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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Great website! I use it regularly in Youtube comments lol. Now we just need <denonym>arenothispanics.com (e.g. mexicansarenothispanics.com) and latinsareextinct.com
Latin: Italic tribe from Latium - annexed by Rome in 338 BC (2nd Latin war)
Hispanic: Roman people of Hispania (present day Spain and Portugal) - last seen around 600 AD
Latinamerican: label for dumb sheep to place themselves underneath people from the USA.
We're all freaking Americans UTC-2 and -9, period! (Maybe Hawaiians too, not sure)
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“...used the Spanish word...”
America was not originally a Spanish word. Get your facts straight. And the Spanish were originally much less likely to use the name ‘America’ than the English were. The Spanish much more frequently used ‘Las Indias Occidentales’, not ‘America’. The English officially called their colonies ‘English America’ and then ‘British America’. The English used the name ‘America’ much more than the Spanish did. Nice try, payasa. Read a book, for Christ’s sake.
America is a continent.
Las Americas is a plural.
"The United States Of America" is a country.
Hahaha, i see that you are back in your old you. The English got into the game very late. The word America is a latinized girl name for Americus. What ever you think on who used it more or less, the case is that the word was coined to name the continent not a country, where even the English knew that way back then. I do read. As a matter of fact, I was in Spain this Summer and bought some books. One is about Americo vespuccio, "Relato de un error historico" the other is "El Enigma de Colon y los descubrimientos de AMERICA." I also bought one when I was in Italy, "La Conquista Dell'America". None of these books refer to the United States by the way.
The error has been to interpret what the Spanish called the 3 subcontinents as "Las Americas" when they wanted to divide it into the three sub-regions of America; North America, Central America, and South America. So, Las Americas is what it is, just the 3 subregions of America. English speaking nations took it a step further and used the Spanish word to name the two continents idea that they teach in the U.S. So for them, Las Americas or The Americas, is a two continent version of the one original continent. But the whole thing gets a twist when the English speaking tries to add Central America to become part of what they view as a North American continent. Why? Because when treaties and other things that the USA does with its North American partners the Central American region gets excluded. Why? Well, because when one tries to change something that was accepted originally as one continent, things get messed up.
You’re back with your fanciful musings? What a bunch of BS.
I also traveled to Europe in the Summer..lol! Guess what! I was about to go visit the Casa de America and El museo de America when in Spain but they were closed on Sunday and couldn't go. I would had loved to see what they had in that museum. I did buy books though.
Oh, and the casa de America and museo de America did mean the USA!
hahahaha mistake! Forgot to add "Did not mean the USA"
America is a name and not matter what stupid language try to get excuses to translate it.
Proper names get no translation.
"America" the name of the continent.
Do I care what language you speak?
America is America in whatever language you stupid idiot.
Dave, can you show me any legitimate source that says it is ‘United States Of America’? Of course, your ignorant, erroneous, simple-minded, biased, ridiculous fantasy world doesn’t count as a legitimate source.
The United States of America is a region.
The United States Of America is a country.
Wrong. Try again.
https://www.un.org/en/member-states/
https://www.un.org/fr/member-states/index.html
https://www.un.org/es/member-states/index.html
The United States Of America
In the US, most people refer to the whole landmass as “The Americas”.
Do those main people also call Asia "The Asias"?and, "The Europes", "The Africas", etc
That is not an excuse.
"America" is a continent.
"The United States Of America" is a country.
2. No existe razón alguna para censurar el plural las Américas, que tiene larga tradición en español y resulta una denominación expresiva válida, alusiva a las distintas áreas o subcontinentes (América del Norte, Centroamérica y América del Sur): «La iglesia de San Pedro Claver, el primer santo de las Américas» (GaMárquez Vivir [Col. 2002]). Este plural expresivo está también presente en la locución hacer las Américas, usada en España con el sentido de ‘hacer fortuna en América’.
http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?id=hBnnxR9MOD6YmtLAqN
Hahaha look where I found you all...!Of course! Las Americas has been in the Spanish language since around the time of the Conquista de America. Is exactly as you have quoted it. Las Americas was the name to call the 3, three SUB-continents in America. The Spanish also used to call LAS EUROPAS, LAS INDIAS, etc. So there is nothing knew there except that now you know also know. Did you noticed that it was to call the "3" subcontinents? Not two continents as the USA teaches? So, what the Latin American countries have been teaching has not been tainted nor changed and this is why this issue with the use of the name of a continent by a country in the continent.
The United States Of America is part of North-America.
So, are you an American?
well, I am from Peru which is in South America, so I am a Latin-American
No, if you are from south america then you are south-american. There is no continent or subcontinent named "latin-america". Is not a geographical category.
I know that I am South-American. I already said it.
But latin-american is a fit for the people of Peru.
It is clear that American people are the ones from The United States Of America.
Latin American is a denomination to call people who SPEAK a language derived from the old language "Latin" not that they are from either Central America or South America or even from the North of America, North America, sub region of America. One thing that people seem to have forgotten is that when divided, America, into this concept of languages, usually the line of division begins in Mexico all the way to Argentina to denominate Latin Americans, and to denominate the rest in the north, USA and Canada, the denomination or name given to those speaking English in those countries is "Anglosaxon" Or in Spanish "Anglosajones" Thereby, the division which has been known in schools and according to languages has been Latin America and Anglo America. In spanish is Latino America and America Anglosajona. So, calling yourselves Latin American is not necessarily to nominate the country you are born in. Is due to the language people speak in those countries.
I am from Belize and Latin-American is not a fit to my country, I know we are Center-American.
I am from Brazil and Latin-American is not a fit to my country neither.
Good to know, that means that Canada and Mexico are North-American.
American are the people of The United States Of America.
They are North-American too!.
This is the point which I have been talking about. If the English Speaking world teaches a 2 continent version of America, why only include 3 countries,hence Mexico, the USA and Canada? When there are more countries to mention if one is to follow the English system of continents? The error lies on the concept that the origin of the name the USA calls itself is the actual name of the continent and in trying to divide it into 2 continents, things don't measure up. One can't have two continents and not include Central America at all. One can not sustain an error for too long. America was, has been and is the name given to a one continent and the not a country.
2. El uso de Norteamérica como sinónimo de Estados Unidos de América está bastante generalizado: «En América, solamente la República Argentina tiene organizados sus cultivos usando tecnología moderna, exceptuando Canadá y Norteamérica» (Crespo Champiñón [Arg. 1991]). Aunque no sea censurable, dada su frecuencia, es preferible mantener la distinción de ambas denominaciones, Estados Unidos de América para el país y Norteamérica o América del Norte para todo el subcontinente, especialmente en contextos en que su referencia pueda ser ambigua.
3. Aunque el gentilicio norteamericano designa, en rigor, a los habitantes de toda América del Norte, se usa corrientemente como sinónimo de estadounidense (→ Estados Unidos, 4).
http://lema.rae.es/dpd/?key=norteamericano
Why only include one country, hence the USA, when there are more countries to mention?
why?
Because America is a continent and The United States Of America is a country.
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