Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.

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    1 month ago

    You’re at least the third person to incorrectly assume my nationality today. You’d think in this thread of all places, where the title explicitly calls out the fact that someone made that mistake, people would be more likely to get it right…

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        1 month ago

        My apologies. Unfortunately Poe’s Law is very much at play in this subject. I’ve seen far too many people sincerely say what you just said (and I’m now wondering whether or not XTL did the same as you) to be able to take that as a joke.