[Findeton]

"In another comment section (Reddit, I believe) there was anecdotal evidence that visitors from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania regularly outstayed their visas and were notorious for violating a tourist visa, hence the additional checks the US wanted to put them through."

Well, what would you think if we said the same thing about US-americans (remember the term american is also from Colombians) from a number of states?

No, we the EU are one and if you do this to Bulgaria, you are doing this to all of us. This is not nationalism, it's actually the opposite.

[muninn_]

US Americans are just Americans. Only people who are incredibly pedantic think otherwise.

[clock_tower]

Pedantic or Latin American, in my experience; it's not much fun to be forgotten, and I feel their frustration but can't think of a very good solution. "US-American" doesn't really roll off the tongue... Maybe the US could adopt the same ethnonymn as Usa, Japan? :P

[muninn_]

Why though? Like what's wrong with being Brazilian or Chilean??

[Findeton]

Brazilians and Chileans are Americans too. Even though they are from another continent.

[muninn_]

Well they are South Americans then. In my experience (my Brazilian friends at least) they prefer being called Brazilian. Nobody except those with an axe to grind or more time than is good for them care that people from the United States of America are called Americans. I really wish people would just grow up and stop caring about stupid little things like that.

[cplanas]

Or people for who English is not their first language. In Spanish at least, an "americano" is anyone from the Americas. People from the US are "estadounidenses".

[WildUtah]

Nobody says estadounidenses. The standard, common word in western hemisphere Spanish for people from the United States is an ethnic slur against us.

Which should help indicate how good an idea it is to invite more people from that region to our country.

[cplanas]

In Spain at least, "estadounidense" is the standard for "American".

Which is the ethnic slur?

[rfrank]

Gringo

[Findeton]

Maybe it has something to do with the US/CIA fucking up those countries.

[WildUtah]

It started with the Mexican-American war of 1846, so that is a viable theory (though the CIA was not yet involved). That's the war Mexicans still teach in every Mexican school with a big famous map showing that California and Texas are Mexican territory unjustly stolen by the USA.

[muninn_]

Stolen isn't the right word. Anyway they should just get over it.