Pitiyanqui = Petit yanqui (in french) = little yanqui WHERE yanqui = US citizen
This word is despectively about people from other countries that live like Americans (“Americans” in US sense). I want to be clear on it: US people is not the problem but guys believing thenselves “Americans” (US citizens) while they are living (and to be from) other countries. People make a fun of them. I don’t know “properly way” of saying it: people see them like… feet-lickers? Sorry for my language barrier.
I left America and I sometimes struggle not to be self-loathing about it. I love a lot of American-made culture, but it pains me to see people who prefer the giant trucks, the myth of “rugged individualism”, and the false machismo around guns, misogyny, and nationalistic tendencies.
I like a version of America that probably never actually existed beyond the imaginations of a minority of us. Those old world Enlightenment ideas melded with the optimism of the new are still attractive to me. I still can’t listen to this sort of thing without getting a little swept up in it. I’ll never make a proper cynic, I fear.
By all means like what you like, and it’s nice if you like American stuff - but we have more to offer than just crutches for fragile egos, and it doesn’t take a disillusioned seppo to see it for what it is.