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The term Yankee has a variety of meanings. Generally, it refers to citizens of the United States, particularly northerners, especially those Americans from the Northeastern United States.
HistoryOriginsOrigins of the term are disputed. One theory customarily held by persons not from New England claims that it originated from the Dutch in old New Amsterdam (today known as New York City) in the Mid-Atlantic States. It then was adopted by the British as a pejorative for (Northern) colonists. The origin might have been the phrase Jan Kees ("John Cornelius") (two very common Dutch names), which the English-speaking people picked up as "yankees", a word they used to refer to the Dutch. The Dutch theory is somewhat confused. The settlers of New Amsterdam and the settlers of Massachusetts Bay were totally unconnected and did not come into contact until both communities were sufficiently dense to carry on trade up and down the East Coast. There is no reason why the British should call English settlers in a different location by a Dutch name when New Amsterdam was under Dutch jurisdiction and always had been. The prevalent theory in New England holds that it originated among a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas on the East Coast of the United States. They were unable to pronounce the word "English", rendering it as "yengis" or "yengeese". This later was Anglicized to "Yankees". This theory is widely held, as descendants of those same Native Americans are alive in Massachusetts, mainly as the Wampanoags and are vociferous about their origin and are fairly well publicized. They still know the basic core of their former language and are able to say that in it there is no "l" sound. Their ancestors would not have pronounced it, rendering English to "yengis". In another theory, Indians who first learned of the English from the French may have borrowed the French language name "Anglais" and rendered it as something that approximated "Yankee" in their own phonetic system. One area in which French, French-allied Indians, and British-descended Americans would have come into contact was the area of frontier warfare conducted during the French and Indian War (1754–1763). This is more or less consistent with the areas in which other derivations of the word would postulate its first use. If this is the origin of the term Yankee, it may originally have had a pejorative, anti-American connotation similar to that of gringo, becoming adopted as a matter of pride by British-descended Americans who had fought on the frontier during the French and Indian War. There are several other folk and humorous etymologies for the word. One influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song Yankee Doodle, which was popular at the time of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Though the British intended to insult the colonials with the song, following the Battle of Concord, it was adopted by Americans as a proud retort and today is the state song of Connecticut. An early use of the term outside the United States was in the creation of Sam Slick, the "Yankee Clockmaker", in a column in a newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1835. The character was a plain-talking American who served to mock both American and British North American customs of that era. The stories were published in a book titled The Clockmaker, in 1836. The book was popular in British North America, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The American Civil WarThe use of the term was highly significant in the context of the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). It was used to refer to the soldiers and residents of the Northern United States including the Midwestern United States, Mid-Atlantic States, and New England. The term also referred to the border states and African American troops who fought for the Union. See also Carpetbagger. Contemporary usesIn the United StatesWithin the United States, the term Yankee can have a number of different contextually and geographically dependent meanings. Today Yankee is most often used to refer to a New Englander (in which case it may denote New England puritan and thrifty values) or someone from one of the Mid-Atlantic states. However, within New England, the term is often understood to refer more specifically to old-stock New Englanders of Anglo-Saxon descent, often known as WASPs. The term "Swamp Yankee" is used in rural Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut to refer to Protestant farmers of moderate means and their descendants (as opposed to upper-class Yankees). In the American South the term is still used as a derisive term for persons from any state north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but the mid-Atlantic states of Maryland and Delaware are somewhat ambiguous cases. Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon Line, both states were slave states and some portion of their populations shares a greater cultural affinity with the South (especially in rural areas), but neither joined the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. Southerners sometimes also apply this as a slur against persons from Kentucky and West Virginia because their states did not join Confederacy. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, the term has also been used by Americans to refer to the New York Yankees baseball team, or the fans of that team. In other parts of the worldOutside the United States, especially in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Yankee, often shortened to 'Yank', is used as a colloquial term for American. The term was used extensively in these countries during World War I (1914 - 1918) and World War II (1939 - 1945) to refer to American soldiers. "Working for the Yankee dollar" is sometimes heard as a derogatory phrase for someone who is perceived to have 'sold out' to an American corporation in some way. In some parts of the world, particularly in Latin America and East Asia, yankee or yanqui is meant as an insult and is politically associated with anti-Americanism and used in expressions such as "Yankee go home" or "we struggle against the yanqui, enemy of humanity" (words from the Sandinista anthem). In Japan the term yankī is used to refer to a youth subculture of bleached blondes who are generally regarded as delinquents and thugs by older generations; general slang for American is amekō. External links
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