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Why do USA citizens keep calling America to their country?

That's really pretentious, does the rest of the Continent doesn't exist?

Iván

PS: Have nothing against USA or their people, on thecontrary, I lived there for a couple of years and had a great time, but taking the name of the whole continent for them is at least despective for the rest of us.

ivan_2068 wrote: Why do USA citizens keep calling America to their country? That's really pretentious, does the rest of the Continent doesn't exist? Iván PS: Have nothing against USA or their people, on thecontrary, I lived there for a couple of years and had a great time, but taking the name of the whole continent for them is at least despective for the rest of us.

Watch the Global News in the USA and see the rest of the world disappear!

ivan_2068 wrote: Why do USA citizens keep calling America to their country? That's really pretentious, does the rest of the Continent doesn't exist? Iván PS: Have nothing against USA or their people, on thecontrary, I lived there for a couple of years and had a great time, but taking the name of the whole continent for them is at least despective for the rest of us.

I don't quite understand this.  Actually the continent the USA is on.. is called North America.  Your continent is called South America last I heard.. for english speaking americans anyway.  I believe in spanish speaking S.A. its called Suramérica, and in Portuguese, its Ámérica do Sul. 

Also the name of our country is the United States of American... we are the united states on the continent of North America... so where is the confusion there?  If Canada wanted to call themselves the Canadian States of America... or if Mexico wanted to do the same thing.. .we'd have no problem with that... they are on the same continent afterall...

So if you had some country there who wanted to call themselves Los Estados Unidos de Suramérica, they wouldn't be very creative, but they could probably do that too...

So for short people call us Americans.. we are afterall.  And not to forget that most Japanese, Chinese and Koreans prefer to be called Asians these days... and thats not a bad thing either.

If you'd wanted to call yourself Americans.. you should of copyrighted the name first...