Are Argentinians "American"? The Linguistic Debate Explained

追加: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]I'm not exactly sure why this happened, but anyway, on on the video that I posted, I had a lot of people that were like, "Argentinians are Americans, too.

[00:00:09]Um you know, it's not just um the US isn't isn't the only country in America." And I totally agree with that.

[00:00:17]I totally get it, but at the same time, in English, we just don't have a term to refer to ourselves as like American like US Americans, right? We always have to either hyphenate or uh make the distinction. And I just thought that that was I mean, I heard this a lot, too, in Argentina, but it's easier when you're navigating it in Spanish because we have a word estadounidense that Right. You know, can compensate for that. So, I just wanted to know from you like, what's your position on that? I mean, how strongly do you feel >> [laughter] >> about that point?

[00:00:52]I don't know why, but I don't I don't think like many other people or I don't I don't get um I mean, I I It's important from an uh you know, an identity perspective.