Why do you call United States Yankees ?
It would be nice if the lables were dropped, we are all family, our address is the world last time I checked.
Yankee doodle dandy..
Its actually mocking a british song.
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It would be nice if the lables were dropped, we are all family, our address is the world last time I checked.
Yankee doodle dandy..
Its actually mocking a british song.
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it is another word for WANKERS
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Well what if someone doesnt know who the yankees are and where they are from?
If it says United States Yankees than someone in a different part of the world for example knows that they’re from the states
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Yankee doodle dandy..
Its actually mocking a british song.
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Ask Mr. Bush
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origins of the term are disputed. One theory claims that it originated in the 1760s from an English rendering of the Dutch Jan Kees (the two most common given names of the Dutch), a nickname used by Dutch settlers in upstate New York referring to the New Englanders who were migrating to their region. (see Martin Van Buren) The word may also be derived from "yancey", the word many Native American tribes used to refer to Whites during the early colonial period. The first recorded use of the term by an Englishman to refer to Americans appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Admiral Lord Nelson.
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Then again, Americans call the British ‘Limeys’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
I agree drop the labels – no two U.S. citizens are the same; give everyone a chance before you write off a whole nation!As for the source of Yankees doesn’t it come from the song yankee doodle?
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The term itself relates to settlers in the North East prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It became a derogatory term during the American Civil war, where the northern forces (the Unionist Army) were sometimes referred to as the Yankees by the Confederate Army. Consequently, people from Northern US states are sometimes referred to as Yankees.
This is a derogatory term, although, in my experience people from Southern states (where the Confederate Army was based in the Civil War) actually find it more offensive since they’re not from the North!
I genuinely believe that not many people outside the US actually know the origins of this and how offensive it can be. I don’t think it’s really in common use in the US to be honest. I’ve heard some Southerners talk about "damn yanks", but it’s few and far between.
I do agree that labels and stereotypes that people find offensive should be dropped, and that applies equally to religion, race, and colour as well as nationality.
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Before New England was New England, the Dutch had a claim to a colony in America. For a while, Dutch colonists and English colonists lived side-by-side. The Dutch would pejoratively call an English Johnny-come-lately "Jan Kees" (the J pronounced as a Y), meaning literally "John Cheese." (Why? Ask the Dutch.) "Jan Kees" eventually became "Yankees."
Your spirit of internationalism is laudable, but we Yanks don’t really mind the moniker. Anyway, "Yankee" sounds better than "Earthling." ;o>
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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can’t say –
People just liked it better that way…
— They Might Be Giants, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
It was a derogatory term first used by the Dutch to describe British colonists in Colonial America.
Every nation in the world has a derogatory collective noun attached to them. Of course, you’re right, we should all get along, break down the barriers, love thy fellow man, but hey, I don’t even think being called a Yank is even considered offensive anymore.
Some other races get much worse.
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I dont know where it derives from. I always thought it was pertaining to those Americans in the north.
I have wondered why people allow themselves to get so upset with "labels". You know the type of person you are and your friends and family know who you are. If other people want to be ignorant by labelling people they are only showing themselves up. What is important is what your loved ones think about you. The more you show how it affects you the more people will continue. They feed off of ones emotions. I say stand firm and love yourself.
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Australians have a slang term for all citizens of the US.
"Yanks"
Its a slang term that is by no means offensive and has been around as long as I’ve been alive
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yank
When did the New York Yankees change their name
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