@FinlandIsBestEver Yanks and Yankees aren't mean names
(expect for Southerners)
and Englishman is only a mean name if you call the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish that too that's like calling someone from Texas a New Yorker, or vice versa
sure you can call the Engish, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish all British as a collective term for the UK like how you can call someone from both Texas or New Yorker American but you can't call everyone in the UK, Englishmen
russia one is actually mean but honestly kind of funny
Want to learn a funny story about the word Yankee? its true origin is unknown but the most common theory it was English settlers making fun of the Dutch settlers who liked to eat cheese in the 1600s then fast forward to the American Revolution the British army made up a song called "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to mock the American patriots and pro-independence and it somehow became an American patriotic song
we took a song meant to humiliate us and made it for our own
imagine making a song to mock your enemy and they took it and spun it around to be positive
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@FinlandIsBestEver Yanks and Yankees aren't mean names
(expect for Southerners)
and Englishman is only a mean name if you call the Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish that too that's like calling someone from Texas a New Yorker, or vice versa
sure you can call the Engish, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish all British as a collective term for the UK like how you can call someone from both Texas or New Yorker American but you can't call everyone in the UK, Englishmen
russia one is actually mean but honestly kind of funny
Want to learn a funny story about the word Yankee? its true origin is unknown but the most common theory it was English settlers making fun of the Dutch settlers who liked to eat cheese in the 1600s then fast forward to the American Revolution the British army made up a song called "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to mock the American patriots and pro-independence and it somehow became an American patriotic song
we took a song meant to humiliate us and made it for our own
imagine making a song to mock your enemy and they took it and spun it around to be positive
that is the funniest shit ever