Yes we understand we're not all of America, we get this, we understand there is a completely separate continent called South America that shares part of name. But guess what? When someone says "America" or calls themselves an "American" most people understand that they are referring to the United States of America this is just the connotation the word holds now.
Mostly because citizens of the U.S.A. have a hard time of it when it comes to calling them such. "Citizen of the U.S." is too unwieldy. United Statesian? That just sounds retarded. So people gravitate towards the more easily modified word of America changing it to American. They are not claiming all of the North and South American continents and neither are they claiming the word as only applying to them. Usually if you claim to be American (and are from one of the myriad of other countries therein) to a citizen of the United States they'll be confused for a bit but they'll accept it completely because yeah that's what the word means. It just has a common connotation to the U.S. However there are some asshats who insist that just because I'm from Peru it means I'm not "American" which can be annoying but most people from the U.S. aren't dicks about it.
Mostly because citizens of the U.S.A. have a hard time of it when it comes to calling them such. "Citizen of the U.S." is too unwieldy. United Statesian? That just sounds retarded. So people gravitate towards the more easily modified word of America changing it to American. They are not claiming all of the North and South American continents and neither are they claiming the word as only applying to them. Usually if you claim to be American (and are from one of the myriad of other countries therein) to a citizen of the United States they'll be confused for a bit but they'll accept it completely because yeah that's what the word means. It just has a common connotation to the U.S. However there are some asshats who insist that just because I'm from Peru it means I'm not "American" which can be annoying but most people from the U.S. aren't dicks about it.
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