United Statian is a real demonym. We are not deciding it here, whether we like it or not :)

So is ‘American’ for US citizens. It’s already been decided. It’s already used by billions of people, unlike ‘United Statian’, whether anyone likes it or not. :)

Well said dude!

Exactly! And a good example is David. He just confessed it. Wrong no matter how popular will still be wrong. Yes, the issue has been that the U.S. has been using the name America for a long long time and that does not make it correct in the sense that they think it is their name. Meanwhile, the name America belongs to a continent.

Yawn. Nice try. Italians very commonly call US citizens ‘americanos’.

This is the best you got? Sad. Yawn.

Pure BS. Federal republics are nations and countries. Stop pretending to be clever with your lame semantic games.

It is not semantic, this is the origin of the use of "American" among those who were part of the confederation of the 13 new countries of America (the continent), that is, because they did it -as it could not be otherwise- in its continental sense , they did not believe they were integrating ONE COUNTRY but that each one of them was or felt like a country, that is, they called themselves "Americans" in the same sense that we still do today in countries like Mexico, Argentina, Brazil or Cuba , because our countries belong to the continent America we are "americanos" (Americans).

For example, what was the name of the congress that declared US American independence? The Second CONTINENTAL Congress! Why "continental" and not national? In the declaration of independence of the United States, the word "nation" does not appear anywhere, as it does in that of Argentina, "...and invest itself with the high character of A free and independent NATION of King Ferdinand the seventh..."

Or the "Continental Army", or the American flag being nicknamed "Continental Colors" and several other examples like that.

The idea of considering one nation and not a group of several grew slowly, only in the second half of the 19th century, most likely as a result of the civil war in the 1960s.

besides "Continental colors" another nickname for the US American flag was "Congress flag", not "national colors"

The U.S. was in the business of extending the Union throughout the continent but it didn't take the entire continent of America. Thus, they kept the name thinking they would grab more nations of the continent as they thought. They called it "Manifest Destiny". "Powerfully articulated in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, Adams’s coolheaded geopolitical calculations provided later generations of U.S. officials with a road map for the advancement of American dominion in the Western Hemisphere. Meanwhile, Americans in the 1830s and 1840s justified their march across the continent under the rubric of “Manifest Destiny.” Coined by a New York newspaper, the term described the popular desire for geographic expansion and, as such, was more a zeitgeist than an official foreign policy strategy in antebellum America.12"

each of the States which formed the Union of the United States was a sovereign nation in themselves. They were Sovereign States which formed a union to be stronger against the Europeans especially England. These Sovereign States were located in America, the continent and in North America, the subcontinent. Their goal was to unite all continental nations into what the United States of America would be but they only succeeded with taking and buying lands and made it the United States that it is today.

Give us some context, payaso.

It’s “who’s”, not “what’s”.

Lionardo Messi an Argentinian is considered the best American and World football player.

From America? Messi

Enner Valencia of Ecuador

jajaja

To show that I am as secure in my identity as Latin Americans, I am going to start a website in which I whine and cry about disrespect, theft, exclusion, and oppression because Latin Americans sometimes use ‘América’ to refer exclusively to Latin America. That’s not what the name means! They’re stealing the name! Why are they so ignorant and insensitive?!?

Mrs. Anonymous, before you subject us to your BS, I am not being serious. People are free to use ‘América’ to refer to just LA. It isn’t incorrect. It doesn’t bother me. Names very often have multiple referents, as is the case with ‘América’ and ‘America’.

Hey to name a city with the name of the continent in honor of it, it should not be an issue. But the issue is that the U.S. is using as a country name the actual name of the continent as many people know it and learned it. A city wouldn't have this conflict with let's say, the federal government offices because it is such a small place that it would not be competing with the continent as the U.S. is when it uses the continent's name. And please, when you try to use this SENSITIVITY issue, let me tell you it doesn't work. It is not a sensitive issue for if it was you would be hearing it from the snowflakes and the left in the U.S. would had already bowed to it.

I used LA to refer to Latin America. Nobody calls Los Angeles ‘América’. I assumed that you would understand this from the context since Latin America was clearly mentioned. Given your amply-demonstrated intellectual deficiencies, I should have known that you can’t be relied upon to understand the context of a statement.

Your reasoning on the difference between calling a city and a country ‘America’ is more of your typical BS. It’s just more of your nonsensical justifications that have no basis in reality. It isn’t incorrect in any way to call the US ‘America’.

Sorry but he teacher needs a good lesson. He is a bit confused on what he is teaching. Ibero America is not called like that out of pride! Latin America is also not a name out of pride. Anglo America is not a name out of pride. And trying to make this a sensitive issue is actually twisting the whole issue.