I respect your opinion, because obviously, Canada is in north America, and so we should all be called Americans, but as a french canadian myself, i am NOT American. Nothing wrong with being American obviously. American,for some reason, refers to people who are from the US. I would be curious to know where it originated from.
And about this movie, it is absolutely logical to say it is an American movie, because it's from north America, etc. But it just ain't. It's a french canadian movie. It's not American, it's not French either. We have our own culture, own way to speak french - it really is a slang french, not very distinguished if you ask me - but that's who we are. I've struggled a lot about my roots, but since living abroad, i feel more proud of them. And when I see a movie like this, i can say I'm proud of being french canadian.
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thepinkrabbit
9 years ago
well I disagree, to me an european, you are an american, like you call germans or frenchs ' europeans'. a guy from brasil is an american, a guy from french guyana, is french but still, he is an american as he lives on the american continent.
Now A guy from the US , that's an etatunien.( https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%89tats-Unien )
the problem comes from the fact US americans are fu*** morons and self centered, so they decided that their country represented the whole american continent.
You might disagree with this, but this is how must of us call you, from the name of your continent. And it's going to be more and more used like that as a retaliation from the fact "north americans" don't use europeans nation names but just a random 'europeans' like we are the same you know... people in most europeans country wants the death of the european unions and want to stick to their nation and feel quite offended when they are patronized by being labeled as "europeans", as if a guy from latvia or belgium have anything in common.
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sillyhat
9 years ago
You might disagree with this, but this is how must of us call you, from the name of your continent.
That's not true. It's far more common in French to call people from the USA "Américains" than "États-uniens," which sounds too artificial. And this is true for almost every other language. Spanish and Portuguese are about the only languages where there is some controversy about this.
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