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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    9 hours ago

    PTB, easy. Regardless of where one stands on the issue of ‘Americans’, pretty mildly correcting someone for assuming your nationality and using that to disparage your opinion is not (or should not be) a removable offense.