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Re:Ask HN: Why can't I call myself “a Japanese”? by anthk on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:58PM (#28793747)
In Spanish no one cares if something is a noun or a proper adjective.

There is "chino, japones, italiano, frances, aleman". Full of different Romance suffixes and we put functionality over ideology.

Too lazy to care, and the noun/adj. roots and suffixes go back to the Latin spoken since the Romans.

We have "ingles" and "britanico" too, yet no one would say a common used demonym can be racist.

Also, hey, any demonym can be used either as a noun or an adjective. Both for people and for things.

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