How do Europeans call Americans?
Aug 9th, 2001, 02:18 AM
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In Ireland there is an old term which is still used quite a bit.Americans are often referred to as "Yanks".Indeed in the past if an Irish person lived in the U.S. for a few years and came back to Ireland to live he would be referred to as the "Yank Sullivan" for example.Most Irish people under 50 have been to the states,many have lived there for several years and almost a million American visit Ireland every year so that Americans are regarded as part of the landscape.Recently I have noticed a number of Americans coming to live in Ireland and you will come across them in all kinds of jobs.Young people in particular come for a year or two and base themselves in Dublin while they travel around Europe.Any American who has an Irish parent or grandparent is able to get an Irish passport and work anywhere in the EEC.
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Aug 10th, 2001, 10:33 AM
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generally I wouldn't participate in this (I opened this thread thinking it was about European long-distance plans LOL) and don't much like pejoratives and never have used them myself, even when I do dislike some category of people, but couldn't help but be curious about the word "requins" for Americans that French supposedly use? I've never heard that, and wondered why or where that came from (I do know its French meaning which is why I find it odd). I've never heard them called anything but Americains (or me personally), but that's probably because someone wouldn't say something else to my face. I've never heard of the septic thing but I guess that's because I haven't been to UK lately.
