Talk:Americans

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Copyvio?

The claim of a copyright infringement of [1] is highly questionable since the statement made on that site looks as though it was copied and pasted from the culture section of the United States article. M5891 (talk) 21:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The intent of this article

This article is intended to describe the people of the United States as a whole, as opposed to other articles such as Demographics of the United States which focus more on dissecting by race, ancestry, ethnicity, etc.

Compare this article to that of Brazilian people. M5891 (talk) 21:23, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

But "American people of the US" implies a contrast with "non-American people" of the US: eg. European people of the US. That isn't what this article is about. Isn't it about just "People of the US"? kwami (talk) 23:13, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Explanation of low numbers of Americans overseas

Except for affluent or budget-seeking retirees and members or personnel of the US Armed forces in overseas bases, are there more historical collection of American emigrants in other nations in hope and in search of opportunity they failed to find in their home country? The greatgrandfather of Mexican president Vicente Fox Quesada is an example. What about vietnam-war era draft dodgers whom fled to Canada? You can bring up the case of former U.S. president Bill Clinton when he was a young man in the 1960's had a college student deferment in Oxford university in Great Britain. And the descendants of African-Americans in Sierra Leone and Liberia, to return to a land where their ancestors came from long ago, can be worth mentioning. The number of American expats are 4 to 5 million (correct), over a third of them are in Latin America, a quarter are in Asia, one-fifth in Europe and something like one-eighth in the Middle East, while the remainder are in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), the vast number of American expats went to these countries in disdain on George W. Bush's war on terror and economic policies, including a few "Kerryites" or liberal-minded Democratic voters whom publicly said if Bush was re-elected (and that he was) they will emigrate out of the U.S. The American people aren't really known for a massive exodus out of their homeland in their previous history, but there's a pioneering spirit our ancestors had in the last five centuries when they venture outward in the frontiers often into new lands far away.+ 71.102.2.206 (talk) 06:11, 17 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1 Billion?

There is a sentence under the article that says "there are over 1 billion people" or something like... I will remove it... I think its unsourced and it appears to not be relevant to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.86.48 (talk) 00:17, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

I just want to say "good job" to whomever constructed the photo montage in the infobox. Never have I seen the good, bad, and ugly faces of America summed up so succinctly. (I leave it to you which is which). Beeblebrox (talk) 19:26, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Huckabee?

Why is he notable enough to be included in the list of examples of Americans? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tancrisism (talk • contribs) 22:02, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. I was just wondering why his picture was included in there as well.--Henry talk 03:41, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We should take off Madonna and replace it with Mark Twain

She is not a very notable person world wide and Micheal Jackson sold more then half of her all time record sales with one record. We also need more writers and already have elvis and jackson. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.28.185 (talk) 09:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

agreed —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.146.80.194 (talk) 02:29, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that Madonna should be removed and i would also argue that Michael Jordan should be replaced, Elvis and Jackson are enough as far as entertainers go. People they can possibly be replaced with, Mark Twain, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Franklin D. Roosevelt. --Nirvana77 (talk) 09:12, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Madonna is very notable in most of the world. Jordan is not, because in many countries there is very little interest in basketball. Jim Michael (talk) 03:41, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Madonna is the most famous woman in the world and in the latest issue of Billboard's Hot 100, Madonna is ranked as the most successful solo artist of all time, (second over-all, behind The Beatles)and really bettter than Michael Jackson. I think it would be very good for the U.S. to honor its most famous citizen in the world. Ref: [[2]]

Almost all men?

The United States is split about 50-50 men/women, but all but one of the pics are of American men. 67.121.155.62 (talk) 08:05, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Give us some suggestions then. Rosa Parks comes to mind, so does Amelia Earhart. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.23.191 (talk) 21:58, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've replaced the messy spread of various image files with a single-image collage as can be found on the Brazilian people and Spanish American articles. In my collage are, Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey, Amelia Earhart, and Ellen DeGeneres. If/when someone wants me to change the collage to include more people/different people, I can be contacted on my talk page. On the other hand, if someone wants to put work in themselves, the Russians article has a nicer setup, with multiple images cropped to dimensions that resize well together, which I believe is a better model than the "single image collage" one I have used. Of course, if someone wants to edit the collage themselves, they can, given they update the article and the Commons description. --▲ MANATH The Mage Singer (talk) ▲ 04:57, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]