LogFAQs > #953866882

American ex-pats, usually.

teddy241 posted... lets say they move to france. Are they American French?

I always think of how we call people in america by their country first ie Irish American. But usually in those cases the person is legitimately Irish by blood and happens to live in America. Nobody really is American other than the natives

They would need citizenship before a consideration like that. If you're just a resident of the country and still just have your native citizenship, you're still designated by your country... unless you're black and in the US, at which point the media will often describe you as African-American even if you're neither American nor hail from Africa (well, at least not for several hundreds of years anyway).

Blightzkrieg posted...

I think historically they're called the confederates

I think historically this is called a joke that doesn't land.


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