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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The confusion
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Mickey Brainwash
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Let's see, who has been the best United Statian president ever? perhaps Biden?
You obviously know as little about US history as you know about naming. Read some books.
David is not able to answer hahahaHA
America is not a word.
Congratulations, Mrs. Anonymous. At least one other human agrees with your classic “argument”.
Or, imagine in the Olympics, as every country walks in the ceremonies, all of them with similar names and most with the same name. Like there are 10 named "America" and 10 Europe and 10 Asia etc. Well according to David everyone is allowed to do what they want like the U.S. using the name of the continent. Why not right? How would that be?
You’re the stupidest person ever.
“Its me again” is not the stupidest person ever.
It is actually you David that is the STUPIDEST person ever.
America is NOT one of USA’s names. So you are gonna have to get a life.
It is one of the USA’s names because people often call the country ‘America’. That’s what a name is. Think!
NO it’s NOT one of USA’s names. People calling it “America” often, does not mean “it’s what a name is for the country”.
United States is what the name is for the country, NOT AMERICA. Think!
But David that is your way of thinking right! If there is no law or something as you say then the U.S. grabbing the same name as the continent should be okay, right? So in that sense, others are okay to do the same thing and lo and behold...your way of thinking could create havoc in the world with countries with the same name etc.
Let's say from now on Brazil ditches its name and adopts the name United States of America. And Africa feels that South Africa is stealing its name so the countries in Africa decide they will also change the name of hte continent to "America" because they like it. Well, David believes that there has to be a law that says that a country can not take the name of another country or continent but since we can't find that law it is then okay to just keep copying the name of continent's or countries. Maybe what we have is an honor system so that things like that don't happen.
More of your typical BS. I am not talking about a law in the legal sense. I am talking about a law of naming. You won’t find it because it doesn’t exist. That’s why it isn’t incorrect to call the USA ‘America’.
Your hypotheticals are stupid and irrelevant. They haven’t happened, but calling the USA ‘America’ has. Your “arguments” have failed in reality. Now you desperately hope that they will succeed in fantasy land. They won’t. You aren’t going to prove it’s incorrect to call the country ‘America’ just because your idiotic hypotheticals haven’t occurred.
So if it isn't incorrect to call both a nation and a continent "America" why did the US or English Speaking countries don't call the continent "America" same as a nation? How come they had to teach a divided continent to give it a different name "The Americas"? If you say that is okay for both to bear the same name then why the change to "The Americas"? rather than leaving it the way it is?
Have you thought that maybe the hypotheticals I 've suggested doesn't happen because other countries have honored the names of other continent's & countries except the U.S.?
You think it dishonors other countries. I don’t. Either way, ‘America’ is one of the US’s names, and it isn’t incorrect to call it that.
Well think about the nations which are in the continent and all their citizens! They are also Americans!
Imperialism has not died.
I won’t stop using ‘America’ & ‘American’ to refer to the USA & its citizens just because some dislike it and/or are offended. A lot of Americans & others feel the same way I do.
There are always some people who object to any given thing. We don’t have to abandon something just because other people object. If we had to abandon everything that some people objected to, we wouldn’t be able to say or do damn near anything.
The dishonesty, ignorance, inaccuracy, & stupidity of many of the objections has a lot to do with me not altering my usage. Many of the complaints I hear & read are complete BS. There’s absolutely no reason to take the vast majority of them seriously.
People have every right to voice their objections to these globally widespread usages. They have the right to use different terms, no matter how obscure & prone to misunderstanding they may be.
I have every right to use the terms that I choose. It doesn’t matter one iota that you object.
You tell them sweetheart. I got your back. Hope you got mines too. But don't be shy boo, hold on tight.
Anyways I appreciate your distress. Just because I am biologically a man doesn't mean I can't claim to be a woman. If I call myself a woman encouraging others to do the same then I am in fact a woman. There's nothing that prevents men from identifying as a women. Sorry haters but I'm not going to stop identifying as one just because some don't like it. I'm a diva honey and they will just have to deal with it. I be like:
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
And they're like, it's better than yours
Damn right it's better than yours
I can teach you, but I have to charge
if you see yourself as female, then yes, you are female. That's how gender works. but it's not how country names work. USA is not America.
Who decides which names are correct and which are incorrect? What are the rules?
Why can’t you be honest & admit that it isn’t incorrect to call the US and its citizens ‘America’ and ‘Americans’? There is no sacred, all-powerful, universal book of “correct” usages of names. It isn’t floating in the heavens, guarded by baby Jesus, Vishnu, Thor, & the rest of the gang. Be honest. Stop pretending that your dislike of the usages means they are violating some universal rule of naming. I understand your (mostly false & misguided) reasons for not liking the usages, but why do you have to pretend that they’re “incorrect”? If they really were incorrect, why haven’t you been able to provide any proof?
Mrs. Anonymous admits that such rules don’t exist, yet she still says the usages are “erroneous”. She is so biased & full of false pride that she can’t unequivocally state that the usages are not incorrect or erroneous. For the same reasons, she cannot flatly state that ‘America’ originally only referred to South America. Pathetic.
Being 2022, it is time truth of what is genuinely “America” and “American” were properly taught to future generations of US-Americans. Instead of pandering to the self delusions of our narcissistic nation.