If you are in US, do you like that? Or just americans of some parts of US do? Or just the young persons?
2006-07-26 02:11:17 · 20 answers · asked by Cowboy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Only people north of the mason-dixen line thing........I like to be called a redneck.= )
2006-07-26 02:15:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, and I'll tell you why. New York has a baseball team called The NY Yankees and unless you live in New York you know that The Yankees are the worst bunch of cheating bums that ever played ball. Every time they get in the playoffs their owner buys off the umpires.
2006-07-26 09:16:21 · answer #2 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't mind, but the funny thing is that you'll find it means different things depending where you go in the US. Outside the US, it's any American. In the American South, it's anyone from the Northeast (and then it's being used as an insult). In the Northeast, it's someone from the New England states. In New England, it's someone from Connecticut. Or I've heard is someone from New Hampshire. Depends who you ask. And of course if you're from Boston or New York, it's a baseball player. It's just a funny word here.
2006-07-26 09:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by locolady98 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We Americans dont mind being called Yankees. Its the adjective that many put in front of the word Yankee that we often object to.
2006-07-26 09:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yankees is the term referring to the Northern states who were against slavery in the Civil war. It really doesn't matter to me as long as it's used in a friendly term. You may have a problem on your hands though if you call a Mets fan a yankee. lol. baseball.
2006-07-26 20:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by Doot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the baseball team in New York likes to be called the Yankees . Do people in England like to be called Limeys ? Do people in Italy like to be called Wops ? The chinese called chinks ? what about mexicans called wet-backs ? Do you think that Americans like to be called yankees . I think not !!
2006-07-26 09:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by rocknrod04 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call anyone below the Mason Dixon line a Yankee and the fight is on! Confederate Rebel forever!
2006-07-26 09:18:08 · answer #7 · answered by Retarded Dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it don't bother me.... I know that the Britt's and some others call us Yankees.... no biggie.... now if you live in the US and if you are from the south and you call a Northerner a Yankee he might get offended.. but he cant help he's a Yankee now can he?
2006-07-26 09:16:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think it bothers most Americans at all. People from the south use it as a derogatory term. When it comes from people from other countries it dosnt bother me at all. People who are bothered by it are probably hyper sensitive with very low self esteem
2006-07-26 10:57:47 · answer #9 · answered by erik c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Those are people typical of New England, usually.
People in the Southern US (Like... the Carolina's, Alabama, Mississippi, etc) call northerners "yanks", often in reference to the civil war.
2006-07-26 14:41:20 · answer #10 · answered by Lydia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yankees are ppl from the north like ny ct ma ect ect ppl from the south like myself dont like being called a " yankee "
2006-07-26 09:14:50 · answer #11 · answered by Joanna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋