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submitted 1 week ago by linchiao@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemm.ee

Pitiyanqui = Petit yanqui (in french) = little yanqui WHERE yanqui = US citizen

This word is despectively about people from other countries that live like Americans ("Americans" in US sense). I want to be clear on it: US people is not the problem but guys believing thenselves "Americans" (US citizens) while they are living (and to be from) other countries. People make a fun of them. I don't know "properly way" of saying it: people see them like... feet-lickers? Sorry for my language barrier.

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[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

I kinda get it personally, as an American weeb. It's easy to idealize the culture of a place you've never lived.

But yeah, most Americans only conceptualize people in other countries quite distantly and have never heard of this.

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