is everyone one on that map(click on link) an American ...THE AMERICAS.........OR ONLY people born in the?

Question

UNITED STATES of AMERICA.....THE AMERICAS

http://www.paramedicineonline.com/central_america.jpg

Answer 1

Because the people who first settled the area now known as the US called this land America and said "we are Americans" at some point after that. Every other country has a more flexible name that they can call them selves i.e. Canada: Canadian, Mexico: Mexican, and so forth. What are we supposed to call ourselves in the USA? American is the only thing that really makes sense and since the settlers invented the word, it's only fair.

Answer 2

Technically, the people living in the other Americas are Mexican, Brasilian, Canadian, etc. The US cant do that with the name of our country, (United Statians?), so we do call ourselves American.

However, the other nations are still living in the Americas and are still American. There are two different meanings of the word.

I found definitions:
*of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas; "the American hemisphere"; "American flora and fauna"
* a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn


*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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American

Answer 3

Only citizens of the United States of America (shortened to America) are Americans.

However, I don't care what the others call themselves, only the rules of the Unites States will make you a citizen of the United States of America. If their mother named them "America" at birth and it was on their birth certificate from a different country, it would have no value in establishing rights here.

Which is what we are really talking about, isn't it? Not just the name?

Answer 4

If you're talking citizenship, that's confined to those who are bona-fide US residents....Mexico, while part of the american continent, is not part of the United States of America, and god willing, things will stay that way, because Mexico's got Problems with a capital 'P' that they need to get working on...

Answer 5

They want to be the only Americans.Crazy,huh?

Answer 6

Logistically, yes; governmentally, no.

Answer 7

Please don't spread knowledge to ignorant ppl