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In the USA, “America” is a name of our country and “Americans” is the name for residents of the country. Canadians, Mexicans, and residents of South America etc
by D13Fd 3y ago
In the USA, “America” is a name of our country and “Americans” is the name for residents of the country. Canadians, Mexicans, and residents of South America etc are certainly not “Americans”.
This isn’t anything new, and it’s not “appropriated”
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoI understood America to be the name of the continent (i.e. The Americas) and "United States of America" to be the name of a country. What term would you use to refer to residents of North America or residents of both North and South America? ("United States of America" implies the existence of other, non-united states of America, which I interpret as all the other countries within the America continent)
- drstewart 3y ago>What term would you use to refer to residents of North America or residents of both North and South America? North Americans or North and South Americans This is also a concept people reference much, much less often than residents of America the country.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoThat leads to the strange paradox of South Americans not being American
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoNot strange at all in context.