A demonym is a name given to natives or residents of a certain or specific place.

Which Amercans was Christopher Columbus referring to? So then, I assume that you understand that “fuck” – and “friggin'” by extension – has more than this one common meaning. Have a great day, American from the United States.

I never want to hear another complaint about America as a name for my country until you have an alternative name that is easy to say. NO, Correct name is: United Arabs Emirates. Lack of respect ignoring Central and South American Citizens, also no matter what diccionaries said are wrong. The word amerikkalaiset (literally Americans) is actually never used, not in conncetion with North Americans, South Americans, or Central Americans for that matter.
This American moniker dispute has really picked up some momentum in the last decade, especially. And I don’t have a solution; United States of America IS the official name, after all (lame, arrogant and unoriginal, maybe, but official) and I don’t see a name-change happening any time soon, so the rest of us unofficial “Americans” will just have to live with it. I know we are pretty small and Sounds great. I’ve been having a really rough time having to deal with people that name the country this way without even knowing if it is or not fine to do it. You are making a big mess with the term “United States”. Not stupid or unintelligent; they just don’t know any better. There is much less fault to be found in the full name of the USA, but it is the demonym that draws ire in others. My suggestion: stop harassing individual Americans who are often the kind of American we need more of, and take it up with the UN. The term America was born in 1500 when Americo Vespucio first drew a map of the continent, THE WHOLE CONTINENT, not just the US. “The unique part of the United States of America is America, so it became the root of the demonym; there’s no other country with that word within its name.”.

Thanks Christian for your answer and ideas.

but, they are wrong because we all who live in the whole continent are American. Take the land, take the identity, and take the name. Curious, why aren’t individuals from Brazil, Argentina, Panama, etc. But the proper grammar in Spanish has always been “estadounidense”. We put up with a lot of open season on our homeland for things that occurred before we were born, and we almost always let it pass without comment or give sympathy and agreement. It's clear it refers to us. It’s not the fact that US Citizens call themselves Americans what bothers me personally.

Is not American United States, is United States “OF” America, this means that the federation of states belong to something, might be the continent. There is no continent named America. 2- It is not true that for most countries in the world America is no longer a continent, for the vast majority of countries in America (The Americas for you) and Europe, and some of the other continents, South America and North America are for the least "subcontinents" that when named together do so with the word America (although in many of those countries on other continents they use the word for the continent and the country alike, and the same for American). “The Americas” distinction makes absolutely no sense, as the U.S.A. also qualifies as an element in the group “Americas.” Think of the semantic absurdity of saying something like “Central Americans have no business coming into America, they should go back to their home in Central America.”. There is no country named America, the United States, irrespective of the fact that U.S. nationals covet the name of the continent, is not America. That is true up to a certain point, see, we Central Americans do not consider ourselves a part of North America and much less of the Caribbean; to us Central America is a political concept and a geographical unity, the Federal Republic of Central America (1820-1840), to us there is only one American continent divided into four parts, North, South, Central and Caribbean; we do not say “the Americas” only America. When I lived in Mexico in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Mexicans definitely did not have a problem with “estadounidense”. Outstanding reply Nari.

There’s my answer. Let’s add a word the the description of this country. What does Mexico have to do with this argument? But in South America is popular the classification where there is only one America with three subdivisions called North, Central and South America. The issue here is that tecnically anyone born in America is an american, just like anyone born in Europe is european and so on. The correct name for “USA” is United States of ..(nothing?) ", "The State of Illinois - An Introduction to the Prairie State from", "The State of Kansas - An Introduction to the Sunflower State from", Corncracker, - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 2, Section 35: Designation of citizens of commonwealth", "The State of Michigan - An Introduction to the Great Lakes State from", "The State of New Hampshire - An Introduction to the Granite State from", "What's in a Name?

By ancestry, I am Mexican. However, I do live here, and I appreciate this country even when they are wrong on this term. Nobody outside the western hemisphere would consider someone from South or Central America as ‘American’, although they are technically from one of the Americas. Álvaro, thanks for stopping by! I wasn’t trying to teach history but I thought it an interesting fact that Hamilton referred to the “American possessions” of Spain in 1788, referring to colonies in Latin America. Among European languages/denominations of venues in the American Continent, Spanish language/denominations should allways prevail because the Kingdom of Spain arrived in America well before England.

And of course, if the dictionaries use the first historical reference of use of words to enter the meaning in their publication, then I think “Earthling – One from Canada, of America” should become the Oxford Dictionary’s newest variant as this BBC response should, hopefully, be published. If you look at a map, any map, it will especificaly refer to America as a continent, never as a country. Well, many people don’t realize this, but Mexico’s official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, which translates to United States of Mexico or the United Mexican States. But this is not one of them. By the dat you can clearly see that this fact predates the foundation of the US as well the the exploration of the nothern hemisphere of America. Canadians have no issue with not being included as ‘American’ although its land mass is larger than the US within North America. Get yourself an education. Many people in Latin America call Americans “americanos”, but most educated people call them “estadounidenses”, which is the proper term in Spanish for people born in the U.S.A. and not elsewhere in the American continent. That might have confused some people if the present claim existed back then, but never mind.

The fact is, the USA is too proud to copy anything coming out of Latín America. Only in the English speaking countries and their ex-colonies are using the 7 continent model. I would briefly like to express very clearly that Mexicans in their vast majority have no issues AT ALL with the term ‘Estadounidense’, and I’d wager you would be given a really confused look and then be laughed at for being absurd. Why ? If their colonies were in the new world called “AMERICA” they decide to call it AMERICA (disregarding the rest of the continent). DIPR, Don’t understand what you don’t get about the sovereign countries. The first church. The continent was named America as a landmass not as any geologically thing or any plates perse. At least here, in Germany, America is a continent. The Americans living abroad (as I do, also a dual citizen of Sweden) are often some of the least arrogant, most international thinking people around. Furthermore, the term was not picked by citizens of the USA to begin with, but rather the USA’s mother country/national enemy at the time, Great Britain, and so this should not be an example of American ignorance or arrogance.

a person from the Republic of Colombia is “Colombian.” Not a “Republican.” I don't mind to be called United Statian. As such, we put up with quite a bit more based upon stereotypes than many other expats. Never White Enough Land You don’t have the right to. Carlos, thanks for stopping by! However, I would be glad if you measure your words when commenting on public sites. However when Vespucci found America he figured out it was a mistake, so we can all stop calling Native Americans Indians, as real Indians are from the country known as India. The term “Americano” was frown upon and still is. I would think you could only technically hyphenate if you were born elsewhere…such as Irish American if you were an American citizen born in Ireland. a person from the country of Georgia is “Georgian.” Now, US citizens looove to call all Europeans, Europeans, as opposed to their specific country demonym (French, Italian, German, etc.)

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