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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David why are you so focused on Parias again? If you want to make a point that it was called like that in maps why is it that the United States didn't call itself "United States of Parias"?
I am surprised that no one thinks "how ridiculous, to declare South America and North America as continents so that the demonym American IN ITS LANGUAGE is a nationality, leave them! Anyway it is in their language, very ridiculous! haha!" but no, I hope it is not our inferiority complex. For me they are just one more country in the world.
That's ***** Fabian. So it is OK for you to insult United Statians in Spanish, only because it is your language?
David you agreed that America is the one continent why do you call it the Americas?
Dishonesty?
David x 3 x 3 x 2
Please provide links to the facts that prove that Schöner is wrong about how the Americas were then perceived. Also, I would really like to see the 1507 Waldseemüller map where North America is not labeled as ‘Parias’. Please provide a link. Thanks for your stellar research and analysis.
You continue calling America, "The Americas" and yet you have confessed that you do accept that the name was given to a continent and that is still the name of a continent.
How about this Ortelius map of 1579? https://www.etsy.com/il-en/listing/704583496/map-of-americas-digital-download-abraham
Why do you deny Parias?
I don't deny that that was supposed to be written there however, I don't agree that it was a name to name a continent or so as it was with America. There were many places along the new lands which had some kind of names which the natives or the cartographers wrote on maps. Usually they would write "Terra Incognita" also where they didn't have much info about that place in the same new world. Parias was just a local name they wrote in a supposed island that later was to have been part of the landmass of America.
"The island of Parias, which is not a part or portion of the foregoing [America] but a large, special part of the fourth part of the world"
Schöner is wrong? You know more about it than he did? Please. Give us a break.
Oh, so if you support Schoners' interpretation why is it that you also agree that America is the whole continent? That Parias is not the name of the North side of this continent? What Happened? Do you think that maybe Schoner might had been wrong at some point? I am not saying he was, but that his idea did not really go with what happened later with the name encompassing the entire landmass and was accepted as the one continent of America?
Doesn't it occur to you that perhaps that the person who mapped that area of North of America found that that was the name the natives called that area and decided to write it on his writtings/maps and later this map was picked up by Gymnasium's owners and put it together with other maps such as those from Vespucci and Columbus and others which later were used to come up with the 1507 map? The name of the landmass the fourth part of the world thus the continent was given as America, other parts of these new lands had names as well. There were many navigators and cartographers around the time of discovery and after too, so things were being studied by the men in the gymnasium at St. Die to be able to make up the map that they made.
You don’t know more about the map than Waldseemüller, Ringmann, and Schöner. Also, you have posted so many factual inaccuracies, you have denied so many facts, and you have told so many lies, that nobody in their right mind would believe your BS. Nice try.
As someone who is South American born, yes please. The United Statians have stolen everything, even our identity as Americans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/b3wxcj/why_i_think_we_should_call_the_us_the_united/
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jejej ese tipo parece que no tiene trabajo, novia, familia, ni nada qué hacer =D
Now he votes in batches!
“The name for the northern land mass, Parias, is derived from a passage in the Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci....”
“Parias was described by Waldseemüller's follower, Johannes Schöner as: "The island of Parias, which is not a part or portion of the foregoing [America] but a large, special part of the fourth part of the world", indicating uncertainty as to its situation.”
“PARIAS and AMERICA, corresponding to North and South America, are separated by a strait in the region of the present Panama on the main map but on the miniature map inset into the upper-mid part of the main map the isthmus joining the two is unbroken, apparently demonstrating Waldseemüller's willingness to represent alternative solutions to a question yet unanswered.”
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Waldseemüller_map