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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Comments (1311)
America never fought against Vietnam. It was only the United States... and they lost.
Apologize, because I extract that excerpt directly from the book and because it has its link protected I forgot to generate a cite for it. And every other time I posted something I also post it with a link. So it is better for you to apologize and stop the slander. I hope everyone see this and report you for disrespecting and slandering. Learn how to respect others and don't rush things in a condescending way. There is no indication nor intention by me of plagiarizing the excerpt. You are not bright nor aren't you? You are just arrogant and haughty. Once more time: A P O L O G I Z E.
Plagiarist
Illegal to post a link to The New York Times that I found through a Google search? Wow. You are not very bright, are you?
Yeah, it is a book that isn't in public domain yet, the book has 350+ pages and you can buy it on amazon kindle as I did. Not only an excerpt that probably was given permission to publish.
So, don't bluff about if I have plagiarized the excerpt.
Not everyone had posted the citations for the quotes they post. If you want them, the ask for them in a respectful manner. Don't start slandering in such condescending way.
It is better for you to apologize. So apologize.
Who says America lost the war in Vietnam?
Lol, that is only written as an example showing how you should state the name of the country USA … as if that kind of statement became real history according to the United States. But that doesn’t mean it is a fact. United States may not have been in a war with Vietnam after all. Just saying!
Andy, you should provide a link when you take quotes from the writing of others. Plagiarism isn’t cool.
I am not plagiarizing anything, simply some links are protected. Where is the intention of plagiarize?
Andy, you need to learn how to internet.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lewis-myth.html
Yeah, that is not very legal. My ip address is exposed for repercussion because of piracy. If you found it by piracy, well congratulations.
I haven’t heard of the word “ Plagiarism” before. I wonder if it is related to the word “Plague”.
Remember: by your own words "Plagiarism isn’t cool."
You don’t know what plagiarism is.
Not for the Squeamish - We Are United Statians
https://caseythornton.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/we-are-united-statians/
Hi Victoria!
The Bad News is: Casey Thornton (the author) has deleted their beautiful article titled “We Are United Statians” that they have ever written concerning “an appropriate national demonym” for United States (OF America). 👎
I (especially) don’t understand why they would delete their own article that was necessary to learn and know about (according to their experience). 🙁
It is hard to understand what you mean when you write "American", Andy. Your sentences sometimes don't make much sense.
It is not my fault that the book used "American", I just copied it excatly how it was written.
For the ones that one it.
Lewis, M., & Wigen, K. (1997). The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. University of California Press. Retrieved May 11, 2021.
And for the other comment about why Latin America perform so badly, PISA test are not objective and like many have pointed out, rigged. No wonder why the test is only in English and French. However this is not a justification nor a excuse that in Latin America there isn't a big incentive for students nor a good investment in the education environment, however the material that is taught is actually excellent or decent in some cases like Chile, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, etc.
I don't know why my comments about being wrongfully taught were downvoted, it is just hypocrisy. Why all the languages or countries or whatever, taught the 5 oceans and the 7 seas, but coincidentally a country has America in its name and suddenly America being two continents is alright?
"En Hecho(Djibouti)says...
All of humanity doesn’t have to see things your way. How can you expect others to respect your definitions when you don’t respect theirs?"
I disagree with that kind of arguing. In the end it just end being hypocrisy. It is respecting that everyone can have an opinion not the opinion itself.
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.
In the 1960s, during the heyday of geography's "quantitative revolution," the scheme received a new form of scientific legitimization from a scholar who set out to calculate, through rigorous mathematical equations, the exact number of the world's continents. Interestingly enough, the answer he came up with conformed almost precisely to the conventional list: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Australia plus New Zealand), Africa, and Antarctica.
While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. 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.
Paradoxically, almost as soon as the now-conventional seven-part continental system emerged in its present form, it began to be abandoned by those who had most at stake in its
11propagation: professional geographers. Whereas almost all American university-level global geography textbooks before World War II reflected continental divisions, by the 1950s most were structured around "world regions" (discussed in chapter 6). Yet the older continental divisions have persisted tenaciously in the popular press, in elementary curricula, in reference works, and even in the terminology of world regions themselves. Anyone curious about the contemporary status of the continental scheme need only glance through the shelves of cartographic games and products designed for children.