Todays Demographics within FFXIV

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Originally Posted by Kolsykol

What is happening in this thread?

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Semantics and sophistry. Wouldn't worry about it.

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Originally Posted by Kolsykol

What is happening in this thread?

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I would posit exactly what the originator wanted to. Senseless arguments about nothing of consequence.

The other funny question was “what culture are you?” and had American & South American as choices. Damn, that had me laughing. That just had me thinking the OP must think everything south of the US border is South America from Mexico on down. And Canadian’s would probably have to go with other judging by Canadian reaction here. This was hilarious. I myself put other even though I’m American, but of Latin descent from another North American country. I’m pretty sure he would’ve wanted me to click South American as he probably meant that as Latin, but that would be wrong as there are Latin people in North America, too.

As far the American Psycho comment, Christian Bale & Steve Carell both in suits could also pass for Latin or Arab, not just generic “White Guy”. Look at Al Pacino in Scarface or Carlito’s Way. He was a “White Guy” in a suit playing a Latin character. Can’t judge a book by its cover as Latin, Arabs and some Europeans & their descendants can be interchangeable as we can share similar skin tones, facial structure and hair color.

Of all the things the xiv community could have argued about, they chose geography because the guy forgot to put an "s" at the end of "America". Never change, guys.

It's spelled "scandinavian" but I gave my input.

The amount of mental gymnastics here is really funny. US people seem to love to pretend they own the term America. I advise looking at a map.

That being said, of course the forum is arguing about something so insignificant when a person just asked a simple request you're not even obliged to follow. Is this really worth 5+ pages?

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Is Canada considered part of the US/North America? No. It's its own country.
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...of-the-us.html

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The U.S. is not America. The full name is "The United States of America." The U.S., like Canada and Mexico, is a part of North America. It is not America in its entirety. The blanket term, "America," covers all of North and South America, including Canada, the U.S., Mexico, as well as all the South American countries (who I won't list out due to sheer laziness).

Sidenote to all this, but most of my poor interactions in this game come from Canadians. I thought y'all were nice and all that. However, I will say the few Mexican and Brazilian players I've ran with have been pretty chill.

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

[...]meanwhile the poor New Zealanders, still lumped into Oceania even though they're actually part of a recently discovered mostly submerged eighth continent.

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That is an exciting fact full of promise and wonder.
What a tantalizing discovery.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

It's spelled "scandinavian" but I gave my input.

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'' Nordic Countries '' is really way better imo because Finland and Iceland aren't actually part of it but are very similar.
Swedish is even a second national language in Finland but when people include them in Scandinavia they're wrong at least officially.

OP Asia is not just east asia. If you are an American i don't blame you for thinking Asia is just China, Korea, and Japan.

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Originally Posted by Nikki

OP Asia is not just east asia. If you are an American i don't blame you for thinking Asia is just China, Korea, and Japan.

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What?! Are you saying Asia begins on the shore of the Eastern Mediterranean??? Insanity!

I'll have to give people in the US a little credit here as the majority of people outside of the US refer to us as "Americans". United States of Americans doesn't roll off the tongue quite so easily. That being said, they did teach us geography in elementary school so.....

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Originally Posted by Vanderlust

Of all the things the xiv community could have argued about, they chose geography because the guy forgot to put an "s" at the end of "America". Never change, guys.

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I've seen people argue over far less.

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Originally Posted by Payadopa

The amount of mental gymnastics here is really funny. US people seem to love to pretend they own the term America. I advise looking at a map.

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A demonym is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place (hamlet, village, town, city, region, province, state, country, continent, planet, and beyond). Demonyms are used to designate all people (the general population) of a particular place, regardless of ethnic, linguistic, religious or other cultural differences that may exist within the population of that place. Examples of demonyms include Cochabambino, for someone from the city of Cochabamba; American for a person from the United States of America; and Swahili, for a person of the Swahili coast.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym

Done, gl with the study :)

We still debating whether the Poll should have split North and South America?

*Checks*

Yup, we're still debating whether the poll should have split North and South America.

What I saw in the below image annoyed me. At first I was like "okay they're generalising cultures that they're categorised by large landmasses, which makes sense when you want a short list" and then I saw "Skandinavian" even though that is part of Europe and Europe is already listed.

That gives the impression that OP thinks the rest of Europe is simply "Not Scandinavia". Decided to not bother with the form.

https://i.imgur.com/ByyRagQ.png

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Originally Posted by Penthea

What I saw in the below image annoyed me. At first I was like "okay they're generalising cultures that they're categorised by large landmasses, which makes sense when you want a short list" and then I saw "Skandinavian" even though that is part of Europe and Europe is already listed.

That gives the impression that OP thinks the rest of Europe is simply "Not Scandinavia". Decided to not bother with the form.

https://i.imgur.com/ByyRagQ.png

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That made me laugh out loud not gonna lie. Every other culture is generic (save for East-Asian specifically? Because apparently the rest of Asia doesn't exist lmao) but then there's Scandinavian, which deserves a pretty spot all for them.

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

That made me laugh out loud not gonna lie. Every other culture is generic (save for East-Asian specifically? Because apparently the rest of Asia doesn't exist lmao) but then there's Scandinavian, which deserves a pretty spot all for them.

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Upon more thought I realised something. In an earlier part they listed Oceania, many people include Australia and New Zealand in that so I assumed this is what they meant. And then the cultural list entirely leaves them out. I guess OP thinks they don't have their own culture? Sure there is an "other" option but the lists need to be consistent, and the lack of consistency just shows a huge lack of awareness of what sort of cultures you can match to certain regions.

Also no prizes for guessing where OP is from, lol.

This thread is hilarious, not since watching people thinking Britain leaving the EU meant we were no longer European have I seen such a spectacular misunderstanding of how continents work.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

I've seen people argue over far less.

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Is it black or is it dark purple, we'll never know~

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Originally Posted by Nethereal

Is it black or is it dark purple, we'll never know~

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Originally Posted by Payadopa

The amount of mental gymnastics here is really funny. US people seem to love to pretend they own the term America. I advise looking at a map.

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It's not just "Americans claiming the term" – I'm from Australia and I've always been told "America" as a stand-alone term means the USA.

As a Mexican I'm laughing so hard at the controversy, c'mon it was not that hard to get what OP meant, and doesn't matter if you (somebody living in The Americas) identify as a person from The Americas or not, that's irrelevant, the only true is the name of this continent is The Americas (north and south for more diversity) or "El Continente Americano" as taught as far back as in kindergarten, wherever we like it or not

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

They ingest this insane amount of copium just to live with the vague notion that there might be a nonbinary person living within 5000 miles of them.

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I don't know, seems like mistaking indifference for hostility. Not caring and being unwilling to engage is quite different from hate.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Is Canada considered part of the US/North America?

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Why put a slash between two entirely different things?

Alternatively:

Is Canada considered part of the US? No.

Is Canada considered part of North America? Yes.

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On the larger topic, though, "North America" and "Central and South America" or "Latin America" and "America (Other)" (not quite the same delineation, but both still at least as useful as the Europe/Asia delineation as one approaches their border) seem a plenty worthwhile distinction.

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Originally Posted by Caurcas

I don't know, seems like mistaking indifference for hostility. Not caring and being unwilling to engage is quite different from hate.

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The quote I responded to, to which you responded, was literally hostile, what are you on about.

all cat girls: 100% male players

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Originally Posted by _Pigzig

all cat girls: 100% male players

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They're either a GIRL or a girl.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Is Canada considered part of the US/North America? No. It's its own country.
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...of-the-us.html

Is Mexico considered part of the US/North America? No, it's its own country between North and South America. It's not even part of Central America.
Source: https://www.spanish.academy/blog/is-...ntral-america/

Is South America part of the US/North America? No, it's its own continent that is a part of the "Americas" but they do not recognize themselves as the general "American" that the US does (hence why Brazilian, Chilean, etc. exists):
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...continent.html

It really isn't hard to Google. Just because it's all a giant landmass does not mean everyone there recognizes themselves as American lmao.

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france is in europe, but its a country
how is this different

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Originally Posted by Vasoka

Get a job and get off the pc, enjoy some IRL activities rather than insta quoting people out of "malding" desperation.

See you around (not).

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stop looking for negative attention on the forums on your level 24 gladiator alt. its a weird hobby and cant be a good sign about your personal life.

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Originally Posted by Lihtleita

france is in europe, but its a country
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America is typically only used to refer to the USA, whereas "The Americas" is used to refer to the North, South, and Central American landmass, and a select few islands off the coasts. It's like how you wouldn't call Africa the "Central African Republic" despite there being a country within Africa called the "Central African Republic," and the names being similar to each other as they contain the word "Africa" in them.

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Originally Posted by _Pigzig

all cat girls: 100% male players

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Spoken like a male player.

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Originally Posted by Vasoka

snipped all right wing propaganda I live in Karen land bs because face it who want to read that again
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Triggered LOL so easy

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

America is typically only used to refer to the USA, whereas "The Americas" is used to refer to the North, South, and Central American landmass, and a select few islands off the coasts. It's like how you wouldn't call Africa the "Central African Republic" despite there being a country within Africa called the "Central African Republic," and the names being similar to each other as they contain the word "Africa" in them.

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You know what? Youre actually right. My apologies.

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Originally Posted by Snorky

Triggered LOL so easy

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Stunning and brave!

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

By your standards, Europe and Asia and Africa share the same "landmass".

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Makes me miss the Good ol' days where it was just one gigantic landmass. The next rejoining seems so far away.

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Is Canada considered part of the US/North America? No. It's its own country.
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...of-the-us.html

Is Mexico considered part of the US/North America? No, it's its own country between North and South America. It's not even part of Central America.
Source: https://www.spanish.academy/blog/is-...ntral-america/

Is South America part of the US/North America? No, it's its own continent that is a part of the "Americas" but they do not recognize themselves as the general "American" that the US does (hence why Brazilian, Chilean, etc. exists):
Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...continent.html

It really isn't hard to Google. Just because it's all a giant landmass does not mean everyone there recognizes themselves as American lmao.

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Using your logic there is no Europe since it is all different countries, there is no Asia, as again it is made up of different countries there is now country Oceania as again it is all different countries, same with Africa. Reading comprehension (I know its hard for a lot of people) will tell you they are not listing separate countries but regions.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

10 pages, many questions, absolute trollery abound.. OP still has not responded or in fact posted ANYWHERE else.

can we stop yet?

I'm a the only middle eastern guy(Lebanese) here? Currently living in the UAE. Was born here as well.

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Originally Posted by MilkieTea

Silence is honestly so underrated these days.

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Thankfully people don't have to be silent just because they have a view that you dislike.

Doesn't take away that they're making a fool of themselves off course.