Why are people from the United States called Americans? The Americas, N,C and south home many nations.?

Answer 1

Ok sweetie, first of all ignore the ignorants, they are partially right but they still don't know how to answer the question. Ok here we go.

Amerigo Vespucci or Américo Vespucio in spanish (see the relationship?) was an italian explorer that in 1501 arrived in what now is Guyana (North of "South" América) he sailed through the Amazona River and ended up in Patagonia (The very south of the American Continent).

Américo was the first European that realized that this was a new CONTINENT instead of Asia (What they thought at the begining, that's why we call our natives Indians because that was the destination of Columbus). The news spreaded rapidly over Europe and in 1507 a publication of a map made by the German Martin Waldseemüller using the description given by amerigo (Américo) showed the new land name as AMERICUS (In Latin) or América (Spanish because Americo was with the Spanish explorers) in honor of Americo.

The actual concept of América is the name of what people call North Central and South America which at the end and technically AND CORRECTLY speaking is the name of the whole land that starts in Canada and ends in Argentina. Back then, and, some countries now call americans refering to all people of the new continent (Not only the USA).

Now in the USA, This country was called in honor to that name and also was the first country that became independent from a European authority.

Being called United States of America means States unified in a land called America which means in some kind of selfish and honorable way that the name of USA is America.

The only thing I ask you to do is please know and spread the word because there's people that really don't know how they became what they are, and yes, you can and should refer to American or americans to all people in the new continent and the nationality of the USA citizens, but you have to explain when you mean which one. To finish my answer is that everybody that know the difference and knows how to explain it is right and everybody in this WHOLE CONTINENT is an AMERICAN, the north, central and south definitions came after.

Thanks for letting me finally explain this to everybody. It took me a long time to figure the why's and the how's (I was born in the USA but raised in Venezuela so it helped expand my mind and knowledge).

Tootles

Answer 2

Well ... there are the American Continents in which all the encompassed nations are in the Americas. I can think - offhand of only one that has the word "America" in the official name of the country. So, it is quite easy to see why people quickly fell into the common name of Americans for the people of the United States and to by default refer to the country as America. It is alot easier to write a song about America than it is to write one with the words "United States of America". Mexico's offical name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. One should, if referring to the continents, be clear the discussion is about the continents of the Americas and not some specific country.

Answer 3

Why did you leave out the word America from the name when you asked your question?
The country is called the United States of America.
Rather than call it's citizens United States of Americans ... You and others around the world take the lazy way out and just refer to the citizens on the USA as Americans.

Amanda it would be very unfair to the citizens of the United States of Mexico if USA took the name "Staters"

And I'm pretty sure you simply refer to the citizens of the United States of Mexico as "Mexicans" ...don't you?

Answer 4

It sounds much less like hypocrisy and extra like basically uncomplicated utilization is to no longer say 3 or 4 words for the call of a rustic if it is user-friendly to assert a million or 2 and be understood. the version is that the call "Mexico" so some distance as i comprehend does not additionally propose yet another section besides the country Estados Unidos Méxicanos. So it truly is user-friendly to call it Mexico. this is the common way, to flow away out the fewer particular words of an sturdy call. yet contained while it comes to the country if people shorten it that way, it truly is the information "América" which additionally potential the entire hemisphere, or maybe though it truly is known to point u . s . a ., many people from different international locations interior the hemisphere do unlike that, seeing it as a linguistic version of the country's hegemony. So in the event that they dont decide to ought to assert the entire sturdy call los Estados Unidos de América every time they communicate over with it, they say los Estados Unidos.

Answer 5

Because we live in the United States of AMERICA. Key word being America. No other country on the American continents have America in their name. That is why.

Answer 6

Yes, but out of all those nations the United States is the strongest. The title comes with our supremacy.

Answer 7

In college, I had a roommate from Bolivia. He had the same question. He said that he, as a Bolivian, was also an American and that many Latin Americans felt that we (from the U.S.) were arrogant for calling ourselves Americans.

How about a contest to rename ourselves?
Yahoo will give 100 points to the winner - as voted upon by us !

Answer 8

I suspect that it is less complicated than saying a phrase that encompasses the entire name of the country.
I believe that Mexico is called the Mexican States of America.
America was named after an explorer named Amerigo Vespucci.

Answer 9

Because the country is called United States of AMERICA.

A-M-E-R-I-C-A

"American" is derived from "America".

Get it? Somewhate bizarre, isn't it? Heck, it might even be more bizarre than calling a person from Italy an "Italian", or a person for Germany a "German".

Answer 10

Because we're lazy and elitest. The majority wouldn't accept the designation "Staters", which is probably more accurete. I do feel sorry for the Canadians, Mexicans, and assorted South Americans, though... (Yes, I am, sadly, a "Stater".)