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  • I apologize for sounding aggressive. I don’t intent to attack.

    I understand and agree with you in that half (if not more) of the world understands that “Americans” are from USA. That is embeded in several languages. However that is not my point.

    My intention is not to define a language, but to present an argument for the logical incorrectness of using the term “Americans” for citizens of USA.

    Languages are not source of truth in this context because I am not arguing how known or common the term is, but that it is logically incorrect.

    I again apologize for sounding agresive or rude. I appreciate your comments and the sources you provided.






  • You are presenting an ad hominem argument. Do you have anything actually meaningful to bring to the discussion other than your self-righteousness?

    My argument is this:

    First: America is named after the italian cartographer Amerigo Vispucci. He is attributed to be the first to realize America was not India, as Columbus thought. This happened long before the country even existed.

    Second: The name of the country IS United States of America. The word “of” literally means that the group of states is in or belongs to America. Therefore, America cannot be the country itself.

    Third: There are plenty of other examples of continents with geographical subdivisions:

    • East Europe and Europe.
    • South-east Asia and Asia.
    • South Africa and Africa.

    Indeed, there are different types of sub-divisions. For example in America:

    • cultural/linguistic: latin- and anglo-america
    • geographic: north-, central-, south-america. Some also consider the caribean as a same-level distinction.

    None of these divisions create a new continent.

    Fourth: The shorthand “american” was introduced by the french as a quick way to identify the two main variants of English (the language). They started to call the English from England “Anglais”, and the one from this new continent “Anglais américain” or simply “américain”.

    Fifth: in a lighter tone… Would you trust the same country that defends this health “care” system, the imperial units system, and that elected this current president to tell you how to split the world?


    You can see it as pedantic. I see it as respecting the 20+ countries that have to live with this name appropiation. We can of course disagree, but I invite you to bring actual arguments.