This also means Trump doesn’t need to worry about a 25% tariff on foreign religions.
first American pope
Pope Francis, who was born in South America: “Am I a joke to you?”
But “American” is what people from the USA are usually called.
Yeah, I sometimes say USAian or United Statesian, but that obviously doesn’t flow. It exists in other languages, but not English.
Also, personal nitpick, I don’t love when the continent of America refers to both N and S America.
“But it’s one landmass!!1!” Yeah, so is AfroEurasia. Continents don’t actually have an agreed upon meaning, so… it’s just, like, my opinion man.
You could always go with the classic “Yankee.”
Pope Yippee ki-yay
I love it! Pope Bob rolls off the tongue better though so I’ve decided to go with that one lol
I like the term seppo myself
For the non-Australians, Yank rhymes with Septic Tank, thus seppo
Wait, are you Australian or Cockney?
Australia has a small amount of this type of slang, but its usually more offensive than the mother british type
The funny thing is it’s always South Americans trying to force their cultural norms on others and getting angry.
To be fair, South Americans have a lot of very legitimate reasons to be angry at the US.
Wdym? I’ve always thought this USian thing was just typical Western Europeans + Aus/Kiwis
As an American, I’m fine with that. Some of us at least have a sense of humor about ourselves. And as an American, I know better than anybody that there’s plenty to make fun of here.
first Yankee* Pope.
The United States is the only country in the world that does not have a gentile for itself. They call themselves citizens of the continent that they share with other countries, seeming to appropriate the entire continent.
It’s one of those things that made sense at the time, but looks a little weird if you don’t account for the history.
Folks living in the British colonies wanted to differentiate themselves from the English, so they called themselves “Americans” because they were in the “American colonies.”
The name stuck after the colonies became the United States.
But the same did not happen in the Spanish or French colonies, or even in other English colonies such as Canada or Belize. It is still weird and pretentious
The hostility with England has a big role in “American” sticking. It used to be a general term for any European colonist coming over to the Americas, but when British colonists started getting more and more pissed at the homeland, they started embracing that general term more and more.
This stuff always looks a little weird in a vacuum, but if you playback the tape and get familiar with the history, it makes a lot more sense.
At the time it was the only “country” on the continent. There were people actually arguing for not including the “of America” too, so it would just be “United States”
It’s a very American thing to do.
It makes a lot more sense if you look back at what the colonies were called when the name was adopted. It’s really just a holdover from a naming solution that wasn’t very weird during the time that it was introduced. Language evolves in weird and funky ways.
I like the spanish demonym for those of us from the United States: estadounidense. If you were to translate it literally it’d be like unitedstatesian, like brazilian (braziliense)
Id love to hear someone from Kentucky take a crack at that one
Oh god, I’m not sure I’d be able to keep a straight face if someone pronounced that with a southern drawl.
This is a really extreme example of something Ive noticed lately about accents transcending languages. Like people have a tendency to maintain certain aspects of accents even when speaking a different language than where the accent derived from.
For example, the new pope yesterday speaking Italian still had Chicagoan inflections when speaking Italian. I once dated a girl from South America who was ethnically entirely Italian, and she spoke Spanish but with a northern Italian accent. Her Mom did too but it far more noticeably.
Rural American people completely ignoring the pronunciation of Spanish words and having thick drawl is virtually the same thing, but stupider
It’s not always the case that you have the same accent in a different language. That guy is extreme to the point of caricature. I’ve been told I sound argentinian when I speak spanish yet I’m a new englander who learned spanish in colombia.
This dude was just doing it for fun - I’m fairly certain.
He has been protecting pedophiles in the past: https://willcountygazette.com/stories/671124585-if-he-saw-and-stayed-silent-he-s-not-a
That’s a job requirement with the Catholic Church.
Damn, Vatican, read the room, mate
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-cardinal-robert-prevost/
Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty. This week, however, he was at the Vatican with hundreds of other prelates as the cardinal electors gather for the conclave to choose a new pontiff.
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“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”
so… the u.s. circling the drain of democracy is what finally got them a turn.
This was the opinion of one cardinal, not like it was an official stance of the church.
I don’t think he’s a cardinal, just a bishop. But I also don’t really know how the Catholic church works
Bishops move diagonally
