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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I think that the indignation is calmed when knowing that they had to invent patches in their language, and some are interesting and knowing them is useful:
America = the Americas
American = Pan American
South America = continent
North America = continent
America = informal abbreviation for The United States of America
CORRECTED VERSION, SORRY
I think that the indignation is calmed when knowing that they had to invent patches in their language, and some are interesting and knowing them is useful:
América = the Americas
americano = Pan American
South America = continent
North America = continent
America = informal abbreviation for The United States of America
Pan-America, Panamericano, Panamericana, or in English Panamerican. Not Panamericas, Panamericasno, Panamericasna, Panamericasn. What does it mean? Prefix. Pan -, a prefix from the Greek πᾶν, pan , meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group. All of America = Pan America. And it doesn't mean the USA. The carretera Panamericana does not only go through the U.S.A. but throughout America the continent. Pan-Americana Pan-American doesn't relate to the USA only and as you can see it means Everything in America is American not the USA though.
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David are you okay? Or are you avoiding our questions?
1- "America" the nickname of a nation
In 1776, the first nation-state of America (the Americas) to emerge from European colonies is named "The United States of America", a name that is not easy to use for its people -too long-, the name comes from the name used during the war and revolution of independence "The United Colonies", then "colonies" are changed to "states" and the name of the continent is added to give it strength against the mighty Great Britain.
More than a century later the "problem" of the name was still there, although there was an official abbreviation, "United States", its people began to abbreviate it in another way, using the last word, "America". But there is still no country called America, only one called The United States of America.
Only people who are closed minded would think that the United States invented the name of America for itself thereby having a different meaning from the one given. They think it didn't meant the continent in which the nation was born in. But even when some say it was to mean the continent in which it was located in, that later it somehow changed its meaning. Did it change by itself or was it on purpose?
I think that at the beginning, until the middle of the 20th century, they knew well that the word America was there in the name of the continent, that can be seen in old maps in English from before the 50s, where in their titles it says "American continent" or "America", not "The Americas" or "South America continent" or "North America continent". But the following generations grew up with those denominations, they are not to blame.
Yes they knew about one continent America so what happened?
...Jewish-Arab conflict/discrepancy between teachers’ knowledge or declarative level of pluralism, and their attitudes or actual behaviors; or the United Statian challenges of growing re-segregation, inequality in school funding, and childhood poverty rates...
- 14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
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...a catalyst reaction, in the sense that members of several hundred ethnic groups in the United States produced something more than the neologism of a United Statian? Has God himself... - Journal of Mind and Behaviour, Spring 1984, Vol. 5, Num 2
Wow. So what?
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David why are you so focused on Parias again? If you want to make a point that it was called like that in maps why is it that the United States didn't call itself "United States of Parias"?
I am surprised that no one thinks "how ridiculous, to declare South America and North America as continents so that the demonym American IN ITS LANGUAGE is a nationality, leave them! Anyway it is in their language, very ridiculous! haha!" but no, I hope it is not our inferiority complex. For me they are just one more country in the world.
That's ***** Fabian. So it is OK for you to insult United Statians in Spanish, only because it is your language?
David you agreed that America is the one continent why do you call it the Americas?
Dishonesty?
David x 3 x 3 x 2