Yankee

The term Yankee has a variety of meanings. Residents of the United States of America use it to refer to the New York Yankees baseball team, a resident of New England or the North, or more often, in the context of the American Civil War, the soldiers and residents of the northern United States including the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states, as well as other border-state and African-American troops. Regionally, today Yankee most often refers to a New Englander (in which case it may denote New England puritan and thrifty values) or, in the American South, to anyone from the Northern states. The principal use of the term in the U.S. is a means of distinguishing Yankees from those from the South (i.e., the southeastern states). See also Yankee ingenuity.

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 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 America and East Asia, yankee or yanqui is meant as an insult and is politically associated with anti-imperialism 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.

    To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
    To Americans, a Yankee is an Easterner.
    To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
    To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
    And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
    —(an old definition)

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-- http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0040008/   Arts: Movies: Titles: Y: Yankee Fakir, The   (1)

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-- http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0047684/   Arts: Movies: Titles: Y: Yankee Pasha   (1)

IMDB : Yankee Seduction (1984) - Full cast and crew for the film, and other information from the Internet Movie Database.
-- http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0153975/   Arts: Movies: Titles: Y: Yankee Seduction   (1)

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Etext and study resources at the University of Virginia.
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