July 9, 200521 yr Author They should just stop saying "I'm American" and say "I'm from the US." Also, they write all these songs (America the Beautiful) that also refer to the US as America.
July 9, 200521 yr Should the all star game also feature the National league vs. the US league? :mischief
July 9, 200521 yr They should just stop saying "I'm American" and say "I'm from the US." Also, they write all these songs (America the Beautiful) that also refer to the US as America. 847632[/snapback] The Australians should just saying "I'm Australian" and say "I'm from Australia". If there are all these songs that refer to the US as America then it must be ok. O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! United States of America! United States of America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness! United States of America! United States of America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife. Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! United States of America! United States of America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine! :plain !!!! BTW who's they? Those jingoist imperialist American pigs?
July 9, 200521 yr American From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American, when used as an adjective, can mean "of the United States of America" or "of or relating to the Americas"; when used as a noun, "United States citizen", "residing in the Americas", or less frequently "American English". Immigrants to the United States are usually called first-generation Americans, regardless of their citizenship status, and their children second-generation Americans. As many people from the various nations throughout the New World consider themselves to be ?Americans?, some think the common usage of American to refer to only people from the United States should be avoided in international contexts where it might cause confusion. Some find the use of American to refer to only the United States offensive, as tending to disregard the existence of other American nations. Many in Latin America may consider it an insult if it is suggested that they are somehow less worthy of being called American than residents of the USA. In Canada, however, American tends to refer to citizens of the United States only. Referring to a Canadian citizen as American is usually considered to be an insult. In some contexts, one would specify North American, Central American, or South American when the reference is to a continent or region. Other residents of the Americas do not feel such a broad sense of identity and think of themselves as citizens of their particular country, members of an ethnic group, or belonging to some other sub-continental entity. Many alternative neologisms to American have been proposed to refer to the United States, but they have failed to garner widespread acceptance. See Alternative words for American for more information. While the use of American to refer to people and places elsewhere in the Americas was once fairly common in the United States, this use has declined in recent generations, to the point that many are uncomfortable with this usage. English speakers most commonly use American to refer to the United States only; the same is true of cognates of the word in many other languages, such as the German Amerikaner, the French Am?ricain(e), the Greek Αμε�ικανός (Amerikanos) and so on. In Spanish, American tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily the United States; English spoken in Latin America often makes this distinction as well. In Spanish, the normal term for U.S. citizens is estadounidense (literally United-Statesian). In the Iberoamerican countries, the use of americano (literally, "American") to describe a U.S. citizen could be considered culturally aggressive, because the word in Spanish habitually includes the inhabitants of the entire New World. In Portuguese, both in Portugal and Brazil, the term estadunidense is growing and it is considered more appropriate than the common term norte-americano (literally "North American"), as from a geographic view North America includes Mexico and Canada in addition to the United States.
July 9, 200521 yr Do people from South American countries really refer to themselves as American? Why would they say American when they can say Bolivian, Peruvian etc?
July 11, 200521 yr ...or we could take a page from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and call us the Americans of The United States.
July 11, 200521 yr I'm sure all those Brazilians are fuming from not being called "Residents of the Country of Brazil in America".
July 13, 200521 yr Most south american people I have spoken to about this issue usually feel that although they too are 'American', it has become acceptable for it to refer only to people from the U.S. In fact, the reason the U.S. citizens call themselves Americans was because when they gained their independence it was done with a mentality that most of the other regions would remain colonies of other nations. So as the first and they thought only independent nation of the Americas they would be the U.S of America. Americans
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