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Other languages, including French, Japanese, and Russian, use cognates of American to refer to people from the United States. In contrast, others, particularly, Spanish and Portuguese, primarily use terms derived from United States or North America. There are various other local and colloquial names for Americans.
Russian: аляскинец, romanized: alyaskinets [3] American Samoa: American Samoan Samoan: Amerika Samoa Arizona: Arizonan Arizonian [4] Spanish: Arizonense
The Spanish and Portuguese termination -o usually denotes the masculine, and is normally changed to feminine by dropping the -o and adding -a. The plural forms are usually -os and -as respectively. Adjectives ending in -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. "the English", "the Cornish").
The Spanish variation yanqui is used in Latin American Spanish, [57] often derogatorily. [58] Venezuelan Spanish has the word pitiyanqui derived around 1940 from petit yankee or petit yanqui , [ 59 ] a derogatory term for those who profess an exaggerated and often ridiculous admiration for anything from the United States.
A decade-old quote by Donald Trump, Jr. resurfaced in a New York Times column over the weekend. "In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross ...
Gringo (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n ɡ oʊ /, Spanish: [ˈɡɾiŋɡo], Portuguese: [ˈɡɾĩɡu]) (masculine) or gringa (feminine) is a term in Spanish and Portuguese for a foreigner. In Spanish, the term usually refers to English-speaking Anglo-Americans. There are differences in meaning depending on region and country.
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $161,982,857 in 2024), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
Despite Western sanctions and the war in Ukraine, Russia's most affluent cities have seen a boom in economic growth, with modern infrastructure, digital services, and cheap mobile data usage ...