General Discussion

Except for Greek, I speak all of them. Since I have lived and worked in Central Europe for many years and visit between three and five countries a week for my work, I’d have to be some kind of arrogant idiot not to have learned the languages of the people I work with.

How we (country and people) are referred to will vary, both between written and spoken languages, and also depending on profession. If your job involves shipping, currencies, cultural (e.g. UNESCO issues), commerce, the need to distinguish grows. German media and officialdom call us “US-Amerikaner,” where the spoken language uses the slang “amis.” The French might use the official “nordaméricains,” but call us the derogatory “amérlos” if they think none of us are within earshot. If a discussion involves only the USA, then they might just shorten it to “américains,” but context will determine that. For obvious reasons, they distinguish between “québecois” and “canadiens” for Anglo Canadians. In NL, you could be a VS-Amerikaan or just an amerikaan, depending on context, since NL still maintains close ties with its Dutch-speaking former (or not so former) American colonies like Curaçao, Surinam, St. Maarten, etc.

I’m almost never in Greece and do not speak much of the language at all, so I must defer to your superior knowledge of the local linguistics there.