America vs USA Naming

Only people from US think in America as synonymous with USA

Can confirm. Eastern european here. America refers to the US of A. If we want to be explicit about the other america we say South America.

(I'm a canadian citizen, born in South America)My two cents is US people are the ones who have an unusual take on the word "America". Outside the US, it's not very idiomatic to call the country "America", or even "USA". "US" is more common (and in both Spanish and Portuguese, it's almost always called "Estados Unidos").The term "american" is mainstream both in Canada and elsewhere. I imagine that's probably at

Just call them USians. When I say 'americans' I often talk about north Americans, I use USians to disambiguate.

That lil obsession you all have of calling usa America

I refer to USA as that and its people as USAmerican or USian variously. America is a continent and whilst a good deal of North America is USA plenty isn't.USA is a terrible name, it could equally apply to any country, Canada say, in the American continent formed from multiple states.It is wrong to call societies only for USAmericans "The American ...". The whole thing supports the idea that the only Americans worth bothering with are USian, it's extremely pompous

Strange religion ;)But people refer to the USA as “America” even though Canada and Mexico are also in “North America” and all the countries in South America exist also.Even so, nobody would refer to someone from those countries as “American”.

America is a continent, you mean US. mixing both is rude to millions of non US Americans.

FYI: peoples of many, many countries of North and South America consider themselves to be "Americans", being from one of the "Americas".When referring to a particular country, for global clarity I recommend using that actual country's proper name - e.g. "the USA".

I've seen it occasionally used to refer to Americans, because technically speaking, any citizen of any country of North or South America is an "American", and yet citizens of the USA don't recognize this.To many, the implicit assumption that USA strictly equals America and vice versa is just another artifact of the arrogance built into US culture.