> All Americans I know take USA and America to be one and the same, so no complaints here. Perhaps not for you, but that's pretty much the main point here. :)

> All Americans I know take USA and America to be one and the same, so no complaints here. Perhaps not for you, but that's pretty much the main point here. :) > As far as I know people from the southern continent call themselves sudanericanos or alternatively sulanericanos in their native languages. Sudamericanos, latinoamericanos, sul-americanos, latino-americanos OR americanos. They all work. > Again, in English there is no confusion about what the word America refers to. I'm pretty sure I speak English daily, and there is definite confusion. There's also the problem that this language excludes a lot of people. > It may make a difference in Brazilian or South American Spanish, but that’s their problem, not an English problem. Allow me to pick a small nit: the language is Portuguese. In some contexts it may make sense to distinguish the American from the European variety but it's still mainly Portuguese in the same way that US/American English is still English. That doesn't affect the point you're making in any way, of course.