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  1. Though, America doesn't mean the USA. America is a continent, like Eurasia, and not a country. And an American is a person from the continent America. US of A literally means 'the united states of [continent] America' and not 'the united states [that are] America'. In early trade documents, the USA was titled “the united states of North America”, making it clear there never was an intention for the USA to be thought-of as America itself. Employing the misnomer of calling the US "America" and USians "Americans" to denote their nationality is a misappropriation that also feeds hubris and imperialism. Calling the US "America" is rooted in, and is, imperialism and self-aggrandization. Calling the US "America" is like if a Hitler figure called all of Europe "Germany", or if they were from Germany and called Germany "Europe". If they believe it, then they'll feel entitled to take all of it for themselves and to impose their will upon it. That same effect is at play when the US calls itself "America", and it's what is being fed when other sources refer to the US as "America". And we see it in action with all the US coups in South America and in US persons arrogantly referring to South America as the US' "backyard". The US has a population of just 335 million. But there are over 1 billion Americans. There are far more South Americans who call themselves Americans from America than there are people living in the USA - and they were called Americans before the US existed. Most countries in the world use a separate term to refer to people from the US, and don't call them Americans. Largely, throughout South America, for example, people from the US are called "estadounidenses" (which translates to United-Statesian). In Germany, many people use the term "US-Amerikaner" (which means US-American, as opposed to Canadian-American, Bolivian-American, etc). In Italy, the term "statunitense" (which, again, means United-Statesian) is often used. France, likewise, makes use of the term états-unien (United-Statesian). In Canada, in regular speech, a US citizen is typically referred to as "a US citizen", "from the US" or "from the States". https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/what-does-american-actually-mean/276999/ https://www.thisisrocio.com/blog/is-america-a-continent-or-a-country
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