because growing up, I only ever heard that word from neoconfederate types, and so I’m conditioned to associate that word with “the South shall rise again” bullshit
I think Fidel Castro had a part in making popular yankee as an insult since at least in latam he was the main dude that used it as an insult
And i know that since pre-fidel cubans used to say gringo to refer to americans but Fidel would instead use yankee during his speeches
if fidel called me a yankee it’d stingHe may be gone but Raul Castro and Miguel Diaz Canel can still call you a yankee
I’m certain they called some of those DSA members yankee after they left.
Oh my god I completely forgot about the DSA clown troupe adventure in Cuba.
You gotta reframe it just a little bit and associate it with the words “the Global South shall rise again” now.
because growing up, I only ever heard that word from neoconfederate types
this is precisely why i use yankee for all usamericans, its shorter than usamerican and it pisses off the literal worst
s“usamerican” needs to be part of the Hexbear style guide, and it needs to be enforced.
(Or "Yankee"is fine too)
Usian works too IMO, but yeah yaKKKee is better
lmao fucking yankee 🤭
Literally all of Latin America uses it as a pejorative for any American, along with gringo. We get exploited and brutalized by Americans from the north and the south, you’re all Yankees to us.
growing up, I only ever heard that word from neoconfederate types, and so I’m conditioned to associate that word with “the South shall rise again” bullshit
It’s not likely that anyone but yourselves will care about the finer subdivisions of different kinds of yankee
Yeah whenever I’ve called Americans Yanks they always get confused and think I’m talking about the sportsball team, but it’s definitely not confusing to the rest of the world.
Those jedi mindtricks don’t work on Americans. We’re too dumb.
Yankee -> Yank -> sceptic tank -> seppo.
Rhyming slang is great, come have a butchers I’m not telling porkies you old raspberry.
In Japanese ヤンキー (katakana for Yankee) is used as a term for delinquents and bad-behaving teenagers
Whence 元ヤン motoyan for an ex-delinquent. Guess where I learned that word from!
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
“We Will Talk of Nothing Else”: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
In many languages, “yankee” or some variant of it is used to refer to Americans in general, like “yanqui” in Spanish or “jenkki” in Finnish.
Its not an insult, that’s just what you’re called
no no it’s both
Yanqui
u.x.o.
Koreans sometimes say “yanknom,” yankee bastard, so you can also use that.
When a Yankee is eating
Fine, we’ll call the likes of ye seppos, like @erika3sis said
I specifically have my sort of ill-defined “tripartite division” idea, which is to say that of the people who self-identify as “Americans”, that Seppo refers really more to capitalists and their lackeys than to anyone else, whereas American per se refers basically to class conscious members of what’s often called the “American diaspora”, and Usonian refers to… honestly everyone else.
The country is however called Seppoland and its people may be called Seppolanders.
This terminology is a bit opaque and hard to explain well, so I tend not to use it around others very often.
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
“We Will Talk of Nothing Else”: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837
Yankee just means American (as in USAian)
Before the US civil war it was already a term for all Americans. Once the confederacy declared “independence” they wanted to drop all ties to the US government and its citizens. Thus, Yankee became a (an attempt anyway) derogatory term for those who remained US citizens who at the time were basically all located above the Mason-Dixon line. And it’s just sort of stuck since then. Those outside the US context just use it for every American. The most famous usage is probably the Vietnamese anti-American propaganda saying like “Go home, Yankee! Your government doesn’t care about you!” and stuff like that
On a personal note or whatever, half my family is from the deep south, so I also grew up understanding it as a sort of derogatory term used for those from the northern states. It’s pretty fucking weird to realize eventually that your family members are using an “insult” from the pro-slavery rebel government towards you (not me but my dad. So, also kind of at me…). Not to credit them too much though because I doubt they know really what they’re saying in that respect and they do it as a joking thing mostly from what I saw. Of course sentiments of “war of northern aggression” and “MLK was a troublemaker” (heavily censoring that second one…) are still alive even among people that most outside observers probably wouldn’t clock as super racist upon casual observation. When you’re their nephew or grandson though, well, I can only confirm all the assumptions people have towards white southerners. (No, not literally everyone, obviously, before someone comes yelling at me. But it’s a big percentage that are seemingly fine with everything from casual slur usage to aggressively wishing death on people. Obama being in office in particular sent my uncle down a pretty wild path)
