willshak once said:
> Don Schmidt wrote the following:
>> When using the word, Americans, it would include all of the countries
>> in North and South America. Therefore it would be correct to include
>> Spanish and Portuguese.
>
> But we are the only country in North, Central, and South America that
> has 'America' as part of its name. "The United States of America" is the
> official name.
> I don't know if we were responsible for shortening the name to just
> America, but I suspect that it was everybody else.

That's true. Americans are citizens of the USA, not to be confused with
other North Americans, South Americans, Latin Americans, or Central
Americans. Native Americans, however, are also Americans, as are all
hyphenated-Americans, but not dashed. :-)

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