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?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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Let the world know that USA should not be called America! America is one whole continent.
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Mexico planning to make a wall in America!
It would be best if that wall starts down center america.
I am sure, you know why!.
My southern Mexican wall
two walls!.
that is a very great task and would be a great job source for everybody!
United States Embassy or
Embassy Of America, same deal. What is your retardedness?, if it is an American Embassy, then it is from America.
hahaha!
in Brazil, there is no need to say that they are south americans. They are Brazilians.
That is why in Argentina I am Argentinian. It was a race problem.
For the old Hemisphere, the eastern world, I am simply another american.
In America, I am Argentinian. That's it!.
No one else has America in its name.
United States Of America
correct!
Wrong! Our continent does. So the USA is using the continent's name.
everybody knows that you are America already.
Brazil knows that you are America.
China knows that they would forever be America.
The UK, surely knows you are America.
So, there is no more to say.
my country, America. American I am
that is why we are Brazilians, in the new world we are still Brazilians.
Our race, Brazilian too.
For the other hemisphere, we are Brazilians too.
There is only one county bearing the name America.
That country,:
United States Of America.
Like it or not, just one America, no more than one, you stupid idiot, yes you are an idiot.
The name of the country could be written by "U.S. America", always with U.S. forward or "United States" but not just "America"
It can be written as just America. It very often is written as just America. Welcome to reality.
In English "American" also means "of the Americas or the continent of America" as evidenced by the existence of the Organization of AMERICAN States. Therefore the name of the citizens of the United States must be better defined and not left in ambiguity. U-S-American seems to me a very appropriate for it, since United Statian or U-S-ian sounds bad to most of them.
It’s not ambiguous because only one nationality uses the word ‘American’. So, obviously, when nationality is being discussed and ‘American’ is used, it only means one thing—US citizen. The fact that it only means one thing indicates that, by definition, there is no ambiguity. Stop pretending.
Who else is more American than the people Of America?
No one else. That's it.