If we don’t like being called United Statians, which we don’t, we will simply continue calling ourselves ‘Americans’, and our country ‘America’. Many other people around the world will continue doing this too. Language doesn’t follow your fake rules, no matter how much you cry.

The meaning of the word "America" changes when people make the changes and this is what happened with the U.S. People in the U.S. started using the name "America" to call their country even though the name belonged to the continent in which the U.S. is located. The word was changed by the actions of the U.S. and this action is in question today more than ever since the technology helps other people in America see how the U.S. has managed to use the name of the continent and spread it across the world as if it was always theirs to take. Trying to excuse the actions taken by the U.S., by saying that meanings of words change is absurd! Yes, meanings of words do change, but in this case, the meaning of the name America did not change, the continent is still named America.

Many people around the world? What do you know about the world? I bet you don't even know what the capital of Austria is. For your information, you have all Spanish speaking countries attached to the original and true definition of "America", a name they invented 511 years ago. All European countries but the UK also consider America to be a unique continent. America is a "latino" name. If your president hates anything "latino", why don't you run a contest for your country's name?

And, of course, at the end of the day, no matter what you write, no matter what you think, no matter what you want, no matter what you need, ‘America’ and ‘American’ will be used, by people all over the world, to refer to the United States and its citizens. You know this. You cannot do anything about it. Nothing. Nada. We have already won.

You won nothing - more and more people are stopping Calling The Unites States "America"

Because they know that America is a continent and NOT a country as you think it is.

People call the country ‘America’ because they know that one of its meanings is the United States of America. You lost this battle even before you starting posting your nonsense.

How do you like them apples?

As long as they are granny smith apples

You forgot about Central America. America is North America,Central America and South America.

Why do people forgot about Central America, Poor Central America.

They didn’t forget about Central America. In the two continent model of the Americas, Central America is part of North America, so when North America is mentioned, it includes Central America. Please learn some basic facts before posting. Your errors are tiresome.

Your errors are tiresome as well. CHECK YOUR FACTS

What you say is very unlikely! Wouldn't the illegal immigrants coming through the South border be then called North Americans rather than Central Americans?????

Roda, you are truly dumber than dirt.

America is NOT a continent. North America and South America are. America is a country. It is kinda like saying you are from New York, when you are actually from New York City. Both are correct

Okay what continent is your America in and what countries are in your America?

You are wrong. The correct logic is "all people from NYC live in the State of NY, but not all people from the State of NY live in NYC". The same way, all people from the USA live in America, but not all people from America live in the USA.

Prove it! Prove that internationally the lawful name of the United States is America!

It’s funny that you, of all people, are asking for proof. You are such a hypocrite. You won’t admit the obvious that the 1507 Waldseemüller map clearly shows that only South America is labeled as ‘America’. Therefore, your definition of ‘America’ — that it is all of the Americas — is not the original meaning of the word. It is just one of many different meanings, in different languages, of the word. Where is your proof that when Schöner said that Parias IS NOT part of America, that he meant that it IS part of America? Answer me that, you bu11sh1t artist.

Chico, David, a ti te hace falta un pedazo de historia. El nombre de America fue dado a el nuevo mundo, el nuevo continente que estaba creciendo a como se hiban encontrando mas tierras. Porque el continente se expandia cada vez mas que se encontraban nuevas tierras, no quiere decir de que el nombre cambiaba de significado, al contrario se entiende de que su significado probablemente ya estaba definido en las mentes de los Europeos con la idea de que America era, hiba a ser, y seria, el cuarto continente, o cuarto mundo. El significado no cambio, solo se extendio a las nuevas tierras ayacentes. Tu teoria de que las palabras/nombres cambian de significado no sirve como ejemplo del porque los Estados Unidos se apropio del nombre del continente.

There is no official document where the United States is referred to as simply "America". Their United Nations desk is labelled "United States".

What don’t you understand about the concept of common or colloquial names? It isn’t difficult. Official documents are very unlikely to refer to the USA as ‘America’ because that isn’t the country’s official name. Duh!

However, as is completely obvious, ‘America’ is most definitely a very commonly used colloquial or common name for the USA. How does proving the obvious fact that ‘America’ is not the USA’s official name disprove the obvious fact that ‘America’ is one of the USA’s colloquial names? I will give you a hint: it doesn’t.

So you have always been wrong then. Anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence and honesty knows that the USA has a name. Actually, it has several. It has both official names and common or colloquial names. Please think before you comment. Thanks.

Then who are the Ugly Americans all the Europeans refer to??? That must mean all the Americas according to your statement and most everybody else's. Look the UK is composed with different countries, but when anyone says the UK on the News most all associate that with Great Britain, that are also Europeans. When most people of the world use the term Americans they are referring to the USA. It may be technically wrong, buts that's how it is. What do you call people who live in Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Etc. So who are we? Unitedtarains....Statesmen??? No we are Americans!

You are right that the Waldseemüller map clearly shows that ‘America’ only applied to South America and that ‘Parias’ applied to North America. However, words can and do develop different meanings over time. This clearly happened with ‘America’. So it is not incorrect to refer to all of the Americas as ‘America’. It is not incorrect to refer to the USA as ‘America’. We don’t have to only use the original meaning of a word.

David words don't develop new meanings, humans change the meaning of words, or adapt them to other things. America is originally the name of a continent. In this continent, America, many nations were founded. One nation, the United States, having a peculiar history of how it was founded and for what, added the name of the continent in which it was located in. Some would argue that it was probably to show the English Crown how different they wanted to be from them once the U.S. gained its independence so they made sure the name would remind Europeans that the U.S. was no longer under the influence of Europe. They then embrace the continent in which they were in, America. It takes humans to change a word, and the people of the U.S. began using it to call themselves other than English or European, so they began calling themselves "Americans".

The continent in which all other American countries are located in. Maybe the U.S. is the only one copying the name of the continent and that is the reason why they call themselves America. The rest of the countries in America, did not take or copy the name of the continent that they are in.

He said country, not continent. Your reading comprehension is terrible.

David, my intention was not to answer it as you would, but to answer it as I wanted to. I answered it to show that it doesn't matter how many countries have the name "America" in their names, that would not change that the continent, in which those countries are located in, is the bearer of that name! If only the U.S. is using the name America as a country, and others are not, maybe it should tell us a very important fact...that it is incorrect! The other countries have respected the name of the continent by not using America as their name and have kept it the way it was intended to be originally as the name of the continent.

You are quite wrong. America is a Continent not a Country.

Wrong....NORTH America is a Continent! Canadians, Mexicans, and Americans are all North Americans, but as in our name, USA, we are Americans! We Americans don't give a Sh*t what you or the Europeans think, so FO with all this PC *****!

Where would you categorize Panamenians? Costa Ricans? Hondurans?

Are you saying that South Americans are not American? Were your parents cousins?

You are actually WRONG “JW”. NORTH America is a Continent? Yes!

But saying “Canadians, Mexicans, and Americans are all North Americans” is FALSE information being as “NORTH America” refers to “the NORTH division of America” and “North AMERICANS” are “AMERICANS of America’s North division” which is totally NOT USA’s North division!

Therefore, saying “Americans are all North Americans (and only North Americans)” makes no sense and does not exist. Just because America is in your country’s name, USA, all of you are NOT Americans whenever identifying yourselves by nationality!

All of you United Statesians DO HAVE TO give a Sh*t to what we or the Europeans know are facts, so we all will NOT FO with all of this NON-PC *****!

America has multiple meanings in many languages. We all know that many people call the USA ‘America’, so this is obviously one of its meanings.

WRONG! Mexico's name is The United Mexican States.