Poll of the Day > What are american born people called who move to another country?

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teddy241
05/13/21 9:48:15 AM
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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

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Far-Queue
05/13/21 9:51:06 AM
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Traitors

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FatalAccident
05/13/21 9:51:24 AM
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Theyre American

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ReggieTheReckless
05/13/21 9:52:26 AM
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American expatriates?
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lorekai
05/13/21 9:53:18 AM
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I would assume American, unless they get naturalised then it's up to them what they want to be.
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SKARDAVNELNATE
05/13/21 9:53:26 AM
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teddy241 posted...
lets say they move to france. Are they American French?
I don't know if the French use the same naming scheme.

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MeteoricBurst
05/13/21 9:53:39 AM
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Um, expats?

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

That would only be if one of the parents was actually French and had a child with an American. But the child would still be called French in normal conversation anyways. Even if both parents were foreigners it would still be French. Nobody outside the US uses these hyphenated terms regularly.

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JOExHIGASHI
05/13/21 10:00:03 AM
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Just French

There is no German french or English french or any other combination. It's purely an american thing to make a distinction on your country of origin.

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Blightzkrieg
05/13/21 10:01:20 AM
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I think historically they're called the confederates

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Fam_Fam
05/13/21 10:01:55 AM
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fatsos
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Nichtcrawler X
05/13/21 10:14:45 AM
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People who might get into a lot of trouble because of American tax laws.

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CaptainStrong
05/13/21 10:26:37 AM
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Lucky
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papercup
05/13/21 10:29:48 AM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
I think historically they're called the confederates
lol

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Le_Corbeau
05/13/21 10:34:17 AM
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Depends on WHY they left.

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BUMPED2002
05/13/21 11:10:43 AM
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Immigrants! But if you move to a European country, you're just going home.

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Mead
05/13/21 11:19:04 AM
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Expats or Americans abroad

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Dikitain
05/13/21 2:31:35 PM
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teddy241 posted...
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

Technically they aren't American then since they immigrated too, just 15,000 years before we did. And if you want to get even more technical, everyone is African since we all started there and migrated across Pangea.

But as a serious answer, adding someone's home country first is just a way to honor their home culture, since American culture is largely just a mix of the hundreds of other cultures from around the world.

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Zeus
05/13/21 2:33:13 PM
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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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