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I know these may sound like stupid question but we need to think about it when we call our selves Americans only if we live in the USA. The name is United States OF America.

2006-10-16 06:59:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Immigration

12 answers

The US belongs to the AMERICAS, because we do have North America, Central America and South America. In this case it belongs to North America.

2006-10-16 07:02:19 · answer #1 · answered by nona 3 · 3 0

US belong to America because America includes 2 continents - South and North America and the US is situated just in North America

2006-10-16 14:09:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

The US belongs to America

2006-10-16 14:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Referring to people from the US as Americans is simply a convention to avoid awkward language. "United Stater" doesn't exactly flow off the tongue. People from the US have been known as Americans since before the country was founded and the usage is so common that I've never heard of it causing confusion anywhere. People only complain about it when they're trying to make some political statement.

2006-10-16 14:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by Perk1973 3 · 0 0

America belongs to USA. We dont control anything here unless its the government. People dont even realize that we dont even have freedom of speech any more. We cant say anything without the government saying something or even citizens of America. People protest against anything these days.

Prime example: Bully the new ps2 game. People are protesting against this and its just a video game. Saying that it sets bad example for children because of the schools already going through so much violence now.

Where was everyone when grand theft auto came out? A little boy even said that the reason he killed kids at his school was because of that game. The game trained him...his exact words.

hmmmmmmm...makes you think

2006-10-16 14:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by yagurlbubblez 3 · 0 2

for me America is only one continent, not 2 or 3, but I would like to know the historical roots about The US calling itself America when that is the name of the continent and about why you dont have a name like everyone else, do you guys know where can I find that info?

2006-10-16 14:22:13 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 2 · 0 0

good question... I think the way we call ourselves simply the "American" is from, just like you said, the shortening of the "United States of America".

So I think, rather than "belonging to something", they mean the same thing.

2006-10-16 14:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by davegesprek 1 · 1 1

Americans Are this country. We the pepole ARE America. We make it what it is.

2006-10-16 15:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by Angel of Man 4 · 0 0

You are right, its a stupid question.

2006-10-16 14:09:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

We are one and the same.

2006-10-16 14:07:48 · answer #10 · answered by Dianne 4 · 0 0

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