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America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.
Ahem. It's TWO continents.
Do you have a good source on that? Every school book and college book I've ever checked, plus Encarta and Wikipedia, explicitly state that it is one continent.
Wikipedia
A continent could be a single landmass or a part of a very large landmass, as in the case of Asia or Europe. Due to this, the number of continents varies; up to seven or as few as four geographical regions are commonly regarded as continents.
Oh, varied local interpretations, a pretty fair point. I wish most of them were more consistent tho.
I'll bid 3
Okay name all threee
Depends on the model
Tell that to everyone else that refers to us as "Americans," we're far from the only people to do it.
I'm willing to excuse their faults. They mostly do it out of the consequences of colonialism and cultural appropriation. That's just as much as saying they do it because of the barrel of a gun.
That said most proposals I've seen on the subject are... silly or unwirldy. I'm not gonna call people from the US "estadounidense" (looooong) or "USAmerican" (uppercases) unless they tell me they're OK with it. I'd be fine with otherwise distinguising eg.: something like "American" vs "Américan", since English has been fine with diacritics for a good while of centuries already (née, naïve, blasé, etc).
Just call em Amerikkkans.
Gotta learn to roll your K's
Does it fall somewhere between a stutter and the 'ke ke ke' of my manga reading youth?
Are you implying we do it out of hubris and everyone else is somehow gaslit into it or forced to?
Implying? Nah, nah. Just describing History.
Like, come on. I'm a citizen of a country that the US literally coup'd.
What about a coup forced you to refer to us as "americans"?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_State
I personally alternate between US citizens and US Americans
I like them as well, in particular the former because it clears ambiguity better when used in a list; I just would like more if there was a oneword.