Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Is it correct to call the United Statians as the "Americans"?
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-correct-to-call-the-United-Statians-as-the-Americans
For me they should have two official abbreviations for "United States of America", one would continue to be the one that already exists, "United States", the other could be "U.S. America".
And as for the nationality, it would be the one that has been proposed for some time by several, and that is used in formal settings such as in some university writings in the English language, "US Americans".
I make the suggestion of "US American" because the linguists of the English language themselves confess that the word "American" has never ceased to have the meaning of "what belongs to the continent of America ("the Americas" in current English)", but that in ITS USE over time ended up referring almost exclusively to the nationality of someone from the United States of America.
As it should, since it has been seen throughout history and the name is original to the American Continent. Not the Americas, but America! There is plenty of historical facts of the continent being named "America" but very little fact of what the U.S. tries to sell to the world. That the name America is theirs.
Applause, master!
I admit my dream is to be a global citizen with a word passport, firstly I’m a human, secondly an American (Person who was born in the Americas Continent), then a United Statian (U.S Citizen)
the US, which is where I'm from and where I live, has lots of weird things. like why do most of the people here call it soccer when calcio is a way cooler name? and for that matter, why do both the UK and the US call it pineapple when most countries call it a variant of the name ananas?
What's most spoken, British English or Statian English?
United Statian English
América = the Americas
americano, na = South American / North American
Estados Unidos de América (Estados Unidos / EE. UU.) = United States of America (United States / U.S. / America)
estadounidense = American
Shut up Morgan.
Malditos americanianos United Statesians
the British and US Americans have serious lexical problems, but look at the history of the term "soccer", the word America is not the only case
Oh, no. Imagine people using words in ways that are different from how you use them. The horror. You are a petty, fragile moron.
Se ofendió hasta la médula, ¡misión cumplida! Jajaja
You mean lack of education?
The Conservation Management of Engenho Uchôa Wildlife Refuge as a Natural Heritage (2021)
https://doi.org/10.17271/2318847297420213025
"From the perspective of United Statian preservationism, where the presence of human beings in areas understood as natural was opposed, the first protected areas..."
We have to respect all the American countries, so that they can start respecting us.
Someone was really this hard pressed to go and pay for a website just because people refer to the US as America.
Most United Statians refer to their country as America. They have serious identity issues, but they are nowadays learning beyond their frontiers.
I'm one of those who don't. I like to refer to my country as Usonia
Most citizens of the U.S. have been conditioned to do as the leaders say and do. Sadly, it is no longer a secret as we can see it on the how the media influences people. Taken the name of the continent is not a coincidence but part of their plan. No difference with the name "America". These people play with people's minds and the people take it as is without questioning. America, as all know, is the name given to the new world by Europeans.