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Why are people in the US refered to as "Americans?"

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: Cawchy87
Originally posted by: raildogg
Originally posted by: Cawchy87
There are many other countries in America insted of just the US. So why do only they call themselves that?
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America is a country. North America is a continent along with South America.

America = USA
Americans = USA
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North America + South America = America

America = Entire land mass + some islands the west bought.

Americans = Everyone who lives in either NA or SA.
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When referring to NA and SA together, it seems people usually refer to them as "The Americas" and not "America."

Do you call people from Russia Asians?
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Nope, I call them Russians. I correlate "asian" to those stupid annoying bastards that dump $50k into a $10k car to make them sound and look like absolute sh|t.
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Isn't Russia on the continent of Asia, though? Using the OP's logic, he should refer to them as Asians.

Sorry Nik, just realized it may have looked like my initial post was directed at you. It was intended for the OP.
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haha that's okay. 🙂 By the OP's logic, Russians SHOULD be called Asians. That's just not how the world functions.
 
Topic Title: Why are people in the US refered to as "Americans?"
Topic Summary: WTF is up with that
Created On: 12/29/2004 03:13 AM

maybe because it is the

United States of America.

America,love it or leave it,and live in Antartica. :|
 
its already been said but the official name of the country is the United States of America. No other country has America in the name. hence Americans.

Americas refers to NA and SA.
 
Because its the United States of America. What else do you want to call them? United Statesians? US-ians? US-ers? USA-ers?

Edit: Try coming up with a better name; maybe it will catch on.
 
We are called americans because we're from United States of America
AS for the other countries in the American continents they don't want to be called Americans because they want to be unique and preserve their cultural idenity anad the country's name. All countries want to be unique such as USA.
Example:
I came from a country called Moldova. If the ingnorant Ameircans call everyone who came form the eastern Europe region Russians or Ukranians when they're not russian or Ukranian, those people will be offended. A slovak or polak isn't russian and he doesn't want to be called russian. The same is with Mexicans being called Americans(like the poster of the topic suggested) or Japanese/Koreans called Chinese.🙂
 
south americans = south america dwellers
americans = north america dwellers

When ppl use Americans, its North America 99% of the time.

i.e. "Stupid Americans" doesn not refer to Peru, Brazil ...
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Nik
Achieving independence in 1776 is a farse and a lie.
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It's true! George Bush is the puppet and Tony Blair is actually pulling the strings! OMG!
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Actually, Nik is correct. We DECLARED independance in 1776. It was not achived until 1783 with the Treaty of Paris which ended the war with Great Britain.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Nik
Achieving independence in 1776 is a farse and a lie.
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It's true! George Bush is the puppet and Tony Blair is actually pulling the strings! OMG!
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Actually, Nik is correct. We DECLARED independance in 1776. It was not achived until 1783 with the Treaty of Paris which ended the war with Great Britain.
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Is that what he was referring to? The way it's worded, it sounded more to me like "We never achieved independence; we still live under tyranny."
 
Originally posted by: Jzero

Is that what he was referring to? The way it's worded, it sounded more to me like "We never achieved independence; we still live under tyranny."
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did they stop teaching history in new jersey?
 
its easier than "united staters" or "united states americans" -> so its basically a shortcut to the official name. Geographically americans would be the inhabitants of americas, otherwise would be the shortcut for the citizens of usa.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: Jzero

Is that what he was referring to? The way it's worded, it sounded more to me like "We never achieved independence; we still live under tyranny."
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did they stop teaching history in new jersey?
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No, but they did stop teaching reading comprehension in TX! 😀

I read it as a thinly veiled political dig. I thought he was saying perhaps we achieved independence from England, but we have by no means achieved independence from tyranny, it's just a different brand of tyranny.
 
Canada has Canadians
Mexico has Mexicans
Jamaica has Jamaicans
Haiti has Haitians
Brazil has Brazilians
Columbia has Columbians

United States has "united statians? usa'ers? united staters?"

Americans works fine.
 
Find somthing else to call those of us that live in the United States of America.

United Statesians of America? Our name, quite frankly, sucks.
 
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