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Nickelodeon\'s 1994 cartoon \'\'AaahhRealMonsters\'\' is a Gross-Out cartoon show, full of sadistic and demonic creatures living in a garbage dump. Having a sadist teacher makes it even more worse. The They go so far as poping out of toilets to scare the living daylights out of the human population, as their assignments.
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Nickelodeon\\\'s 1994 cartoon \\\'\\\'AaahhRealMonsters\\\'\\\' is a Gross-Out cartoon show, full of sadistic and demonic creatures living in a garbage dump. Having a sadist teacher makes it even more worse. They go so far as poping out of toilets to scare the living daylights out of the human population, as their assignments.
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It goes farther than that, @/MrDeath. Though it does help that the United States was the first nation in the Americas founded from a European colony, the English language usage of the word \
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It goes farther than that, @/MrDeath. Though it does help that the United States was the first nation in the Americas founded from a European colony, the English language usage of the word \\\"American\\\" to mean \\\"Person living in the colonies of British America\\\" goes back as far as \\\'\\\'\\\'1648\\\'\\\'\\\'. By the time of the American Revolution, the meaning behind the word \\\"American\\\" was firmly rooted.
The problem is that people like @/MakiP don\\\'t realize that, and they try to turn it into an issue of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political correctness]]. The problem stems from the fact that the Spanish and Portuguese languages have their own name for Americans in their own language, and in Spanish and Portuguese, \\\"Americano\\\" means \\\"Person from the American continents.\\\"
When they see that the word closest-sounding to \\\"Americano\\\" in their language is used for \\\"Citizen of the United States\\\" in other languages, they \\\'\\\'\\\'wrongly\\\'\\\'\\\' assume that Americans consciously appropriated the gentilic for themselves, and the typical favorite accusation is \\\"[[GlobalIgnorance the yanquis think they\\\'re the only country on the continent]]\\\" or \\\"[[TheEmpire they\\\'re evil arrogant imperialists]].\\\"
We would all just get along a lot more nicely if they would look past the \\\"[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend False Friend]]\\\" phenomenon that is behind this, and accept that other languages have developed terms in different ways from theirs.
In fact, we might even say that what people like @/MakiP are doing is a form of cultural imperialism, trying to bully other languages into doing things \\\'\\\'their\\\'\\\' way.
The problem is that people like @/MakiP don\\\'t realize that, and they try to turn it into an issue of [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political correctness]]. The problem stems from the fact that the Spanish and Portuguese languages have their own name for Americans in their own language, and in Spanish and Portuguese, \\\"Americano\\\" means \\\"Person from the American continents.\\\"
When they see that the word closest-sounding to \\\"Americano\\\" in their language is used for \\\"Citizen of the United States\\\" in other languages, they \\\'\\\'\\\'wrongly\\\'\\\'\\\' assume that Americans consciously appropriated the gentilic for themselves, and the typical favorite accusation is \\\"[[GlobalIgnorance the yanquis think they\\\'re the only country on the continent]]\\\" or \\\"[[TheEmpire they\\\'re evil arrogant imperialists]].\\\"
We would all just get along a lot more nicely if they would look past the \\\"[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend False Friend]]\\\" phenomenon that is behind this, and accept that other languages have developed terms in different ways from theirs.
In fact, we might even say that what people like @/MakiP are doing is a form of cultural imperialism, trying to bully other languages into doing things \\\'\\\'their\\\'\\\' way.
