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)
Hey, Merry Christmas David. How are the United Statians doing with the coronavirus? Is it better now?
It could be worse, thank you for asking
We have 100K new cases and 1.2K new deaths per day
So so
You should learn from China
Isn't she beautiful?
https://www.epochtimes.de/miss-united-states-lisa-marie-kohrs-foto-ap-photoschalk-van-zuydam
Thanks for the useless post. Well done.
I prefer this one
https://ladycodeblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/miss-united-states-elizabeth-safrit.jpg
I didn't know there was more than one football team with "America" on its name. There is Club America, from Mexico (https://www.clubamerica.com.mx/), and I recently got to know about the Club Sol de America, from Paraguay (https://soldeamerica.com.py/). Both are about 100 years old. Ups, I realize I was a bit ignorant.
Are there more teams?
Good question. I'm not a football fan.
Even better with the fact that despite the team name "Club America" its logo is from most of the entire continent.
El club América de Cali
https://www.americadecali.co/historia/
This has been a pet peeve of mine for years! I've noticed that many times in Latin American newspapers someone from the US is referred to as "estadounidense" which translates to "Unitedstatesan" - a clumsy word indeed.
United Statian? That's normal
If by normal, you mean extremely rare. ‘United Statian’ has existed as a word for roughly a century, but it is extremely, extremely rare. ‘American’ is used to refer to US citizens very commonly. ‘United Statian’ is not used commonly. It is almost never used. Facts are facts.
It depends on the formality and context. Ask the OAS (Organization of American States). My two cents.
Your "facts" are manipulated by US media. Who "uses" that? Your screen transmissions * times the millions of devices. Then you have controlled statistics. Dirty.
Im sorry but you sound retarded
Did you know?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-neAWviQk
Long story short... The British called them Americans and the new western nescients thought they were alone =D
Now they are starting to meet the world.
The United States of America > US America > Usamerican
You are right Americonte! What you said makes the most complete sense!
I’m comment #775! (3/4 of the way to 1,000)
What is mainstream media instilling in United Statians if they only disseminate superficial, negative coverage on Central America?
Heyyyyyyyyy, good news Washingtonians, sorry United Statians... in 48 days Mr. Trump, aka. bunker boy will leave the chair :D
Funny read from another site...
I understand why it’s problematic for US people to call themselves Americans in a way that diminishes other countries on the American continent. But like...US stands for United States...of America. So “American” is just the most logical shorthand??? It’s less of a “we are the superior America” and more of a “our dumbass, racist founding fathers gave us a bad name”
https://64.media.tumblr.com/b00d7690b278832532a56584227586be/tumblr_pfu09ja5KT1qb4vbh_500.jpg
Funny, but still no justification to continue doing it
Here is the English version of that funny picture you sent …
https://fr.memedroid.com/memes/detail/3069312
"At the time when the concept ‘public diplomacy’ was first coined by Gullion, the term was used to refer to previous propaganda activities conducted by the United Statian government during the Cold War in order to influence public opinion abroad."
- Dossiê Escola Inglesa, An English School Approach to Public Diplomacy (2015) Belo Horizonte v. 12, p. 11-17.