I want to hear what insults you have heard others using to refer to americans

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    The only actual slur I know of is that North Koreans call Americans “white devils”. Which is ironic if you know North Korea’s racial demographics compared to America’s.

  • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    Anti American slurs always amuses me. Like theres some dude out in bumfuckegypt that can’t stand the fact that I exist lol. All I’ve literally done is eat burgers and crank my hog for the last 30 years 🙆‍♂️

  • 667@lemmy.radio
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    8 hours ago

    What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.

    What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.

    What do you call someone who speaks one language? An American.

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    The term “Yank” is incredibly loaded with all kinds of stereotypes the world over, but it has a very different meaning in the US.

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        It’s Cockney rhyming slang. If you want to come up with a slang term for a something, you take something that rhymes “yank → septic tank” and then cut it down “septic tank → seppo”

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          Jeebus, that’s a lot of work. “Americans are loud and smell bad” seems so much easier.

          Maybe Americans are lazy time efficient with their communications. What a zinger.

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            Part of the point (the whole point?) of rhyming slang is that it’s opaque and convoluted. That’s what makes it fun. It also makes it a bit of a shibboleth - you only understand it if you’re part of the culture.

            If you’re eating with an Australian and they ask you to “pass the dead horse”, it means they think you’re Aussie enough to know what it means. Or they know that you won’t know what it means and they’re fucking with you intentionally.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    Yankee, Yank, Yanqui

    Seppo I guess but that doesn’t hit as hard because silly

    “Freedumb” is another one that’s too silly to really be offensive

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    “I object to the term ‘loud-mouth American’. It’s a tautology.” --Magda S. in Fast Forward (maybe?)