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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In the United States is the headquarters of an institution with a curious name ... the Organization of American States (?). I mean, are they US countries?!!
How is it curious? It is an obvious fact that ‘American’ has multiple meanings, you dumba55. Many words have multiple meanings. Stop being a proud simpleton. There is no universal law of diction that says that only your preferred meanings exist. You are such a clown.
There he goes again with America having multiple meanings! There is an original meaning, the name of a continent, and the country copied its name because the U.S. is located in that continent.
I have never argued against this. Stop pretending that I am.
who thinks otherwise?
They were believing that everybody was American, they got confused. It is technical!
Hey American Citizens, you are the best!
we are America!.
Who thinks otherwise?
United States Of America
United States Of America
Only my people are American Citizen and that is clearly understood, I do not see any confusions.
sorry, correction,
my people, American Citizens, with (s), plural. That is how you recognize what is correct or incorrect, sometimes, it becomes stupid.
We do not blame anybody.
It is okay, the new world ended to be a new America, and that America makes you confused.
Thank you again American Citizen!, be proud out there!, be an American!
be clear, who is american.
who else bears the name America?, no one else, but, you remain stupid. I do not even care that you are a stupid. In fact, it is very common to be stupid. You are stupid. I still do not even care!.
It is too american for you, stupid.
United States Of America!
I do not even care that you do not like it and that is fine with me, you!, still stupid.
thank you American Citizen!
In the English-speaking countries their geography teaches something different from most other countries of other languages for which "America" is a continent, and which is divided into regions, south, north and center. In the English-speaking South America is a continent not a region, and the same with North America. This is why for an English speaker the word America alone seems to be vacant. That is the root of all this problem I think.
It’s only a problem for the congenitally butthurt with deep inferiority complexes.
Correcto! The root of the problem is that the U.S. needed to keep the name of the continent and so it divided the continent into two and ran with that idea...and spread it around the world. It is so obvious!
Who else has the American citizenship?
No one else other than the people born in The United States Of America.
That is why they are Americans!
But, you want to still be stupid, and, I do not care.
The United States Of America!
I asked a Mexican citizen, are you american? he said yes and it was okay with me.
He knows he is a Mexican citizen.
He does know that he is not an American citizen, that is why he is Mexican and not American.
We all know he is an american born in Mexico.
But, if I say that he is Mexican, what is the logic to point out that he is american?, is not Mexico already in America? that you lack understanding and knowledge is your own stupid problem.
There is no time for me to explain you that Mexico is an american country, you should already know that unless you are from the eastern hemisphere.
that is right!, for the rest of the other continents I am an american.
For America, I am simply Mexican.
For America, saying Mexican is enough to understand where my country is.
Americans would forever be Americans.
Mexico!