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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USA is NOT America(Canada)
I posted this months ago:
By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations. This was also the period when Antarctica was added to the list, despite its lack of human inhabitants, and when Oceania as a "great division" was replaced by Australia as a continent along with a series of isolated and continentally attached islands. The resulting seven-continent system quickly gained acceptance throughout the United States.
It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time, which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the "Old World" continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
From: Lewis, M., & Wigen, K. (1997). The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. University of California Press. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
USA is NOT America(Canada)
No, in this case [Amerika Syarikat - in the language of Malay!]
The continent is Malay is just Amerika and Syarikat is the equivalent of United States.
So in Malay it means something like Federation of America.
Second there is only one continent of America. The Americas as for most of the language is a cultural/economical division of America. For example "Las Américas" in spanish is the distincition of Latin America vs Northen America. In English it is used to reinforce the idea and justify the US = America.
And people been taught wrong is very common, an example of that is the mythical "Food Pyramid". Evedince of that is the that US is one of the most obese countries. It is not surprise that the US was one of the earliest -not the earliest, one of the earliest- to introduce the Food Pyramid to the world. It is also not a surprise that it affected and still affects the food industry.
Lol, according to your 1st 3 sentences, you cannot say that I am wrong because I have translated the English word America to the Malay language in Microsoft Word. It clearly said, the way you spell America in Malay is Amerika Syarikat! If you do not want to believe me, then how about you open up Microsoft Word right now and translate America from English to Malay and find out what it says for yourself! It never said just Amerika when I pressed translate.
Before you tell me anything else next, you better do as I suggested first! Period.
It has nothing to do with spelling, simply Microsoft Word most of the time just translate America as the US. You can try searching for América and it will give you the same result, why? Because Microsoft Word and Google Translator will translate every variaton of America as the US. Even in Spanish the second and third result are Estados Unidos and EEUU, which is not correct because the official dictionary only have one meaning and it is for the continent.
In Malay:
Amerika = America
Amerika Syarikat = United States of America
Benua America = The Americas or continent of America
As you said, “Second there is only one continent of America.” … I can say you are HALF right and wrong because there will never be a Worldwide agreement for the exact number of continents existing in the world!
So this remains very simple: America is BOTH 1 Continent and 2 Continents and NEVER will exist as 1 country only! The Americas (the plural) and Pan America are just 2 other ways of referring to AMERICA (the singular) which is the name of the NEW WORLD!
The plural will NEVER disappear away from the Singular and NEVER will make a difference. The Americas and America changes nothing because BOTH of them are always referring to ALL 35 COUNTRIES of the New World!
Side Note: I personally am FOREVER seeing and counting America as BOTH 1 Continent and 2 Continents everyday of my life!
It shouldn’t even be a big deal to everybody all around the world … to view a total number of 7 continents at the maximum and 4 continents at the minimum of planet Earth, period!
There are not 7 continents it is just wrong and I explained why already. If for you North America is a continent the West Europa and North Africa are also continents. There are 6 or 4 continents not seven, not eight, not 9. Even worse it is to categorize Central Americans with North America which they hate specially if you are aware of the current new and the inmigration problem that the US has brought to Central America.
America is not two continents and Australia is not a continent neither.
I also already told you that "The Americas" in English language is the justification fot them using America as their name. And if you support that then the whole purpose of the site is in vain.
Evidence of that is the entirety of internet. If you want examples I will give you.
If America are two continents then we should leave America to them, simply as that.
You are wrong. I NEVER view West Europe and North Africa as continents as I do North America and South America.
No country ever views a greater number of continents higher than 7 or a lesser number of continents fewer than 4.
Everything in your previous message doesn’t prove anything. Especially your last sentence which would be stupid.
North and South America are continents or part of a single continent and NEVER can exist without their proper name AMERICA.
No matter what North and South America are, it doesn’t change anything (especially USA’s stupid excuse just to steal the name of the New World all to itself)!
A lot of examples coming from you are very cool but it doesn’t prove anything different between the 7 and 6 continent models. This website is NOT at all in vain being as it is telling the truth … the United States is NOT the only country of America!
If you want, both you and I can give out our examples - that is all having to do with the New World and United States!
Just let me know if you are interested, thanks!
United Statian settler-law attempts to...
Pelaez L., Alan (April 2020). Harvard University, Cambridge.
https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/interrupting-settler-futures-or-how-mi-am%C3%A1-taught-me-dream
Ehh?
The Chinese so far a winning more gold than the United Statians. Times are changing.
Here I upload a link for a google drive folder that contain a list of 118+ languages and how is US and America called in that language, it also contains counter-argument for fallacies, and a list of legal docs like passports (for evidence that the US is the only country that doesn't have a nationality in its passport. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tfL_2YvcWwZnlY2yh3CQ2uGqX6ktGb3H?usp=sharing
Hi! I have opened up Microsoft Word, went to the Review tab and then pressed on Translate. I pressed Translate Selection, said From English and then went through all languages in the 'To' section! So America is (spelled) …
America - in the languages of English, Hmong Daw, Italian, Latvian, Romanian and Welsh!
Ameerika - in the language of Estonian!
Amèrica - in the language of Catalan!
América - in the languages of Portuguese and Spanish!
Amerik - in the language of Haitian Creole!
Ameríka - in the language of Icelandic!
Amerîka - in the language of Kurdish (Northern)!
Amerika Syarikat - in the language of Malay!
Amerikë - in the language of Albanian!
Amerikka - in the language of Finnish!
Amérique - in the language of French!
Amérique du Nord - in the language of French (Canada)!
Ameryka - in the language of Polish!
'ampaS - in the language of Klingon (Latin)!
Meiriceá Meiriceá - in the language of Irish!
America is also (spelled) …
‘Amelika - in the language of Tongan!
Amerika - in the languages of Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Fijian, Filipino, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Maltese, Māori, Norwegian, Querétaro Otomi, Samoan, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Turkish and Yucatec Maya!
Amerike - in the language of Serbian (Latin)!
Amepnka (some of the letters are written a little differently) - in the languages of Bulgarian, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian!
Amepnka , Amepnka - in the language of Serbian (Cyrillic)!
Châu My (a ‘~’ is written above the ‘y’) - in the language of Vietnamese!
That is all of them according to Microsoft Word!
Be careful Amerika Syarikat is not the continent is the US. Chau My is the equivalent of "The" America's'. My is just America.
Lol, and don’t forget that ‘America’ is also not the continent but the U.S. according to the majority of English people.
As you said, “Amerika Syarikat is not the continent is the US.”, it just proves … the people of that language have given the wrong definition of “America” in their language.
I understand that “Chau My is the equivalent of "The" America's'. My is just America.” … but don’t forget “The America's” is still referring to “America” (the 1 or 2 continents). So in that language, “Chau My” are still “My” for the correct definition. Otherwise, the definition they have given for America in their language is made up of ignorance.
So tell me, what is the point of you telling me to “Be Careful” … as we tell many people every day that “The Americas” are forever “America” in English (or any language)?
David, were you born in the United States or did you become United Statian through naturalization?
I guess he is a native United Statian. I remember having read that like a year ago.
Captain America, that’s a lot of words just to tell us what we already know. Of course ‘America’ is not the official name of the country. Nobody here is arguing that it’s the official name. It’s a common name for the USA. That’s a fact too.
Is one of your “facts” that common names don’t exist? Only official names exist? Don’t be silly.
Please explain.
David, that's not many words to make a convincing argument. Which shouldn't even be an argument, debate, discussion, etc., at all. This is a simple topic that doesn't require much thought. The 'ISSUE' & SOLUTION lies in the name. Unless it's simply out of laziness and certain individuals are shortening up the U.S.A. after the word 'OF'. Then that requires NO brain power. That's where your "common name" probably comes from and the fact associated to it. Which is CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS chose/choose to do this.
AMÉRICA is NOT a common name for the United States of AMÉRICA, in AMÉRICA.
By “certain individuals” you mean the billions of people, who speak many different languages, who refer to the US as ‘America’, right?
And it’s ‘America’ in English, not ‘América’. And it’s ‘America’ without an accent mark on the Waldseemüller map.
By certain individuals I mean the ones acquire the traits I list, that's who. They put themselves in those categories when it comes down to it. In AMÉRICA, América means America & America means América in ANY language especially English here in AMÉRICA. Nothing gets lost in translation.
To counter your 'argument' of "the billions of people....", in AMÉRICA, there are over 1 billion of Americans. Around 330 million of those Americans are U.S. Citizens. Out of those 330 million, how many do you think don't classify AMÉRICA as a country and U.S. Citizens as the ONLY Americans? I wonder what the numbers would be regarding Team AMÉRICA vs the america callers. You'd might be surprised.
The one thing that I will tell you Captain America is … this David guy that said “Is one of your “facts” being that common names don’t exist? Only official names exist? Don’t be silly.” right in front of you is what I call the ANNOYING DAVID of this entire website!
He is the most annoying commenter on this site because …
1. He makes the most stupid comments!
2. He said at least 8 months ago …
“I win and you lose” or “I win the game show” or
“Accept reality and deal with it, simpletons. You lose this game show game.”
… in front of many of us! (He calls us many negative things a lot of times).
3. He never wants to accept that logic works in all languages and that America is América (the same definition - which is referring to all 35 countries of the New World - no matter what language it is that everyone speaks)!
So I will look forward to seeing you EDUCATE ANNOYING DAVID a lot!
Go Captain America Go!!! I am cheering you on!!! :D
David or Morgan or Facts are Facts is the same individual, he or she or "they" are laughingstock in this forum, this best you can do is report them.
When it come to International Sporting Events like World Cups or The Olympics, there's no team named or called 'Team America'. The only Team AMÉRICA I know of is a 1st Division futból team in Mexico and the puppets from the movie "Team America : World Police". Anyone who watched the movie and is bright enough, knows what the movie means down to the title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1mlCPMYtPk
The Red Ring represents AMÉRICA, NOT the U.S.A.
Hi Captain America!
I may be wrong but I’m assuming that you are the one from YouTube that is named “DJDIAZ001”. Is that correct?
Yes. Have we interacted in one of the comment sections?
DJ Diaz on the 1's & 2's. Tearin' up the wheels of steel. Representing the Latin Freestyle Community all the way from Detroit, Michigan. Can I assume who you might be?
Sure! Go ahead and tell me … which person do you assume I might be from YouTube?
I will give you a hint if you fail! :D
You're initials are C L?
*Your initials are C L? Not Craigslist, Haha
My initials are C L and not Craigslist! Correct!
What’s next? :D
When you become a "legal" resident of this, fake, fictitious, mythical country y'all want to call AMERICA, the "naturalization" papers DO NOT read "American Citizen". Doesn't exist. It reads "U.S. CITIZEN".
When you apply for a passport in the States, the application does NOT read "Application for American Passport". When you get that passport, you guessed it, it reads "U.S. PASSPORT". If you decide to travel to the mythical country of AMÉRICA, you might get lost and who knows, you might find the Lost Continent of Atlantis or the actual Continent of AMÉRICA.
Our military branches are NOT named the American Coast Guard, American Air Force, American Space Force, American Navy, American Marines, American Army, etc., etc.. They DON'T exist. They are the U.S. ARMY, U.S. NAVY, U.S. MARINES, etc..