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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Mrs. Anonymous wrote: “If you read what happened, yes they took Texas thanks to the inhabitants there who chose to go with the U.S.. but they could not go down to Mexico and they retrieved.”
I am shocked, shocked I tells you, that you don’t know what you are talking about. The US didn’t just take Texas. How do you not know this? You are monumentally ignorant. How have you not learned by now to keep your mouth shut when you so obviously don’t know the relevant history? How can you possibly pretend to be informing anyone of anything when you obviously have no clue?
It’s called the Mexican Cession. Read a book.
Considering the seizures, including all of Texas, Mexico lost 54% of its pre-1836 territory in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession
The Mexican Cession of 1848 refers to the lands ceded or surrendered to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican–American War.[1] The territory became the states of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.[1] It was agreed to in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which formally ended the war (1846–1848) between Mexico and the United States.[2] The treaty was signed on 2 February 1848.[2] The Cession added 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 km2) of territory to the southwestern United States. It also contributed to the United States emerging as a world power in the late the 19th century.[2]
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Cession
We are not talking about Mexico and America.
Here we are supposed to talk about why Americans own their demonym as Americans.
They are America and American is their demonym.
States United in America.
Mexico is not united with America sorry, they are Mexico.
America is too american for you.
The United States Of America
Is Puerto Rico owned by Americans?,
Are they americans or Americans?, or perhaps Puerto Ricans?
They were already in America before they were attached to the now called States of America.
Oh look, this website asks what country I am typing from and it lists Puerto Rico as one of them.
Isn't Puerto Rico already taken by The States of America?
States Of America.
Puerto Rico!
take it easy Chris.
States of America!
Is Puerto Rico also united?
They can not unite. They are under the American philosophies.
That's why the country has a name as "America".
That's why its name is The United States Of America.
As of today, no one else could be united anymore with The USA and therefore any land would be classified as part of the United States Of America, the unification already happened a long time ago.
The United States Of America does not need any more unifications, they already did that.
That's why they have a name. It became a name and they will forever be a name.
That name is "United States Of America"
U.S. congressman Lucas M. Miller of Wisconsin was an odd dude. He served just one term in the House, and when you look at the bills he introduced it's easy to guess why. Back in 1893, Miller proposed abolishing the Army and Navy, wiping out pension laws, and even wanted to amend the U.S. Constitution to rename the United States of America to something a bit more sci-fi: "The United States of Earth."
Why would he want to do this? Was it some proto-hippie way of saying that the U.S. was just part of a larger global community? Nope. It was because Miller believed that the U.S. empire would expand so much that it would eventually swallow up the entire world.
it was made in "America".
Who cares you thought otherwise, that's your stupid problem.
made in America!
It was made in America, not China.
It makes no sense if you write down "made in Europe".
It makes no sense if you write down "made in Asia".
Clearly, everyone has to assume that if it is made in America it has to be done by the only America we all know.
Is there another America?, I don't think so.
The United States Of America
You lose and I WIN this game show game!!!
Words can and do have multiple meanings. The meanings you don’t like are not incorrect or mistaken. Deal with reality.
Spain??
Mexico??
1507 and 1538. Accept the significance of these dates.
Using ‘America’ to refer to the Americas represents a change in meaning of a proper noun. What don’t you understand about this?
Because your precious, sacred, preferred meaning IS NOT THE ORIGINAL MEANING!!!!
You continue with the crazy explanation of yours that the map had the name "America" in what the South of America. BAH! If you read antique maps, names sometimes are not necessarily right on top of the whole thing. Anyways, Europeans gave the new world its name and the name stuck as more lands were discovered. You seem to skip that part. So, let me ask you, when the USA extended itself all the way to the West annexing the Mexican states of California, COlorado, etc, according to your way of thinking, that new part is not under the United States name? Give me a break!
Americas is a plural, just like Europes, Africas, etc.
Don't get messed up with grammar and languages.
America is the new world.
In the new world everyone is american. Others are Americans, Mexicans, Canadians, etc.
Spread into Mexico??
Yes. Mexico.