America vs The US
Right now this country's name is the United States but is also known as America.
Should this country be called America or the US?
America
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The US
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Look this is called America because this society fundemently built in good purposes. Canada is built in good intentions too but the U.S. started those systems first and they followed so we are the ideal 'America". Canada accepts that we are a better America anyways because we own a lot of the countries sports. Side: America
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America technically includes all of the Americas, which consists of the continents of North America and South America. The United States of America isn't saying that the USA is "America" alone, but is the United States of America, so I guess there could eventually be a United States of Europe or United States of Africa, but by now it would seem a bit unoriginal. It is confusing that the country is called United States, yet the people are American. Maybe we could work on that... But really, I doubt it'll change. Side: The United States
I'm pretty sure the derivative "American" is forced by conventions of grammar, much like citizens of the United Arab Emirates are just "Arabs" even though there are other Arab countries, because there's no other good way to congugate the derivative form. Side: The United States
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Actually America owns a lot. Because it would be imposssible for any country to handle the things America does. USA is the only country in the west that insures the challeges are won for the west. SO dam rite thy better be calling this country Amrerica or America won't fight for the West finnalcialy no more and America could be greedy like China. The USA is not built like those greedy basturds and we help our neighboring countries. And these countries know they have to support there "king" or we will cut off vital sevices/supplies to them. GET OVER IT PEOPLE DO YOU WANT THIS COUNTRY TO BE LIKE CHINA!!!!!!! Side: America
Well it's not like you're gunna say "I'm a North American". It's just the way it is. Like everyone calls me Jake, when it's technically Jacob. And if there is another Jacob in the room they aren't gunna call us both Jake so they call him Jacob and me Jake. hence: American is to South American as Jake is to Jacob get it? Just the way it is. Side: America
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Why are people from Holland/the Netherlands called Dutch and not "Hollandese" or "Netherlandians"? Why aren't people from the UK called "Kingdomians", etc? Why are there Danish people, but not "Denmarkians"? I'm sure the list goes on, but demonyms do not have to resemble the region that they represent. This country is the United States of America and since we are basically the most important country in this hemisphere, we typically get the demonym "American". Side: The United States
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The United States is simply a shortened version of The United States of America yet we're the only people who refer to themselves as Americans. Others would be entitled to the same distinction since we have both South and North America but they never do so. They refer to themselves by their country's name Side: The United States
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America is a continent (or two, some people separate north and south), not a country. People in Latin America (and maybe also in Canada) feel like the name of the whole continent has been hijacked by the States. It's as if the world referred to the Japanese as "Asians", and every time you say Asian you mean the Japanese... As a Brazilian, I must say I'm annoyed for having to specify "oh, I'm South American, oh, I'm Latin American..." But oh well, it's always a nice joke when I meet someone from the US and they say "I'm American." "Me too! which country?" =P Anyways, to be fair to the US, they don't really have a better choice of a name... For example, the official name of Brazil used to be "United States of Brazil", and people would call it Brazil, not USB... America is just a terrible coincidence... Anyways... I always try to say "people from the US" or refer to the country as "the States"... Side: The US
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Ha? Unfortunately, the nationality is American for the lack of a better word... I'm just saying that people from other American countries are also American... Every South-East Asian is also Asian, every Central American is also American... It's a word that, in English, can mean both a person from the US specifically or a person from any other American country... In some other languages there's a difference... In Portuguese you can call people from the US estado-unidenses, in Spanish they can be called estadounidenses, in Japanese they can be called beikokujin instead of americajin... In the English language, however, it seems like there can be no nice substitute... Do you even understand the double meaning of American?! Australian has no other meaning because Australia is a continent and a country at the same time. America, before being an abbreviation of USA, is a continent which includes other countries. Side: The US
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