You will never reverse this oddity of English vocabulary, no matter how much you bellyache about it on the Internet. Sorry that basic lingual fact contradicts y

You will never reverse this oddity of English vocabulary, no matter how much you bellyache about it on the Internet. Sorry that basic lingual fact contradicts your sense of fairness or whatever. If it helps, you can think of "American" as shorthand for "American of the United States". If that doesn't help, I suggest you just get over it.