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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The colonists were careful on drawing a line between what was of the Crown/Europe and what was the colonists/from the American continent. Separation was in important aspect to them for example taxes: "Colonists were careful to draw distinction between internal and external taxes. Internal taxes were those imposed by the provincial government, members of which were elected by residents, therefore had the power given by the people to tax them. External taxes were enacted to regulate trade of the empire."
Okay David let's start this over again...So the British people who came to America knew they came to a continent and the name is America. One example taken from the resolutions of the STAMP Act in 1765: "The members of this Congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty’s Person and Government, inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the Protestant succession, and with minds deeply impressed by a sense of the present and impending misfortunes of the British colonies on this continent; having considered as maturely as time will permit the circumstances of the said colonies, esteem it our indispensable duty to make the following declarations of our humble opinion, respecting the most essential rights and liberties of the colonists,...".
A little farther in the same document we read this: "VIII. That the late Act of Parliament, entitled, An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, etc., by imposing taxes on the inhabitants of these colonies, and the said Act, and several other Acts, by extending the jurisdiction of the courts of Admiralty beyond its ancient limits, have a manifest tendency to subvert the rights and liberties of the colonist"
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. You are so simple-minded, ignorant, biased, pathetic, and dishonest.
So you see, the continent in which the British Colonies and plantations are is in the continent of America.
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. You are so simple-minded, ignorant, biased, pathetic, and dishonest.
Thanks my friend
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. You are so simple-minded, ignorant, biased, pathetic, and dishonest.
It is ridiculous to makeup a name (e.g. Latin America) for the wider part of America. Normally you rename the smaller parts. But the United Statians have the media to fake and change everything until people get used to it. I'm with Rory. United States of Washington!
Look into the origin of the term ‘Latin America’. It wasn’t Americans who made it up. Also, it is commonly used by Latin Americans themselves. Please get your facts straight for once. Thanks.
Hey!!! you do not need to take the blame for everything Davidsito. You're just one more United Statian. The world is bigger.
Mrs. Anonymous wrote: “Is this not you a day ago?”
For the third time, no, it wasn’t me who wrote that. Whoever it was copied part of what I wrote months ago and then tacked on their own ending.
They also recently wrote this under the name David: “Read a United Statian book!!”
for the way it was written it sounded like it was you.
I recently told an American girl on YouTube that in Spanish America was still a continent as it used to be in English, and she hesitated and told me "so if America is a continent, a Canadian would also be American" but after that reflection her mind He went back and thought that if you call a Canadian American, he might insult you. Whoever grew up with the meaning of a word in a certain way will have many difficulties to see it in another, but as I demonstrated with this anecdote it is possible.
America in English started like an idiom where the word has been used by people as a figurative language which means it was not meant to be literally as the country's name but they use it erroneously and it has spread without being challenged. People picked it up and kept it going thinking is naming the USA. But here we are telling people that the name is the continent's and that the U.S. used it as a continent, but as I said,the name was later erroneously spread throughout the world in something similar to an idiom. Long ago, I gave the example of the Kleenex. Most people ask for a Kleenex when they really should say "tissue paper" or Band-aid where there should say "a bandage". So, when people say America when referring to the USA,it means the continents name.
Thanks for the links to facts.
how about you prove it wrong!
It says so much about you that you feel no need to prove what you claim. But we all know that you cannot prove what you claim because what you claim is BS. So pathetic.
So in other words, you can not prove what I said as wrong!
Hey Fabian, are you sure you are not a United Statian too? faking to be Argentinian?
¡¡¡Soy argentino hasta los huevos!!! ¡Boludo!
Fabián, most who post here aren’t expecting honesty and facts from a Latin American, or from themselves. They expect lies, fantasy, denial of reality, and wishful thinking. This is why they doubt your nationality. You get some things wrong, but your posts are mostly accurate. Keep up the good fight.
"AmÉrica" is not the same as "Amerrrrica!" Jaja
"AmÉrica" is not the same as "Amerrrrica!"
My challenge to all of you still stands. Take a direct quote of something I have written. Find a quote from a reputable source that directly contradicts what I wrote and, therefore, proves it wrong. Post that quote and provide the link to it. This is what I do to all of you on a regular basis. You have never proved me wrong. Not once. I have schooled Mrs. Anonymous so many times over the years. She would absolutely love to do the same to me, but she never has. That’s because I only post facts that are supported by reputable sources. I post links to the sources. You rarely post links because your BS has no proof because it’s BS. That is the very nature of BS. Your feelings, desires, hopes, resentments, fanciful musings, and wishful thinking do not and cannot make your BS into the truth.
I win this game show game. Again. And again. Over and over. Rinse and repeat.