree with you about Canada, but not about the US.
MagazinePhil "most people from the US". How much is most? 50% of the 300+ million of the citizens? 75%? I'm amazed you have first hand experience with that many people.
Until they run out of WATER and they have.
Not all citizens of the States are bad, but a lot of them are. I won't apologize for them on their behalf (even though I'm a US citizen myself) because they won't learn anything from someone else apologizing for them and I'd spend every moment of the rest of my life doing that. I'd rather spend it reading or talking to people that I can actually have a civil conversation with (which sadly doesn't include many people around where I live).
Sentinel, rest assured that Canadians are fully aware of that. Prejudice is simply judging a whole group by the actions of a few- it is generalizing in a stupid way. EVERY group has the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly among them.
Goes to show what happens when you take a very long name. You wind up being known by your nickname. We're just lazy is all. USers, USAers. Or just Yewess would do as well, but it's rather too late now. "God Bless America" doesn't include Costa Rica. "Proud to be an American" doesn't include Bolivians. Native Americans, African Americans or Asian Americans are not citizens of any other country but the US of A.
+Carolyn Boyce Call em Yankees. Anyone that lives in the Americas in American.
+hackman669 thanks so much for that reply. Exactly what i have been saying for years now. America is America...not just USA.
I call my USA friends USians (You-shians, or Awe-shians). I guess it is an inside joke we have between ourselves now.
hyacinthdibley
Makes sense. Say hello to my fellow "Americans" up north.
Carolyn Boyce
"US Citizen" would work as well since before the United States became a melting pot of cultures saying "I am X" generally meant your culture/ethnicity was X. Back when William the Conqueror became King of England, you had the Anglo-Saxons who made up most of the population and the Normans (themselves a mix of French and Norse culture and ethnicity) who made up the nobility. While England existed before this, it wasn't until at least a generation after that the idea of an "English" culture first appeared. Before this mix of Anglo-Saxon, French, and Norse cultures, saying "I am English" actually meant "I'm from England." The US is basically the same since the only thing making someone "American" in the regard many people use it is that you're a citizen of the US. "US Citizen" says it just as easily without obligating tacking on "x cultural/ethnic group term" onto it (which kind of goes against the idea of being a nation where cultural and ethnic differences shouldn't really matter), therefore reducing the number of syllables required, while being less presumptuous.
People from the UK are UKaysese (you Kay sese)
LOVE IT!!
We invited you to be part of America back when we kicked the whole thing off- not our fault you wanted to be British. :)
+linkmaxwell I think most would be and in fact are very happy to have declined that invitation
+linkmaxwell By "asking" you mean trying to kill us and steal land? Because that's what happened. And we were all British back then (excluding the Natives, French, Dutch, etc of course), including both sides of your Revolution. Besides, no one in Canada regrets the decision to not become "American". Just sayin'. :P
Hey, just wanted to point out that we had "dibs" on the plain "American" by calling the first official national name based around the continent's. :)
+chapachuu The American way
Blame the British, they named everything.
It should perhaps really be called Vespuccia, but think about it: "My fellow Vespuccians" and "God Bless Vespuccia" "Vespuccian Graffiti" etc, etc. Who would take them seriously with a name like that?
Actually I think we can consider this one of the examples where the Founding Fathers lacked foresight into exactly WHAT they were doing. They hoped that they would be the first of the European colonies in the Americas to become a sovereign nation and hoped other nations in the future would embrace the ideals that they were trying to revive and strengthen by creating a republic, but apparently failed to account for the possibility that just about every other colony in the Americas would, at some point or another, become a republic after gaining their independence. If not that, they either picked the name "United States of America" to proudly declare to the world exactly what kind of government they had chosen to become or because they had a hope that the other colonies would join us in a single state spanning two whole continents at some point.
united states is not a form of government. it is the name of the union itself.
Hi Oilerman. It is true that Canadians don't call ourselves Americans. But, my country of origin is Argentina. Whenever I speak Spanish, I may well define me as "Americano", in the sense the song suggests. If I refer to people born in the States, I will call them "estadounidenses". I guess that is something that happens in the suthernmost "American" countries. I have no idea when the US decided to call the country as it it were the continent.
lol i love that show!
@Otox No It's like the example in the song , what if France decided to call itself Europe. I think a lot of other European countries would think that a bit.....arrogant..
@mirx3007
I think its worth noting that US citizens have been referred to almost exclusively as Americans since arguably the mid 1600s. We also didn't invent the term, Britain did. They say "where were we when the US went and took the name American away?" the answer is that they didn't exist yet, or were actually included in the name "American" as Canadians excluding the French were "American colonists" until the Revolution split us.
This was beautiful ; v ;
Of course it could be worse. Guy who got it named after him was named Amerigo Vespucci. So we could all be living in North, Central, or South Vespucci
I have loved this song for so many years. I dunno how more canucks don't know it
@bs22343 Telephone was invented in Brantford Ont, home of my brother and of Wayne Gretzky. It's where Bell's famous "Watson, come here" was made.
The history says in 1507 the name of america is for our continent. 200 years before usa's independence. The name of continents are historical or cultural names not geological.
One person couldn't get the year right.
@Exlaxcookies As an American, I wouldn't say there's no cultural difference between Canada and the U.S. I would, however say that because Canadian and U.S. culture varies greatly from province to province or state to state, that the level of difference varies greatly. I'm from the pacific northwest of the U.S., and when I go to Vancouver most people can't tell I'm not Canadian unless they've seen my I.D., but when I went to Calgary I was clearly not local.
If it helps, I will gladly accept you as American, my Canadian brothers. Ohhh Canada your home and native land. True Patriot love...Man I love that song XD
Since I love your comment, I would like to know: Are you from United States?
this was the first video of yours i ever saw~!
@Noroxi thats because you have a sense of humour (not wrong spelling for humor but the British spelling the the English Oxford dictionary) lol and thats an international language ... (I am not trying to say Canada and U.S speak two different languages... well some of us speak french... but yeah)
In 11th grade my law teacher told us at the start of every class some realy cool facts like: if the U.S tried to invade Canada which would be a repeat of the war of 1812 we get back the part we gave the States which is like a good chunk of the north-west US because of the 90 degree treaty. :)
Wait does that include oregon?
The country is named The United States of America.
"America" is the entire new world.
Unitedstatesian is the best name and what I have been using since I watched this video
Unitedstatesian is neither a name, nor spelt in 1 word. The demonym is 2 words UNITED STATESIAN and is called a DEMONYM!
Therefore, you should send your comment the correct way next time: United Statesian is the best demonym and is what I have been using since I watched this video!
@zoomzoom5008 Canada were very heavy in the merachant navy that kept the UK with suplies during the blockade; and with the merchant navy being the most deadly job you could have during the war; they lost a ton of people. Just because they didn't send in a huge army into the war doesn't make their effort any less important to the outcome
us virgin islands are in the caribbean,which is one of the 4 regions of america. hawaii is in polynesia,one of the 4 regions of oceania.
Hawaii is actually closer to the mainland of America than it is towards the mainland of Oceania. Thus it is in North America, which is one of the 4 regions of America! *It is not in Polynesia of Oceania.*
United-States of Vespuccia?
I love this video!
I said the bulk of the English speaking population of Canada was originally transplanted from America. At the end of the American revolution, roughly 50,000 Loyalists moved to Canada, and founded modern day Ontario and New Brunswick. In fact, Toronto was founded by American settlers. A few maritime provinces had already existed, but even they got a lot of new settlers from the US (Nova Scotia for instance).
Plenty of out of work people here to make furniture and enter the logging industry, plenty of coal here to make electricity, plenty of oil here if we actually drilled for it, plenty of space here for tree farms.
As an eastern northern northern american, I love this vid!
@Canuckchick52
I am serious, I thought since Mexico connected north and south America it would mean that their is just one continent, America.
my father works on an army base still and knows a lot about the current canadian military. we don't use old tech we are up to date with the tech. and the seaking has been gotten rid of. i suppose they were tired of using the helicopters as bombing ordinance. plus my uncle worked in JTF2 and was one of the worlds foremost bomb experts. its kind of hard to post some stuff ya know.
Everyone I know calls it the US or the USA as well and I live in New Zealand.
Traditionally the major western powers, primarily France and Britain, had had huge colonial empires, and were always quick to check any sort of spread of radical or reactionary ideologies. With the collapse of both of their empires during the war, it left them not only vulnerable to invasion in Europe after the war, but powerless to stop their former possessions from embracing these ideologies.
Hello! I am American (or UnitedStates-ian, if you prefer) and I love both the USA and Canada!
Also, this song is awesome xD
There was some Portugese sailor if I remember correctly. Also, the Romans and Vikings were there at an earlier point. Forget what happened to the Romans, but the Vikings somehow wound up thoroughly convinced the Native Americans (Canadians specifically) were magical and not to be angered, lest they vaporize the instigators.
@Canuckchick52
No, I just always thought a big piece of land surrounded by water is a continent. I always had bad grades in geology.
A masterpiece.
This song is not dumb at all!! The Arrogant Worms are just having fun , making up ridiculously hilarious songs that are made to annoy you!!
i like it when people from canada say "i'm not an American " and people from the USA say that they are the only americans! they are both Americans
Canada+USA = America !!
America is the name of the continent ..that can be divided into 2 continents South and North America..and they become a subcontinent of the continent America
America is the name given to the new world which was discovered by columbus
after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci!
America from Canada to Argentina
I would really like to know what country are you a resident of? 🙂
I’m assuming you’re either from Canada or United States.
I've never really appreciated how Canada has two separate land borders with one country until now.
brilliant song, brilliant video, go canada!
Guys lets stop with speculation. Both militaries have pros and cons. All militaries and nations have their own short comings. And its not like we can prove anything for even when something seems impossible to do people still accomplish it, plus were all allies and should try remaining allies agreed?
@nayr3195
As a Canadian, I actually think that analogy is pretty funny, and arguably true for many Americans.
this is brilliant!!!!!!! soo funny!
I am a proud Canadian from Nova Scotia............one of the friendliest provinces. We are VERY easy going and don't take insults personally. Oh yeah, I make my own beer!!!....lol
@kiege no its not. arrogant worms is just the pseudo name they used. go to loadingreadyrun com the main guy is Paul, the guy with the america hat is Graham. they started the site together but now they are pretty big with about 12 people and also very popular, theyr on the escapist now. on their website you will find this song, uploaded before this was (or possibly the same time cuz if you look at the channel, its theirs)
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL OK
08/19/2021!!!
My 35yr old son heard me listening to this,( just found it today, thank you The Longest Johns), and he starts singing...
'Merica! Fuck Ya!!!!!
I was dying, rotflmao, so it's to late for Canada to kill me.
@NotTheLaw When did they say the Virgin Islands were in the Pacific? They said they were in "the ocean". Last time I checked, the Virgin Islands indeed are in an ocean. And if you want to get pedantic, all the oceans are connected anyway.
most excellent song ever! XD
I live in teh US but I've always wanted to go to Canada. Me and my friends plan on going there our senior year.