why people from U.S called theirselves americans??

Question

US is not america america is from chile to canada so everyone is an american no just people from US

Answer 1

I'm from Canada, and I have always wondered that. I am in North America, I should be able to call myself an American. I guess it's more of a pompous attitude, like "Americans" think that that they should be called that exclusively.

But I don't think any one piece of land belongs to anybody.

Answer 2

The Explorer For Whom America Was Named
Amerigo Vespucci will long be remembered as the man America was named after.Within a few years, Waldseemüller changed his mind about the name for the New World but it was too late. The name America had stuck. The power of the printed word was too powerful to take back. Gerardus Mercator's world map of 1538 was the first to include North America and South America. Thus, continents named for a Italian navigator would live on forever.

Answer 3

I'm sorry, but your logic is a little twisted. The United States is part of the North American continent. I've never heard the logic that North America only consists of the United States. No one I've ever known thinks that. The great majority of people living in the United States are aware that we have neighbors on this continent.

The US is not America? I'm learning SO many new things today! Another poster just said black people aren't American. Between the two of you, I've lost my citizenship and I do not live in America.

My understanding is that the vast majority of people who live in Canada call themselves 'Canadians'. I've never heard anyone who lives in North America refer to themselves as North American, but by the specific country they live in, not the specific continent.

But, I have to go now - I seem to have lost my citizenship and I don't know where the HECK I live! : /

Answer 4

I don't think this is even really a question worth asking at all. Call yourself what you like and call us Americans what you like. For the people in Canada, etc, call yourself NORTH Americans. That is a very simple solution. The same could be said for SOUTH American. Why is this even an issue? As long as humans continue to label each other in order to differentiate, we will be able to ask these sort of redundant questions. The real question should be "Why can't we all just call each other human?" We are after all, merely that.

Answer 5

It's a name we have been called by other countries for a long time and it has stuck, therefore when people refer to Americans they mean citizens of the United States.

Answer 6

Canada, Canadian
Mexico, Mexican
Chile, Chilean
United States of America, American

Seems simple enough.
The United States of America was a white Christian nation tolerant, accepting and supportive of all religions, races, creeds. Then the social reconstructionists of the 60's destroyed the infrasructure of this great country with their division in the name of diversity over unification. Now we are becoming tribal, fractured, and weak instead of unified and strong. Enough with the political correct idiocy. We, people of the USA, are Americans. Deal with it!

Answer 7

USA is United States of America, so we call it America for short, and we call ourselves Americans. What alternative would you suggest? "A citizen of the United States?" I would like to hear a better adjective for someone who lives in the USA.

Answer 8

Actually, I think this is a good question and no one should take offence by it. I'm from the United States and have often wondered why we don't have a specific adjective for our nationality. Every one else in the world seems to. People from Brazil call themselves Brazilians, people from Chile call themselves Chileans, people from Canada call themselves Canadians. No one in Europe calls themselves Europeans, but Italians, French, German, etc. People for the US seem to be the only ones who identify their nationality with their entire continent...

Old Man - I beg to differ there. The Italian language has a specific adjective for people from the US: they are called "Stanunitensi".

Answer 9

Well, that is because we are the original country of America. WE were the first independent state in any of the Americas... So, while someone from Canada would call themselves British we were the only independent American country. Making us the only true Americans.

Answer 10

I guess the same reason people from China are Chinese. In the U.S.A. we emcompas more people of different origins who still are American Citizens