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The etymology is uncertain; one suggestion is that it derives from Dutch Janke, diminutive of Jan (John), or Jan Kees, for "John Cheese", a nickname for English settlers bestowed by the Dutch in the early days of New York City. The phrase was probably popularized by the English in the song Yankee Doodle Dandee to describe New Yorkers, and perhaps, all (Northern) Americans in the colonies.
The term probably originated in old New Amsterdam, New Holland and New York, in the Mid-Atlantic. It then was adopted by the British to describe (Northern) colonists. In the Civil War, the phrase referred to all residents and soldiers of northern or free states, usually used derisively by rebel troops and secession sympathizers.
The New York Yankees baseball team refocused attention on New York, and the need to describe the rural, New Englander of puritan stock probably caused reporters and authors to bring back the slang shorthand term Yankee. Finally, citizens of other countries, including the British during the World Wars, referred to all Americans as Yanks. This is not to be confused with the British slang wank, which is something else entirely.
The term Yankee is still used in The South as a derisive term for persons from any state north of the Mason-Dixon Line. See also carpetbagger.
Others—that is, speakers from outside of the USA—often use it to refer to any resident of the USA (as opposed to American in general), especially in the form Yank. The words are sometimes spelt with a lowercase initial, yankee and yank. In some parts of the world, particularly in Latin AmericaLatin America consists of the countries of South America and North America (including Central America and the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken there. Most freque and East AsiaEast Asia is a subregion of Asia. It covers about 6,640,000 km², or 15 percent of the continent. The following countries are located in East Asia: China, except for the province of Qinghai and the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Tibet, which may also b, yankee or yanqui is meant as an insult and is politically associated with anti-imperialismAnti-imperialism is a current within the political left advocating the collapse of imperialism, i. the perceived empire of the United States of America. The movement's aim is to correct the harmful consequences believed to stem from imperialism. Adherents and used in expressions such as "Yankee go home".
Hence, the term has had different positive, negative, contextual and regional associations over the years, as books, media, troops, teams, and peoples have used it differently for different purposes.
Yankee has several other meanings:
See also the song Yankee DoodleYankee Doodle is today a well-known American children's song, which has existed in many versions over time. The first verse, as most frequently sung today, runs :Yankee Doodle went to town, :riding on a pony; :stuck a feather in his hat, :and called it ma, the film Yankee Doodle Dandy and the book and films A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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