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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United States Legislative Information, Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3290.ar305500/
Firstly, this map is not related to any United States legislation or legislators. The linked 1763 map details territorial gains made by Great Britain, at the expense of France, at the end of the 7 years war. During this war, Great Britain defeated France in Europe, India, Africa, and Canada (in North America).
During this period, France unwisely squandered its vast holdings in the Louisiana Territory, giving the territory to Spain, in hopes its ally would not fight on against Great Britain.
Also, French attempts to solidify a colony in South America, in 1763, had also failed.
Great Britain defined "America" as a continent, in this context, for subtle propaganda purposes, in order to exasperate the humiliation of the French.
Comment clarification: "Also, French attempts to solidify a colony in South America, in 1763, had failed."
That is, from Wiki: "The first French effort to colonize Guiana, in 1763, failed utterly, as settlers were subject to high mortality given the numerous tropical diseases and harsh climate: all but 2,000 of the initial 12,000 settlers died."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Guiana#History
I think you are mistaken. The name America for the new world was already accepted all over Europe as it was taught and hanged in Universities and began all over Germany!
The U.K., to this day, sees itself as generally distinct from the European mainland.
Maybe that is the whole answer for this mess. The U.K. has manipulated all this debacle in the English language and that is why some people in this blog think they are correct. Twisting what has been done by others is wrong. They can do whatever they want But that does not stop those who mapped and sailed around America from having been the influence in the name of the new continent to be America.
As noted, the French had either bungled away its possessions in Louisiana, failed to gain a new foot hold in South America, or been had expelled from Canada. That is, by the time of the 1763 map, France, with the exception of small holdings in the Caribbean, has basically lost access the whole of New World (recognized as "America" by the French)
Conversely, one hundred years later, Great Britain, at the height of its imperial power, and under no compulsion to do otherwise, clearly defined "America" as the United States and the southern Confederacy.
https://www.loc.gov/item/99447105/
Also, please notice how the very mapmaker of the 1763 map, defined North America as "this great continent" in the map linked below. This second, earlier, map was made in 1755, a year before the Seven Years' War began! Its seems British mapmakers were, indeed, influenced by the given politics of the day.
https://www.loc.gov/item/73696820/
"En Hecho", sorry, David... Dude, your request will reach 1000 soon. How do you feel after getting two more zeros than expected?
Wao, 1000 firmas ya. Imagínate si se promocionara.
Facts Are Facts, David, Morgan, eyes have it, when will it be enough? Just go away.
I love it how you claim Wikipedia is fake news and biased when the facts disprove your BS, but then you plagiarize Wikipedia when you incorrectly think its facts support your so-called arguments. Hypocrite. Plagiarist. Liar.
What if I wrote that thing on Wikipedia? The article on Wikipedia came straight out of Panamanian article, literally translated in google translate. It doesn't contain false information, because it is as the original article.
You need to cry harder.
A settlement (originally known as Castilla del Oro) was founded on August 15, 1519 by Pedro Arias Dávila and another 100 inhabitants. At the time, it was the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Ocean, replacing the two cities of Santa María la Antigüa del Darién and Acla. Two years later, in 1521, the settlement was promoted to the status of city by a royal decree and was given a coat of arms by Charles V of Spain, forming a new cabildo. Shortly after its creation the city became a starting point for various expeditions in Peru and an important base where gold and silver were sent to Spain.
n 1670, the city counted 10,000 inhabitants. On 28 January 1671, the Welsh privateer Henry Morgan attacked the city with 1,400 men, marching from the Caribbean coast across the jungle. Morgan's force defeated the city's militia then proceeded to sack Panamá. Either Morgan and his army started a fire that burned the city or the Captain General Don Juan Pérez de Guzmán ordered the explosion of the gunpowder magazines. Either way, the resulting fire destroyed the city. Morgan's attack caused the loss of thousands of lives and Panamá had to be rebuilt a few kilometres to the west on a new site.
More plagiarism? You’re doing it!!!
History does not change, Doña Morgan :)
United Statians are obsessed with the usa in both ways
https://bit.ly/3D3npIK
Hey, Andy, this sounds like cool history... can you tell us a bit more, please?
"... 502 years since the foundation of the first European permanent settlement in mainland America, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Panama. It was destroyed by you guess it, a British by the name of Henry Morgan."
Btw, eyes have it(United States), I mean, Morgan, I mean, David, when will it be enough?
eyes have it(United States)
You better need to keep you mouth shut, everything that exit your mouth is ignorance and too much wordiness.
I recomend you to keep your mouth close.
The claim of Greece for ownership of the name "Macedonia" is nationalistic in nature. This claims of this website are Pan-Americanisms, which are not the same thing. This website chides the nationalistic claims of the United States for its use of the name "America"". Ironically your Greece argument here, Andy, actually legitimizes the United State's use of word America!
And lastly, the 1507 map was, indeed, created to show a new understanding of the world. It was certainly not created to be seized upon by this website 500 years later in order to push its very weak and underdeveloped arguments. But people do what people do. The USA is a fine nation and quite exceptional.
The claim of this websites are of nationalistic nature as the Greek ones. You for sure don't know a bit of Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Ironically your Greece argument here, Andy, actually legitimizes the United State's use of word America!"
No, it does not. The opposite.
Well then, it comes out in the open. Please keep your nationalistic arguments out of the debate. You need to read my comments closely. I am merely turning this web site's arguments on their head. I am arguing with the same tired rhetoric I hear from the political Left dailey. I do this because I have a different perspective from you. I understand your views, but we disagree. Try to be more tolerant. Poltical ideology only goes so far. Remember, to love your country for your country's sake is a good thing. I wish you well.