Americans and Europeans exchange questions for fun :)

[OisE]

in english its a colloquial term i feel like its only people who speak languages of the iberian peninsula who get all fussy about the america being a continent thing

Wrong, I am not one of them and I am fussy about it.

 

[OisE]

Why are yankees more into anime than manga?

 

[AnonymousContributor]

Why are yankees more into anime than manga?

i fucking hate anime onlies forcing spoilers when discussing recent manga but back on topic that answer relies on crunchyroll existing and streaming being more accessible and mainstream

 

[solstice258]

Why are yankees more into anime than manga?

Because anime-normies don't know how to read, and watch dub only *shudder*

 

[Basic_human]

Because anime-normies don't know how to read, and watch dub only *shudder*

basically shounentard?

what is a yankee anyway?

 

[DavidianMillerian]

what is a yankee anyway?

it's an alternative term for 'muricans, USAians, or whatever you want to call people who live in the United States of America

 

[solstice258]

basically shounentard?

what is a yankee anyway?

Yeah, basically.

Depending on who you ask it could be a USAmerican, a northern US resident, a New Englander or a delinquent.

 

[AnonymousContributor]

Because anime-normies don't know how to read, and watch dub only *shudder*

dubs either are mega ass or peak for anime ngl

 

[AnonymousContributor]

Because anime-normies don't know how to read, and watch dub only *shudder*

imagine society if anime onlies knew that anime is usually a manga and read the source so saying the latest chapter shit aint a spoiler

 

[Angry_Panda]

Why are yankees more into anime than manga?

Reeding = hed hurty.

it's an alternative term for 'muricans, USAians, or whatever you want to call people who live in the United States of America

There are many USA residents who will take great offense if you call them a yankee. Use the term with care.

 

[OisE]

There are many USA residents who will take great offense if you call them a yankee. Use the term with care.

Like who? The southerners?

 

[Angry_Panda]

Like who? The southerners?

Them, Texans (Texas is weird and not entirely 'Southern'), Midwesterners, Boston Red Sox fans....

Probably the best quote about yankees comes from author E.B. White:

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

 

[Greenfrost]

Them, Texans (Texas is weird and not entirely 'Southern'), Midwesterners, Boston Red Sox fans....

Probably the best quote about yankees comes from author E.B. White:

Apparently there was a Connecticut Yankee in King Arther's court. Americans are so powerful we can bend space and time.

 

[Basic_human]

Yeah, basically.

Depending on who you ask it could be a USAmerican, a northern US resident, a New Englander or a delinquent.

i thought yankee as in chinpira or anime delinquent

im so nerd

 

[sootesheepy666]

Why are yankees more into anime than manga?

Because a lot of us are too dumb to sit tf down and read something that isnt a smut filled coleen hoover book!! :3

 

[Manko-sensei]

So at the other side of the puddle you go back to classes on August, like today? That'd be crazy here with the heatwaves or just high temperatures and schools without AC, working fans or even properly isolated. Here students end before St. John (24th of June, national holiday) and start anew somewhere between the 3th and the 12th of September (depending on the education level you're and the area you live). Not having at least July and August free seem torture for us.

 

[Angry_Panda]

So at the other side of the puddle you go back to classes on August, like today? That'd be crazy here with the heatwaves or just high temperatures and schools without AC, working fans or even properly isolated. Here students end before St. John (24th of June, national holiday) and start anew somewhere between the 3th and the 12th of September (depending on the education level you're and the area you live). Not having at least July and August free seem torture for us.

There were a couple years I can remember in elementary school (in the late 80's) they had to run half days, since the school wasn't air-conditioned and it was stupid hot into late August. At one point the state legislature stepped in and forced schools to push their start dates back some to try and avoid this, but that gradually got rolled back. I think all the schools around here have been retrofitted with A/C (or just rebuilt) at this point, but the weather is such a crapshoot that you have to take a bit of a chance.

At least here in Iowa, I believe the requirement is (or was) about 150 days in class, so when you work that out with two weeks around Christmas/New Year's, and another week for spring break, and some other holidays and half days for teacher development sprinkled in there, it generally runs late August to the end of May or really early June. Snow days can push the end of that out.