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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It’s so sad that your only way of “proving me wrong” is to repeatedly post the obvious fact that the name ‘America’ referred to a continent before it referred to the USA. NO 5HIT, SHERLOCK!!! I have never claimed otherwise, and you know it. How can this possibly be all that you’ve got?!?! You have to know how idiotic you and your “arguments” are. Stop pretending that you are making an honest, coherent, logical, and factual argument that disproves my statements. You simply aren’t. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. You are a pathetic and simple-minded ignoramus.
Calm down don't have a fit! So far according to the historical fact of how the nation began, you agree that the nation was born in the continent of America, right? So next step is to find out how did the U.S. took the name of the continent in which it was located and later decided to divide that same continent that, you know and now have read through these quotes I have provided, that it was ONE continent and called America. It is important because there is a point where the U.S. divides this same continent that they knew it was one, into two. See that I am not as pathetic as you say I am, for I have provided you a small fact that there was a change somewhere in history that we need to find how it was and why was it done. You keep saying I am nuts about what I write but with what we have so far people will understand why I think the way I think the U.S. took the name of America and then divided the continent to grab the name for itself.
You are exactly as pathetic as I say you are. You are doing it again. You are stating obvious facts that I have never disputed, yet you are pretending that I have argued against them. Why don’t you find a post where I state these things that you pretend I am arguing? Find a post, provide a quote from it, and provide a link to it. You cannot do this because I have never made such a post, you monumental dumbass.
Sorry had a loss in the family so I couldn't reply to your posts. I am not here to prove anyone right or wrong, but to have a decent conversation on whether America is originally the name of a continent and that the U.S. took it for themselves and then divided the continent into two. You can offer your opinion, and when possible, back it with facts or historical evidence, and I can give my opinion and when possible, offer facts or historical evidence. You have taken this as if it is a fight. It is not. So calm down please!
In this paragraph one would see that the tax levied was to other colonies in America not under the dominion of the British Crown. The Sugar Act of 1764: "VI. And it be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in lieu and instead of the rate and duty imposed by the said act upon molasses and syrups, there shall, from and after the said twenty ninth day of September..... be raised, levied, collected, and paid, unto his Majesty, his heirs and successors, for and upon every gallon of molasses or syrups, being the growth, product, or manufacture, of any colony or plantation in America, not under the dominion of his Majesty, his heir or successors, which shall be imported or brought into any colony or plantation in America, which now is, or hereafter may be, under the dominion of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, the sum of three pence."
“...the continent in which the British Colonies and plantations are is in the continent of America.”
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. I have pointed out repeatedly that ‘America’ originated as a name for South America and then changed to encompass all of the Americas. You know I have written this many times. This clearly proves I know ‘America’ did not originate as a name for the USA. Given that I have written this, why do you keep pretending that I believe the name originated as a name for the USA? You repeatedly ask me where the name originated even though I have repeatedly stated the facts about the origin. Why do you do this? You do it because you cannot disprove the facts. You do it because you cannot prove your BS. You cannot counter my actual and factual arguments, so you fabricate false and simple-minded arguments and pretend they are my arguments. You are truly pathetic and dishonest.
David said; "Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. I have pointed out repeatedly that ‘America’ originated as a name for South America and then changed to encompass all of the Americas." Are you kidding? When did you do this? Weren't you the one being nasty to me telling me that only South of America was America and that the part of the U.S. was called Parias? Are you now changing your position after I have offered the fact that you were asking about? You are all over the map David, one can't figure out where you really stand. Or do you just do it to provoke people and have a laugh at it later on? People read your posts and see what ou just posted and are going to question your maturity and knowledge after all.
You are so sad. Your intellectual inferiority almost makes me weep.
By 1733 America was still a continent to the British and where the British colonies and plantations were located: The Sugar and Molasses act of 1733: "Whereas the Welfare and Prosperity of Your Majesty’s Sugar Colonies in America are of the greatest Consequence and Importance to the Trade, Navigation, and Strength of this Kingdom: And whereas the Planters of the said Sugar Colonies have of late Years fallen under such great Discouragements, that they are unable to improve or carry on the Sugar Trade upon an equal Footing with the Foreign Sugar Colonies,"
Duh. Thanks, Mrs. Obvious. You are so simple-minded, ignorant, biased, pathetic, and dishonest.
Don't you accept the history of how the British colonies began? It is the beginning of the birth of the United States, and you laugh at it? Are you really a U.S. citizen? are you a troll? A joke? You just don't accept to be wrong. This is only the beginning, there is much more to show you that if I have the time I will.
You never fail to prove that you are dumber than dirt.
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!