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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Comments (1456)
We have to respect all the American countries, so that they can start respecting us.
Someone was really this hard pressed to go and pay for a website just because people refer to the US as America.
Most United Statians refer to their country as America. They have serious identity issues, but they are nowadays learning beyond their frontiers.
I'm one of those who don't. I like to refer to my country as Usonia
Most citizens of the U.S. have been conditioned to do as the leaders say and do. Sadly, it is no longer a secret as we can see it on the how the media influences people. Taken the name of the continent is not a coincidence but part of their plan. No difference with the name "America". These people play with people's minds and the people take it as is without questioning. America, as all know, is the name given to the new world by Europeans.
I do not understand what is the problem that two that a continent and a country are called the same
https://youtu.be/8JKDxCPZOSU
https://online.seterra.com/en/p/america
Muy buen aporte, Fran. Gracias guapo.
You very concerned because the United States also calls itself America, but no one stops calling "Greece" to Hellada, "China" to Zonghuó and "Egypt" to Misr (These are their TRUE names!).
How much hypocrisy!
Miss Nono Morgan, what happens is that China is not a continent, Egypt is not a continent, and Greece is not a Continent, so no other countries are offended.
Think a bit.
good point
The Netherlands did take offense at its extremely misnomer "Holland", and it was not a discussion about the continental.
but why are people not calling greece, egypt, and china what they call themselves?
The United Statian Family
https://youtu.be/x3-tQDrENOA
there's America, and then there's 'Murica
United States is of America not itself America.
Discover what's genuinely America and American
https://www.loc.gov/item/74693287/
The history of the United States says it all. Why invent something that is not? America is the name of the continent in which the United States formed its union as a nation and they didn't use a name only The United States and then added "Of America". It was never that a nation existed as America and then was divided into states hence the United States.
America in the name of a Continent. Any other use is still a reference to the continent. Otherwise it is wrongly used.